Houston-based freelancer Robert Seale was recently assigned to photograph figure skater Becky Bereswill.

New York City-based freelancer Gerald Holubowicz photographed the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island.

Last week, Ohio University’s school of Visual Communication and its students launched their annual spring project, Soul of Athens. The project is a collaborative effort, from all four sequences of study within the school, to tell the stories of the Athens community. This year’s themes are Thrive, Passage, Shelter, and Expression.

Tampa-based freelance photographer Charlie Doerner has been shooting a series on Cowboy Action Shooting.

North Carolina-based freelancer Logan Mock-Bunting traveled to the Gulf Coast to cover many aspects of the oil spill disaster.

DC-based freelancer Melissa Golden photographed botanical illustrator Alice Tangerini who works at the Museum of Natural History….and wears a pirate eye patch.

Sarah Zemunski is an animal photographer based in Lincoln, NE and keeps busy shooting portraits of all of kinds furry, feathery, and slithery creatures.

Michael Durham is a nature photographer based in Portland, Oregon and recently spent an evening lighting a gigantic Oak Tree using strobes. He gave Photo Brigade an exclusive first person account of his difficult shoot.

Washington DC-based freelancer Jay Westcott had 2 minutes to make a portrait of Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, who was in town to meet with Congressional leaders on Capitol Hill regarding the oil spill in the Gulf.

Based in Denver, freelance photographer/attorney and founding member of Luceo Images Matt Slaby talks about the merits and importance of model releases in his column, “Legal Left, Meet Creative Right”.