050736 Harvesting melons.	050776 Cutting flowers for sale.	050858 At the Farmers' Market.
McAdams Family Farm, Efland, NC In 2005, I spent a day with the McAdams family of Efland, documenting events on their family farm. I also visited the family's sales location at the Carrboro, N.C., Farmers' Market. This was an assignment for Farm & Ranch Living Magazine.

Ernest H. Robl stock and assignment photography:
People and photojournalism

While I am best known for my photography of transportation and travel subjects—things and places—I have also long photographed people in their environment, both as parts of my transportation and travel coverage and for other projects. This page contains a few examples of people photos made over the years.

Click on the images for larger versions with additional caption information. See the bottom of this page for additional information and links to additional images.

030751 North Carolina State Ports CEO Erik Stromberg on the docks of the state port at Wilmington, N.C. This photo was shot as part of a project on the state ports for Business North Carolina magazine.

021587 Deputy N.C. Secretary of Transportation David King speaking about the importance of passenger trains at the dedication of the restored Selma, N.C., passenger station on Nov. 19, 2002. (King has retired from that position and is now serving as interim general manager of the Triangle Transit Authority in North Carolina.)

850598 Photo used for the cover of my book, Organizing Your Photographs, now long out of print. The link to the larger image of this photo also contains a link to a photo of the actual book cover.

921201 Costumed shopkeeper at Colonial Williamsburg, Va., on a cold winter day. I also have en entire series of images of traditional Christmas decorations at Colonial Williamsburg. For a few samples, see my Virginia page.

Early photojournalism

I started out in photojournalism—daily news coverage for newspapers and the news service United Press International—and my work as a military information specialist also involved news coverage. Much of my early photography focused almost exclusively on people.

In fact, when a large German newspaper ran a reader poll of the type of news photo that readers liked best, the winner was a people photo that I had made for UPI—a white North Carolina state trooper tenderly carrying a black child. (The photo resulted from a racial disturbance during which a curfew had been imposed. The child was in a car that was stopped for a curfew violation.)

I haven't turned my back on my journalistic roots and still consider most of the work that I do photojournalism.

Lighting for location work

My lighting equipment (and other photo equipment) is specifically selected for portability. For situations where mobility is absolutely essential, I have small but sophisticated battery-powered portable lighting. For more complex situations that require lighting an entire room, including location portraiture with a little less deadline pressure, my portable studio lighting equipment can handle a range of challenging situations. (My lighting equipment can be quickly set up or be broken down on location.)

For additional background information, please see the Business section of this site.

For additional examples of people pictures, please see the Railroaders at work page.

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