Eye on the Ball
That's former top-ranked tennis player Dinara Safina of Russia in action at the 2008 Bausch & Lomb Championships at Amelia Island, Florida. I first attended the event in my duties as PR director on the Virginia Slims Championship Series in 1987. Two decades later and two months after the Bausch & Lomb tournament, Safina reached the finals of the French Open ini Paris. By April of 2009, she was the number-one player in the world.

Pandas
A mother panda and her cub rest comfortably inside their habitat at the San Diego Zoo near the end of 2002.

Spirit of St. Louis
In the spring of 2011, former Cardinal baseball great Wally Moon signs a book at a St. Louis event promoting Moon Shots: Reflections of a Baseball Life, which I wrote for Wally the year before. The foreground table-poster image of a much younger Moon was taken from the cover of the April 22, 1957 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine.

For more photos from the Moon Shots St. Louis publicity tour, click here.

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Chorus Line
That’s the actor Keith Carradine in the middle of the chorus line at the end of a show-stopping number in the Broadway musical “The Will Rogers Follies” at New York City’s Palace Theater in 1992. 

Boston Avenue United Methodist Church 
"In one corner, Adah Robinson, a high school art teacher, painter, and printmaker. In the other, Bruce Goff, one of the twentieth century’s most original architects. The trophy: bragging rights for designing the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, an imposing and gloriously Art Deco edifice in Tulsa. The grudge match has been going on since the 1930s and it's a touchy subject in Tulsa."

For the complete National Trust for Historic Preservation story, click here.

Daddy Dearest
This father-and-daughter photo was taken as I put together a website and promotional video for the J.D. McCarty Center in Norman, Oklahoma in 2003. The McCarty Center works to enrich the lives of children with developmental disabilities. 

The Juice
That’s O.J. Simpson on the sidelines watching his USC Trojans take on Oklahoma in a college football game played in Norman, Oklahoma, on September 25, 1982. Normally, I watched Sooner games from the Owen Field press box, but on this Saturday, I had a spot on the sidelines with camera in hand. Despite Sooner defensive tackle Rick Bryan’s forced fumble, the Trojans won the game that day 12-0. As for O.J. Simpson, his life changed dramatically a dozen years later when he was charged with the murder of his ex-wife. Twenty years after this photo was taken, my path crossed with Simpson's again on the back patio of a hotel in Key Biscayne, Florida, where his son worked in the kitchen as a station cook.

Tennis Press Corps
That’s best-selling author John Feinstein in the tan sweater along with fellow sportswriters hard at work in the press room of the 1987 Pilkington Glass Tennis Championship in Eastbourne, England. John and I became friends after he tagged me with the nickname, "Woody," in homage to my perceived backwoods roots as a native Oklahoman.

Coming Ashore
Marines hit the beach in a training exercise at Naval Base Cornado in San Diego. 

Happy Hour
"Horsing around" was obviously welcome during Happy Hours at the Sonic Drive-In...at least when this photo was taken on the outskirts of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in the early 1990s. 

Dancing to the Music
Young boys take advantage of a live performance by musicians on a street corner near the waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa in April 2015.

Green-Eyed Boy
Near Noordhoek, South Africa, April 2015.

Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow
The Virginia saltmarsh mallow is, according to the Florida Wildflower Foundation, "a shrub-like wildflower with showy pink blooms. It occurs naturally in salt and freshwater marshes, swamps, sloughs, coastal swales and wet thickets throughout much of the state." I found this one in 2008 on Amelia Island.

Space Shuttle Challenger
On a trip to Florida in mid-January 1986, I made my first and only visit to the Kennedy Space Center. There, standing ready at Launch Complex 39B was the Space Shuttle Challenger. On January 28 of that year, the Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

Nice Seats
Marketing business with the Pujols Family Foundation and Pujols 5 Restaurant took me to St. Louis in April 2006, and while there, I was able to catch a St. Louis Blues hockey game. When you know baseball great Albert Pujols, you get good seats, whether the game is baseball or hockey. In this Blues outing against the Edmonton Oilers, I sat five rows from the ice and was able to make use of the photographers' porthole near my seat to get this unencumbered shot of the action. The Blues won that night, 2-1, ending a 13-game losing streak, but the team wound up dropping 19 of its final 20 games that year.