They also cover news who only stand and watch it happen on TV
November 14, 2022: The Valley Forge Military Academy and College Regimental Band marches in the 8th Annual Philadelphia Veterans Parade on Market Street East last week.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared via recorded video as he was honored during ceremonies at the National Constitution Center as the 2022 recipient of the Liberty Medal. It was one of the many television screens I photographed over the past couple of weeks. Zelensky was still on the big TV inside the museum after the event, when I looked back and saw his image alongside those of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and President Lincoln, outside on a sign advertising a current exhibit.
Earlier it was the action of the underdog wild-card Phillies making their improbable appearance in the World Series. They entered the playoffs having won only 87 games and faced the Houston Astros, who finished the regular season with 106 (out of 162)..
I didn’t photograph any of the series games, but there was a remarkable night of my own when I photographed the game on TV in three different bars in three different parts of the city - and captured Phillies fans cheering a different home run in each one.
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They also serve who only stand and wait outside the ballpark to illustrate those off-beat feature stories done by the non-sports reporters.
Just before that TV excitement, there was the long-awaited Senate debate between John Fetterman and and Mehmet Oz. It happened in a television studio in Harrisburg, where the host, Nexstar Media, declined to allow photographers access to the event (the Associated Press subsequently declined to accept the station’s handout photos). I photographed it on the two big TV monitors set up in a tent outside the station.
Finally, my adventures photographing news events on large visual output devices culminated with power being cut off to the big TVs that broadcast election results on the basketball court that was turned into a watch party for Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz.
A worker cleans up in the early morning after an election night watch party for supporters of Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Mehmet Oz at the Newtown Athletic Club in Bucks County. Earlier many news organizations had declared Democrat John Fetterman the winner, about an hour after Oz had appeared at the party.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Oz supporters wait until the polls close at 8 p.m. and everyone is allowed into his election watch party.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Oz kisses his wife Lisa at his election watch party.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Supporters of Republican candidate for Governor Doug Mastriano converge on the “John Fredericks and Real America Speaks TEAM MAGA Election Tour” bus outside a campaign event in South Philadelphia.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Campaign signs for Republican candidates Mastriano and Oz line a fence behind a SEPTA depot in South Philadelphia.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate John Fetterman speaks on a pre-recorded video to guests at the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee pre-election dinner at the Sheet Metal Workers Union hall in South Philadelphia.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Fetterman signs at the charcuterie table at the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee pre-election dinner.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
The media tent outside the WHTM-TV/abc27 Studio in Harrisburg during the first and only debate between Oz and Fetterman.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Mastriano supporters attend a campaign event at Galdo's in South Philadelphia. The T-shirt has on it a photo of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
A light rain falls outside the media tent after the Oz-Fetteran debate.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Fetterman appears at a rally in Lions Park in Bristol, Bucks County.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
An audio visual contractor takes down a large screen TV monitor in the darkened hallway after an Oz campaign event in King of Prussia. Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
Paula Musselman (left) and Kathy Brown, two Realtors and friends from York, Pa, brought their homemade signs to see Oz officially launch his general election campaign. Both women also wore autographed T-shirts with the slogan, “Pennsylvania the Land of Oz 2022.”Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
Fetterman pauses to greet a two year-old in Rittenhouse Square.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
Fetterman leaves after a live televised debate at Dickinson College.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
Oz serves some pierogi to a fellow guest - before getting his own - at the Wallenpaupack Sportsman’s Association’s 50th Annual Spring Fishing Party at the Tall Oaks Hunting Club in the Poconos.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
Since 1998, a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color:
November 7, 2022: A marble tablet, engraved with the 45 words of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, spans a 100-foot-wide wall on the second floor of the National Constitution Center. The First Amendment protects many activities surrounding voting, but the Founders stopped short of including direct voter protection in the Constitution. The 50-ton marble was previously displayed on the four-story-high façade of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. which closed in 2019. It was installed here earlier this year. Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
October 31, 2022: The action pauses on a big-screen TV in the middle of Kings Highway in downtown Haddonfield as fans gather to watch the Phillies play the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the World Series.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
October 24, 2022: The Phanatic arrives in the parking lot at P.J. Whelihan’s in Westmont, N.J. atop the Rally for Red October Tour Bus, the first stop before heading to Center City ahead of the weekend’s NLCS games. Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
October 17, 2022: During a VIP preview, a guide holds a flag to lead tours of Virtua Voorhees Hospital/ Penn Medicine’s new $45 million Proton Therapy Center. Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
October 10, 2022: Pastor Jean Bellevue puts out chairs as “savesies” to hold a parking space before a state-wide political candidate arrived for a round-table talk
and evening services at Kingdom Empowerment International Ministries in Mayfair. Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
October 3, 2022: Alex Hiznay and Gabby Rybicki (right) play some one-on-one. Hiznay has been kicking the soccer ball on Independence Mall all summer with friends,
but this is the first time with Rybicki (they’re dating). He likes the location, with lots of nearby watering spots. “It’s great after working up a little
sweat.” They never hold large games there so they don’t disrupt tourists. Plus, he says, the small goal makes it more about ball control “and finesse.”Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 26, 2022: The sun sets behind Philadelphia on the Ben Franklin Bridge, entering the time of year photographers look forward to for its long shadows.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 19, 2022: Donna Smith pauses on South Street at Broad, just before getting on the SEPTA Route 40 bus. Asked about her outfit, she replied, “It’s called color coordinating.” Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 12, 2022: Jim Glatz, a retired Cherry Hill Police Department captain, joins others placing 2,977 flags to honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks along the intersection of Springdale and Kresson Roads in Cherry Hill.
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September 5, 2022: An eight-foot-tall roadside attraction is one of many outside outlets of the chicken-serving, Baltimore-based convenience store/gas station chain Royal Farms. It has been expanding into our region in recent years. This one is on the Black Horse Pike in Bellmawr. Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 29, 2022: Merchants close up their tent as a light rain begins to fall at a street fair in Collingswood.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 22. 2022: The remnants of a celebration remain in a University City parking garage after the participants have departed.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 15, 2022: And in the category, Most Creative Do-it-Yourself Side View Mirror Replacement, the award goes to… (seen along Pine Street in Society Hill)Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 8, 2022: The setting sun reflects off the glass of Cira Centre South, behind the trees of the rooftop urban park Cira Green.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 1, 2022: Workers change out a large billboard on the facade of Market Street East’s Fashion District Philadelphia.
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