Just a Good Conversation

Myung J. Chun has been a photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. He started as a still photographer and then moved to videography from 2007 to 2018. Chun won an Emmy in 2011 for his work on a multimedia project about innocent victims of gang violence. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Daily News, a position he started in 1988 while attending Cal State Northridge. We talk about c...

Dr. Tiffany Herbert is the Associate Vice President for Health and Well-Being at California State University-Dominguez Hills. Herbert has been with CSUDH for 18 years, ever since she arrived on campus as a pre-doctoral psychology intern. She fell in love with the campus and its students, and was officially hired as a full-time counselor in January 2005. Over the years, Herbert has held several pos...

Chad Cordero is one of the greatest baseball players to ever wear a Cal State Fullerton uniform. For three years (01-03) he was unstoppable on the mound. He was drafted by the Expos in the 1st round (20th overall). Cordero's best season was in 2005, when he was an All-Star and won the Rolaids Relief Man Award . During the period of 2005–2007, he recorded 113 saves. He completed the 2005 season wit...

Paul Lester has been covering golf for over 50 years. He's see some of the greatest golf to ever played the game. We talk about getting into the business, he's fames father Buddy Lester, the Rat pack and jack hammers. He's book Beyond the Fairway, Timeless Images From the Lens of Golf Legendary Photographer Paul Lester, is a celebration of Pauls's gifted ability and fifty years in the industry. Ca...

Mike Greenlee and I sit down talk about MLB baseball playoffs.  We are both Dodgers fans and we discuss their game against San Diego as well as the Yankees, Albert Pujols, Angels and more. Mike is in the Cal State Fullerton Hall of Fame as he was a pitcher with a devastating slider. I've shot over 1000 MLB games and spent 4 years as the Angels team photographer. We both worked together at CSF...

Jason is a CSU, Chico alumnus in communication design and former photo editor for The Orion . He also has an MFA in photography from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Previously, he worked as a staff photographer for the Chico Enterprise-Record , where he won two first-place awards for his photos from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Among his duties are taking photos for Chico...

Cristina Salvador Klenz, a photojournalist, freelance photographer, and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism degree majoring in Photojournalism (1986). Cristina's documentary photography work on the Roma culture has been published worldwide in Aperture, Geo France, Interface magazine in Paris, and the textbook Photojourn...

Kyle Zedaker is in his fourth year as the Team Photographer for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After graduating from LSU in 2016, Kyle landed an internship with the Minnesota Vikings for a season. College came calling in May of 2017 and Kyle found himself at the University of Tennessee. After wearing orange for 15 months he moved up sunshine state to work for the Bucs. We talk about find photography, p...

Christopher Bates is a proud family man and has passionately worked in sports medicine and human performance for over a decade. He is both a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), as well as a Registered Strength & Conditioning Coach (RSCC). Bates' experiences and paradigms for excellence have led to the creation and establishment of several holistic sports medicine and athletic-performance skill d...

Dominic DiSaia is a native of Los Angeles. He once co-piloted an Italian Fighter Jet. He shares a birthdate with Albert Einstein. He drank beer from the Stanley Cup. And he was ejected from a basketball game after an altercation with Steve Urkel. Dominic loves the creative process and collaboration. He thrives on challenges. He has photographed the largest personaliti...

Being recruited as a college athlete is no easy matter, the choices you make will effect your life for ever, Hailey Pohevitz was the first in her family to go through this process. The battle scars of that experience and playing college soccer changed her forever, it turned out it made her stronger than ever. Hailey was recruited to Cal State Fullerton, for three years she was lost on the teams de...

I seat down with my mom Chris Brown and we talk about how she handled when my father Tom Brown passed away in 2001 unexpectedly. A couple years later she wrote a book about the experience and for years talked to groups about what to expect when it happens to you. 

