Jack’s Photography
Links on this page are to galleries of photos by Jack Williams. Some of these are photographs he shot on news assignments for USA TODAY.
Jack and his wife, Darlene Shields, visited London, England, from April 25 through May 2, 2011. Photos we took included London faces by Jack.
Space Shuttle Discovery 7 seconds after liftoff on Feb.24 from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Jack Williams, photo.
In February 2011 Jack took photos of the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on Feb. 24, 2011. Jack shot these photos from the KSC media area. He was there to do some of the reporting for a story scheduled to run in the July-August issue of Weatherwise magazine on weather forecasting for Shuttle and other rocket launches. Shuttle launch photo gallery.
Other photo galleries are:
The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, Va., where he spent a couple of days with his brother, Charles, and other members of the Young Rose Family Band from Beaufort, S.C.
- The July 4, 2020 celebration at George Washington’s Mount Vernon home, which is now a major tourist attraction. It’s south of Old Town Alexandria, Va. on the Potomac River
Beginning with his first newspaper reporting job Jack occasionally took photographs for stories he worked on. When he reported from Greenland in 1997 he took a film camera and returned with a few photos to illustrate his stories.
When he reported from Antarctica in 1999 digital photography and reasonably good Internet connections enabled him to send back photos to accompany his daily “trip diary,” which would be called a blog today.
Jack’s older photos
The links below are to Web galleries of photos that Jack took to accompany stories he wrote for USATODAY.com or to galleries he produced using his own photos and photos of others.
The photo galleries illustrate the improvements in technology from 1999 until 2004, when the format allowed larger images and captions, making it easier to tell a story with a photo gallery. They also show Jack’s belief that a photo gallery should tell a story instead of being a mere collection of images.
- A Tour of the South Pole Station, January 1999
- Visit to the Summit Research Camp, Greenland, 2000
- Science in the Arctic, August 2002, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy
- Icy Science in Greenland, August 2004
All of the photos on this page or linked to from this page are copyrighted by Jack Williams unless otherwise credited and may not be reproduced without permission. All of the photos are available in low resolution suitable for online use. A few of Jack’s photos are available in high enough resolution for 8 by 12-inch or larger prints.
None of these photos may be used for commercial purposes such as advertisements or endorsements.
For information on permission to reproduce any of these photos, use the Ask Jack e-mail form on this Web site.
