Please. Really...it's not cute or funny and nobody likes it.
If you see a pack of photographers somewhere, vying for a good shot, please be assured that we are only doing our job...getting the shot.
We will not be hiding in your bushes. We will not be hiding around the corner. We will not be hiding- anywhere.
Our credentials will be worn where you can see them and we will not shout TMZ-style questions at you.
For the most part, we will be mannerly to one another, even go out of our way to make sure that we can all cover the press conference/event/news happening to the best of our ability.
Even in the photo above, at an event that SEEMS like paparazzi should be there (the Sarasota Film Festival) we're all, for the most part, just local folks doing our jobs.
Getting the shot.
--Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
photo caption: Local freelance photographer Chip Litherland crouches to get his shot among the photographers on the red carpet at the Sarasota Film Festival at Van Wezel in 2010.--photo by Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
Grant Jefferies, a native of Palmetto and chief photographer at the Bradenton Herald, has been capturing moments in the lives of Manatee County residents for over 25 years. Images from the streets of Cuba and Haiti to the clay fields of the Little League World Series and beyond have been captured through the lenses of Jefferies' cameras. Jefferies can be found on his sailboat when his feet are not on land.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie is in her 13th year as a photojournalist at the Bradenton Herald. Through the years she has covered crimes and carnivals; feasts and floods. Her postings will vary from events in Manatee County's back yard to the work of photojournalists covering the stories of our times from around the world. 
Paul Videla has been a staff photographer with the Bradenton Herald since 2002, when he made the move from Detroit, Mich. When he's not working,
he enjoys hunting for unique LPs at the area's plethora of thrift stores and continually works to improve his baking chops(as the records spin and his dog waits for handouts).
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