The Iowa Photo

The Gazette’s Savannah Blake writes about capturing the electric energy of the CyHawk football game last weekend.

A photo assignment in a dark room offered The Gazette’s Elizabeth Wood an opportunity to photograph silhouettes.

The Gazette’s Savannah Blake finds just the right angle to photograph a local man who keeps biking to fight the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

When photojournalist Nick Rohlman, of The Gazette, ventured down into Iowa City’s beer caves, he found a light that made him contemplate “the parallels between photography, journalism, and the casting of shadows”.

Elizabeth Wood, a photojournalist at The Gazette, mulls the ethics of using the multiple-exposure photo technique at a partisan political event.

A sidewalk party after Prairie High School’s commencement ceremony caught the attention of The Gazette’s visuals editor.

A coming together of images at Marion’s Central Plaza unveiling.

“I came across a local travel basketball team’s fundraiser while searching for a nearby gas station after covering the Iowa City Girls’ soccer game,” said Gazette photojournalist Elizabeth Wood. “Seeing the team out there, I decided to pull over and get a few photos of them washing cars.”

“I like the symmetry of the scene. It reminds me of a Rorschach ink blot test.”

Gazette photojournalist Jim Slosiarek set out to make some eagle photos, seeing that it was a beautiful winter day in Iowa City.

Photo from Iowa-Nebraska game a fitting metaphor for a memorable final act of a player who will be remembered in Iowa City for a long time.

“I really knew I had my photo when the kids started playfully throwing the rubber ducks at one another,” photojournalist Jim Slosiarek says of this image from the Prairie Summit YMCA groundbreaking.

A quiet moment like the morning light illuminating American flags on a small-town hardware store shelf can tell just as much of a story as a photo of a candidate shaking hands with voters.

A long-exposure photography technique highlights two forms of electricity: natural and man-made.

One technique that makes a photograph more visually interesting is to layer foreground and background elements.