Sometimes you never know what you got waiting in the camera. Surprises can be both good and not so good. As an example, you return to the office after shooting several assignments and you find that your flashcard has bit-the-dust and is totally blank, crashed, a big heart stopping nothing. A good case to shoot an assignment with two cameras!
And then there is the “wow, where did that come from” surprise. I was editing the photos of a flock of white pelicans spending the day in an East Manatee lake and came across an image that I never saw through the lens, a silhouette of a fish making its final journey down the pouch of one happy pelican.
I have taken many pelican photos through the years, but this was a new one for me. In some ways I felt sorry for the fish, capturing its final moments of flopping around, but on the other hand, pass the tarter sauce.
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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