Dave Arntson : Photojournalist North Dakota & Minnesota Photojournalism, Editorial and Commercial Photography701.371.7363
west fargo, n.d.
Red River Flood – Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sunday was a massive day of preparation in Fargo-Moorhead. On the North Dakota side flatbed semi-trucks, city and National Guard trucks delivered palette after palette of sandbags to residents along the Red River. City buses delivered volunteers to private homes to help build dikes. With rain moving in and an earlier record-breaking crest expected the [...]
Red River Flood – Friday, March 20, 2009
After a wet fall, record snowfall in December and March blizzard the Red River is expected to reach levels similar to the flood of 1997. Massive preparations are underway to fight the flooding including the filling of sandbags by volunteers and dike building.
Mid-America Aviation
Mid-America Aviation in West Fargo, N.D. remanufactures airplane parts for military and commercial clients. They are a small but very interesting operation. These photos are for the North Dakota Trade Office.
Foot and Ankle Clinic
A local video production company was shooting a television commercial for a Bismarck foot and ankle clinic and I was hired to get stills for complementary print pieces. The location was the Fargo Theatre and there were movies scheduled to be shown that evening so we had a hard deadline to be done. The shooting [...]
Smoke-Free Press Conference
These are a couple of PR photos for Clay County Public Health when they held a press conference to promote a new no smoking initiative.
Hotel Donaldson
We recently did a shoot at the Hotel Donaldson for their web site. They needed updated room photos along with some people photos. We’re going to be doing more but the first people shot we took care of was the hot tub on top of the building.
Britta and I used three lights: a main light [...]
March Storm
We had a doozy of a blizzard this week that left some impressive drifts. Unfortunately this wasn’t even our worst storm of the year. Yikes. Here’s a couple of photos of my daughter by the drifts around our house.
After the Goal
I think reaction shots can be some of the best photos in all of sports. This is after a keeper allowed a goal during a shootout.
Do the Right Thing
One of my worst days as a photographer was when I got behind a high-speed chase of a stolen car in Oshkosh, Wis. A teen had stolen his mother’s car that morning and he and a friend had been hiding out all day. In the early evening they were spotted by the police and the [...]