Brendan's creative
process hard at work.

Special Report: Hidden Lead

- Brendan shot and edited the video for a multi-part series on lead in consumer products.

Video:

- Salvation Army Hunts for Lead (Video, 2007)
The Salvation Army looks for donated Christmas toys, which may contain lead and be on the national recall list.

- Don't Cross This Guard (Video, 2007)
Feature on a local crossing guard.

- Saying Goodbye to Sgt. Harrison (Video, 2007, editor for multi-camera shoot)
Brendan edited this video using footage from four cameras at the funeral for a Hillsborough County Sheriff Deputy killed in the line of duty.

- Finding God at the Hip-Hop Church (Video, 2007)
Feature on Pastor D, the leader of a Tampa hip-hop church.

- Life lessons through cooking (Video, 2007)
Feature on the Culinary Program at Sickles High School in Tampa.

- Hunting a hurricane (Interactive graphic, 2007)
Interactive graphic with video Brendan shot during a flight of the "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft, which collects data on tropical storms.

- Janet's Kitchen: How to carve a turkey (Video, 2007, studio shoot, primary camera and project editor)
A pre-Thanksgiving cooking show on how to carve a turkey. Brendan was the primary camera and editor on this project.

- Sammy The Duck Goes to Work (Video, 2006)
Feature on a woman who brings her pet duck to work.

Audio:

- In Their Eyes: Stories of Hurricane Katrina (Audio slideshows, 2005, interviewer, sound, picture and project editor)
A retrospective of the St. Petersburg Times' staff photographers images of Hurricane Katrina. Brendan interviewed the photographers and edited their sound and photographs to produce the slideshows for the project.

- A Hopeful Walk (Audio slideshow, 2006) on the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. Brendan collected and edited the audio and was the picture editor on the project.

- KBIA radio report (2005) on the death of Columbia, Mo. police officer Molly Bowden, the first officer in that town to be killed in the line of duty. Winner of a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for "Use of Sound".

Newspaper:

- "I Bought A Gun," Perspective, St. Petersburg Times, Sunday, April 22, 2006
Brendan writes about buying his first house and his reluctant decision to buy a handgun for the Times' Sunday opinion section.

- "The Story Teller," Latitudes, St. Petersburg Times, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007
Brendan writes for the Times' Sunday arts section about his family friend and childhood neighbor, Studs Terkel, and his new memoir, "Touch and Go."

- "More than a party," Neighborhood Times, St. Petersburg Times, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007
Brendan writes about the cultural significance and personal meaning behind one girl's traditional quinceanera. Brendan also produced a video on the event.