Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jeff Locke rolls a baseball over the back of his hand during a recent workout at Pirate City.
Yes, baseball season, the Great American Sport. For me it’s one of the most difficult sporting events to photograph. Not knowing when, or if, the batter is actually going to hit the ball, much less where.
The tendency to have long periods of boredom, followed by brief moments of action, leaves my brain fighting to return from drifting around in another universe. Keeping my attention on the game can be a life-saving activity, for I know there are laser guided foul baseballs that have me as their target.
But that is one of the great challenges of the game -- keeping the eye on the ball is good for the batter and photographer.
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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