One thing I’ve always loved about the St. Petersburg Times, while working there for many years and since then, as an occasional reader (usually when I visit to teach at Poynter), is the serendipity of finding great content spread throughout the paper.
Today’s surprise was a wonderful photo by Staff Photographer Jim Damaske, inside the paper’s Metro section. There on Page 3, this terrific shot of a dolphin with a prosthetic tail. How cool! With great details like the fake tail breaking the water, and a tank-mate keeping an eye on things from underneath. The 6-line caption is thorough and engaging, a story in itself.
Even though it’s “just” on Page 3 of Metro, the photo’s a memorable winner (and beautifully reproduced). It’s the type of content that – as many fellow readers have said over the decades – makes us look forward to picking up the paper when we can.