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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=180 BGCOLOR="#444444" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0f4fca72dfgrzc.jpg"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="152" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#A0A0A4 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 127 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portfolio"><U><B>Portfolio</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="homef.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Packages"><U><B>Packages</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Projects"><U><B>Projects</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Client Galleries"><U><B>Client Galleries</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>In The News</B></div> <div> <A HREF="home15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dirty Jobs"><U>Dirty Jobs</U></A>   |   <A HREF="home16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Busch Stadium Demolition"><U>Busch Stadium Demolition</U></A>   |   <A HREF="home2e.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cashs Stadium Scrap"><U>Cash's Stadium Scrap</U></A>   |   <A HREF="home2d.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Opening Day 06"><U>Opening Day 06</U></A>   |   <B>In The News</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>While working on the Busch Stadium Demolition project, Jamie worked closely with Jupiter Entertainment,  a production company contracted by National Geographic.  National Geographic will be releasing a video documentary series entitled "Tools of the Trade", featuring the Busch Demolition.  Some of Jamie's still photographs will be used for promotional purposes for the upcoming documentary.  Below is an article promoting the series, along with one of Jamie's Stadium shots.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0fe72520.jpg" border=0 width="626" height="850" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> _______________________________________________________________</div> <div> On November 30, 2005, KSDK television, </div> <div> St. Louis NBC affiliate, aired the following story: </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88553" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.as"><U><B>St. Louis Photographer Documents Busch Demolition</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> 11/30/2005</div> <div> By Kim Hibbs</div> <bR> <div> <B>"(KSDK)</B> - Many have made the trip to downtown St. Louis to watch, even take pictures as the old Busch Stadium is demolished. Can you imagine having unlimited access to take the best shots? One St. Louis area photographer is living that dream..."</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Read more and watch the interview at </B></I><A HREF="http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88553" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.as"><U><I><B>KSDK.com</B></I></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>______________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> On December 8, 2005, KTVI television, </div> <div> St. Louis FOX affiliate, aired the following story: </div> <bR> <div> BUSCH STADIUM DEMOLITION PHOTOGRAPHS </div> <bR> <div> 12/08/2005</div> <div> By John Auble</div> <bR> <div> "<B>(KTVI)</B>-Busch Stadium may be a memory, but it will live on through the eyes of one photographer. The stadium demolition company commissioned 26-year-old Jamie Gardner as its official demolition photographer.  She's taken some three hundred pictures everyday. Some of them will end up in National Geographic Magazine. Gardner has added a poetic touch to the destruction. She's named some of the pictures. You'll be able to see Gardner's work in the official record for the demolition company, but her collection is also available on her website at <U>www.jgardnerphotography.com</U>." </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Read More at </B></I><A HREF="http://www.fox2ktvi.com" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.fox2ktvi.com"><U><I><B>fox2ktvi.com </B></I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>______________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighborhoods/stories.nsf/news/story/F0C3C4B8B3C2D6D9862570AB00709675?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22jamie%22+AND+%22gardner%22" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighbo"><U><B>Doc-u-li-ti</B></U></A><B>on</B></div> <bR> <div> Kevin Darr</div> <div> Of the Suburban Journals </div> <div> Clarion Journal </div> <div> Wednesday, Nov. 02 2005 </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="13d9b660.jpg" border=0 width="155" height="102" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jamie Moallankamp-Gardner a Columbia native who lives in Waterloo, has been hired by Ahrens Contracting to document the demolition of Busch Stadium in St.</div> <div> (Terry Smith photo/Suburban Journals)</div> <bR> <div> Watching concrete tumble to the ground might not be everyone's idea of a fantastic job.</div> <div> But Jamie Moallankamp-Gardner rather enjoys it.</div> <div> This isn't just any ordinary concrete though, as it belongs to the old gal at 250 Stadium Plaza in St. Louis—better known as Busch Stadium.</div> <div> Moallankamp-Gardner, a Columbia native who lives in Waterloo, has been hired by Ahrens Contracting to document the demolition. Ahrens is one of the main companies assigned to bring down the 39-year-old structure.