First picture of 2011Rachel and Aaron Sheehan, celebrating the birth their daughter Leah Marie
Last picture of 2011Bracelets, representing Brett Wagner and Josh Rogers, two students killed in a car accident Christmas night.
Often when I am out trying to photograph a subject for the paper, I am asked questions:
Will you take my picture? If you had to ask, probably not.
What television station will this be on? This is a still camera, not a video camera.
Did you get my good side? Always.
What kind of camera do you have? Nikon D300S and a D2HS.
How much do those cost anyway? More than I can afford.
Will this be in the paper tomorrow? I really do not know, no really! I do not know.
And…
How many pictures did you take?
Well to answer that question I had to do a little figuring. In 2011 from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, my finger pressed the shutter button down to shoot approximately 92,012 images. Of those I chose 4,286 pictures that were captioned and inputted into our system for editors and page designers to select for the paper, as well as online use.
One interesting item that I noted gathering this information was my first and last frame of the year. The first frame I took in 2011 was of two parents, Rachel and Aaron Sheehan, celebrating the birth their daughter Leah Marie. The very last frame I took on Dec. 31 were of orange and green bracelets, representing Brett Wagner and Josh Rogers, two Lakewood Ranch High students who were killed in a car accident Christmas night.
92,012 images fly by fast, so let’s make the best of it.
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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