Rick West

Staff Photographer
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  • Emailrwest@dailyherald.com

Rick West is a staff photographer who has been with the Daily Herald since 2000. He covers communities around Kane County on a daily basis, but his job has afforded him the opportunity to shoot events including a relief trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Republican National Convention, the Chicago Bears' most recent trip to the Super Bowl in Miami, and the 2010 Stanley Cup championship and ensuing celebrations.

Rick has won numerous awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Illinois Press Photographers Association and The Associated Press.

He is a graduate of Ohio State University and lives in Kane County with his wife and daughter.

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Moving Picture: Batavia man takes care of bison at Fermilab

May 03 2013 | 12:27 pm - Cleo Garcia doesn't get too much attention from people when he tells them he works the roads and grounds crew at Fermilab in Batavia. But when they find out he also takes care of the bison herd there, they are much more interested. "Then they want...

Moving Picture: Algonquin man's art is taxidermy

Feb 14 2013 | 3:04 pm - Vern Brancamp is an artist, but unlike other artists, for the 70-year-old taxidermist nature IS his canvas. "I got started when I was kid," he said. "My dad was a hunter and when we'd come back with pheasant he'd pluck all the feathers and throw...

Moving Picture: Farming that's old school at Primrose Farm in St. Charles

Oct 26 2012 | 8:58 am - Jon Kuester, of East Dundee, uses his passion for teaching and history as the living history farmer at Primrose Farm in St. Charles. "American history was always my focus," Kuester said. "But agriculture is the story of American history, so if...

Images: Streamwood vs. Batavia football

Sep 15 2012 | 12:16 am - The Streamwood Sabres traveled to Batavia Friday night to take on the Bulldogs, with home team coming away with the win 33-0.

Moving Picture: Larkin counselor never gives up on kids

Aug 31 2012 | 10:39 am - Erin Brumfield Grima works at Larkin Center in Elgin with kids who have issues with past sexual abuse. "When you work with kids for awhile you can see that the idea that somebody would be invested in them when nobody has been invested in them in...

Tree just one way in which principal will be remembered

Jun 04 2012 | 11:05 am - Students and the Parent Teacher Organization at Kenyon Woods Middle School honored retiring Principal Sue Welu Monday by planting a tree in her honor in front of the school.

Moving Picture: Geneva caregiver helps seniors to enjoy the here and now

Mar 30 2012 | 2:16 pm - Fueled by the personal experience of watching her grandmother deal with Alzheimer's disease, Arden Courts program services coordinator Erin McCart has a passion for helping the elderly enjoy each moment of their lives.

Batavia coffee shop to close

Nov 08 2011 | 4:21 pm - Batavia’s Limestone Coffee & Tea will be shutting its doors at the end of the month “We’re devastated,” owner Maureen Mares said Tuesday. She said she found out a couple of weeks ago that her lease will not be renewed after...

How this St. Charles company keeps us safe

Oct 21 2011 | 2:55 pm - Behind the scenes at Work Area Protection in St. Charles where road construction safety items of all sorts are created, and the only color choice is orange. Cones, barrels, arrow and message boards, barricades, warning and strobe lights, manhole...

Ride along with Elgin police to see how they keep us safe

Sep 09 2011 | 3:18 pm - Behind the scenes with Elgin Police and towing crews as they run a safety checkpoint in downtown Elgin. Officers are looking for signs of chemical impairment, as well as drivers operating without a license or without insurance.

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