Paul Olden is the current public address announcer for the New York Yankees at Yankees Stadium. He has been the announcer since the Yankees moved to their new ballpark in 2009. Born in Chicago, Olden moved with his family to Los Angeles  as a child. He attended Dorsey High school and Los Angeles City College. Olden was formerly a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Yankees, &n...

With two Emmy's under her belt Jaime Maggio has made a name for herself in the world of TV sports. Born in Long Island, New York, where she grew up to be an enthusiastic Mets and Giants fan with the help of her grandparents. When she was in 9th grade, she moved to California were find public speaking with the help of two insightful teachers who saw something in the young girl. She studied at the U...

Craig Bisacre is the Director of Photography for Texas A&M University Athletics, where he has been capturing the Aggies 18 Division-1 teams, focusing his lens on the impressive talents of their student-athletes, since 2019. Proud "Army Brat" developed his resiliency with 11 different military moves, including living abroad in South Korea. Bisacre graduated from George Mason Univ...

Kevin Reece is a New Yorker who found his way to LA in in 1986 and has never look back. Kevin has cover Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals and his favorite sport college football. For almost 40 years Kevin has travel the country covering sports, the early morning flights, games with pouring rain and long drives. We talk about growing up in New York in the 60's and 70's. Sneaking on to the floor...

Nathaniel S. Butler have photographed more than 35 NBA Finals as the senior official NBA photographers. Based in the New York area, Butler has been covering the New York Knicks and New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets for the NBA since 1984. Butler went to St. John’s University and began photographing basketball games at Madison Square Garden, where the team played their larger games. At MSG, he met photograp...

Everard Williams Jr. is has the look of a TV doctor and the voice for radio. He has a business degree and went to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California because he taught the bug. The photo bug. A working photographer for over 30 years Everard still has the drive and passion for his craft. Deeply curious and welling to push bounds in photography has pushed him into becoming an educat...

Luis Sinco is a photojournalist with more than 40 years of experience. His career started with small, ethnic community newspapers in Seattle and Los Angeles. In 1987, he got a job as a reporter-photographer with Copley Los Angeles Newspapers. He was a freelance photographer for four years before joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1997. Sinco was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams...

Joe Johnston’s approach to photography is grounded in an earnest desire to serve his community through the lens of his camera. His most cherished assignments have given him the opportunity to document the events that shape the human experience. In particular, he is drawn to the beauty and destructive power of nature and humankind’s relationship with the environment. Joe has received awar...

Ben Orloff finished his fifth year atop the Anteater baseball program as head coach and 10th season with the program for the 2022-23 school year. Orloffassumed the reins of UC Irvine Baseball in July of 2018 as the ninth head coach in program history. Orloff initially joined the coaching staff in 2014 as an assistant rising to associate head coach in the five years since. In his first year in...

Erik Helmstetter is a partner with Oder Investment Management, LLC. Erik’s responsibilities include portfolio management, investment plan construction and new client generation. He has been in the industry over 20 years and has previously worked at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. His experience is enhanced by his professional designations as a Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Retireme...

Scott Wilson is a Master Gardener in Colorado. As the Master Gardener at the Galileo Garden Project he managed and coordinated the garden activities for a school garden with 105 raised beds, a 42' dome greenhouse, and over 20,000 sq ft of growing space. This program educates students in gardening activities and produces thousands of pounds of healthy produce to the school district's lunch program....

Wyman Meinzer is the only official State Photographer of Texas, named so in 1997 by the Texas State Legislature and then Gov. George W. Bush, an honor he still holds today. He was raised on the League Ranch, a 27,000-acre ranch in the rolling plains of Texas. Since then, he has traveled to every corner of this great state and all points in between in search of the first and last rays of sunlight i...

James Quantz is a commercial, advertising photographer. Things have been rolling along quite nicely for James, managing to work with some amazing clients over the past twenty years. James started a YouTube channel during Covid to fill his time. He shows some great behind the scenes stuff as well how and the why he made his images. www.youtube.com/c/QuantzPhoto/featured He has a great instagram pag...