J. Richard Photography

08/01/2025

Alright so what's taken so long is that I have been trying to sort out my CR2 raw photos but I think considering the quantity of the photos I'm working with I'm going to just focus on the JPGs.

07/28/2025

I am working on getting my photos from Anime Iowa uploaded. Just having a slow day and technology issues.

03/04/2025

This was an incredible shoot to get to go to the site. I hope spreading awareness of this piece of Iowa history not only generates more interest in preserving it, but also of how diversity and equality can stand up to even the darkest of times.

No roads lead to Buxton anymore.A few battered foundations and quiet farmland are all that mark what was once a bustling coal community, founded around 1900 by

03/04/2025

An in-depth piece on redlining Nicole Dantzler put together. I'm really happy to get this information out there about how this practice continues to have lasting effects.

Surveys of federally-funded cities and colored-coded maps set into motion discriminatory practices.Redlining is a lending practice in the early 20th centruy tha

03/03/2025

According to FIRST Tech Challenge Iowa is the third biggest state in the country for robot competition.

Twelve youth teams from Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Marion, Solon, and Tiffin are set to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge Iowa Championship at Xtream Arena on F

02/25/2025

I'm pretty proud of how this piece turned out.

A march was held today at Green Square Park to protest recent executive orders and bills that target diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs.T

01/20/2025

A natpkg (prerecorded segment with only natural sound and interviews, no reporter) I made over the weekend. Pretty happy with how this one turned out.

It's that time of year for the Cedar Rapids Fire Department to do their annual ice rescue trainingCRFD goes "polar bear" every year, practicing rescues in semi-

01/20/2025

Due to two policies at Meta, Facebook's parent company, I have made the decision to vacate this page and begin work on my own website. These policies are the loosening of restrictions on hate speech, specifically placing a target on LGBTQ+ peoples' back, and scraping all photo and image data (MY WORK) to train their "AI" (plagiarism) software. Once that is up and running I will be removing all my work from this page and only maintaining it for contact purposes.

12/08/2024

On the one hand the cold causes me joint pain, but on the other I need the frost so I can work on my "Frigid" series.

11/03/2024

On the final day of their fall season of events, Bloomsbury Farm hosted many who got the chance to take out their frustrations on all the pumpkins left from thi