Andersen's career has been incredibly enjoyable to see... literally! Congratulations on 44 years, Dave. We will miss you!
CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Dave Andersen arrived at The Plain Dealer as a shaggy-haired summer intern in 1979, he was given a Nikon camera without a motor drive, two lenses, and no camera bag. He slipped the second lens in his pocket and tagged along with a veteran photographer.
“I don’t know what attracted me to any of this stuff,” said Andersen, who lives in Westlake. “It’s just it was fun taking pictures; it was a challenge to go out and find features.”“He is the most adaptable journalist I’ve ever worked with,” said cleveland.com sports editor David Campbell. “He always just has this unquenchable journalistic passion for what’s next.”
President Ronald Reagan decides between apple and cherry pie as he gets lunch during a visit to Columbus in 1982. Longtime Plain Dealer and cleveland.com photojournalist David I. Andersen picked this image as one of his career favorites. See the full photo gallery above for his favorites.As a teen, Andersen poured over the photographs in the local newspapers. “Going places taking pictures, telling stories — it seemed like a fun way to make a living,” he said.
“I take after my mom in that I worry and stress about everything,” he said. “There were a lot of times when, if I knew I had this big job coming up, I wouldn’t eat breakfast . Nowadays, people talk about stuff like that. But back then you didn’t.” “I remember when we landed, there were guys standing on the tarmac with machine guns on the ready. But my one thought the whole time we were there was, are those guys with the machine guns gonna let us leave the country?” Andersen recalled.
Retired Associated Press staff photographer Mark Duncan recalls that he and Andersen often covered the same news and sports events. However, he did not have the same success in national photography contest. “It’s just one of those things. It kept pushing me to get better pictures,” he said.“But there was never really a reason to leave, because Cleveland is a good news town; it has all the sports teams,” he said. “I got a lot of good assignments. I traveled.”
Andersen and other PD photographers in the early 2000s began using digital cameras, which store images on a chip.
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