</div> <div> Moallankamp-Gardner was hired after learning about the job from a friend. She went in for the interview and got the job on the spot.</div> <div> "I freelance on the side and heard that Ahrens wanted to document the demolition for their own benefit and thought I would give it a shot," Moallankamp-Gardner said.</div> <div> Complete with hard hat and plenty of photo equipment, Moallankamp-Gardner started shooting Oct. 21, two days after the Cardinals season ended. She started by shooting construction crews tearing out seats, dismantling the outfield walls and removing anything and everything they could to move to the new stadium.</div> <div> So far, Moallankamp-Gardner has been on the job for four days and is struck by how amazed she is by the giant machinery on site.</div> <div> "I just find myself staring at them because they make tearing the concrete apart look like someone crushing a potato chip in their hand," Moallankamp-Gardner said.</div> <div> She said the coolest shot she has taken so far is of the manually operated scoreboard being taken apart piece by piece.</div> <div> "It was astounding how big and how much time it took to take it apart," Moallankamp-Gardner said.</div> <div> While all the noise and destruction is what catches the eye, Moallankamp-Gardner is focusing on much more than that.</div> <div> She is digging deep and trying to capture the human element behind the destruction of a downtown St. Louis fixture.</div> <div> "There is such an emotional feeling here," Moallankamp-Gardner said. "During different parts of the demolition, when something memorable would come down, the crew would stand and clap.</div> <div> "Its quite amazing that so much emotion could come from a building."</div> <div> Moallankamp-Gardner plans to be on the job for quite some time, as the wrecking ball is tentatively scheduled to arrive tomorrow.</div> <div> "I have been taking hundreds of shots a day and plan to keep on taking them until the whole thing is on the ground," Moallankamp-Gardner.</div> <bR> <div> <B>____________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighborhoods/stories.nsf/news/story/CBC4F218E213CA06862570AB00708E0A?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22jamie%22+AND+%22gardner%22" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighbo"><U><B>Moallankamp-Gardner hopes to capture some </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighborhoods/stories.nsf/news/story/CBC4F218E213CA06862570AB00708E0A?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22jamie%22+AND+%22gardner%22" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighbo"><U><B>of the humanity surrounding the stadium</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> Kevin Darr</div> <div> Of the Suburban Journals </div> <div> Clarion Journal </div> <div> 11/02/2005</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="13f9b660.jpg" border=0 width="155" height="102" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Local photographer Jamie Moallankamp-Gardner, who has been hired to photographically document the demolition of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, started off by photographing messages left by St. Louis Cardinals fans around the country for whom Busch Stadium is more than just a giant slab of concrete.</div> <div> (Terry Smith photo/Suburban Journals)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Fro the millions of St. Louis Cardinals fans around the country, Busch Stadium is more than just a giant slab of concrete.</div> <div> It's home to thousands of memories—memories of the 1982 World Series clinched on home soil, memories of Bob Forsch's two no-hitters and memories of countless hours watching the second-winningest team in baseball history.</div> <div> These memories have come out full force in the last year, as Busch Stadium has celebrated its final season. To commemorate its 39 years, longtime Cardinals legends have come and gone to watch baseball games and be remembered for their feats on the field. Greats such as Ozzie Smith, Lou Brock, Willie McGee and Stan Musial have torn down numbers on the outfield wall that counted down to the final game.</div> <div> But once the baseball season ended on Oct. 19, it was time for the fans to take center stage.</div> <div> With pens in hand, thousands of fans wrote messages on the walls surrounding the stadium. Most of the messages indicated the special place the stadium filled in their lives and when they saw their first game there.</div> <div> Local photographer Jamie Moallankamp-Gardner, who has been assigned to document the demolition of the stadium, started off by photographing these messages.</div> <div> "The first thing I wanted to do when coming over here is to document how much of an impact this demolition is having on people's lives," Moallankamp-Gardner said. "Its not just a building falling down, but memories that are falling down."</div> <div> Moallankamp-Gardner said this is evident when she is outside taking pictures as people drive-by with their heads out their windows, taking photos of the stadium's last days.</div> <div> As well as the fans, those involved in the demolition have just as much sentimentality as anyone.</div> <div> "The workers seem to feel what they are doing and understand the magnitude of it," Moallankamp-Gardner said. "Sometimes they pause to take it all in."</div> </td> </tr></table></body>