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Beck Diefenbach is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, and is originally from San Francisco, California.

Currently he is the photography and multimedia intern at the St. Louis Post- Dispatch in St. Louis, Missouri.

Posey’s hits first ever walk-off to defeat Dodgers 2-1 for the SF Chronicle

Buster Posey has been a lot of things: Rookie of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year, Most Valuable Player and a two time World Series Champion. Despite all this, he has never had a walk-off… anything. Until now.
Friday night, Posey hit a homerun on a 3-2 count in the bottom of the ninth to [...]

Posted 05 May 2013 § Freelance Reporting § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

The last toll collector of the Golden Gate Bridge for the San Francisco Chronicle

I had a fantastic assignment two days ago photographing the final shift of toll collectors at the Golden Gate Bridge. California is replacing toll collectors with a full automated system which takes a picture of your license plate and sends you a bill.
Many of the people who were assigned the final shift at the bridge [...]

Posted 28 March 2013 § Freelance Reporting § News ‡ Comments (0) °

Troop 14: Snow Camping 2013

The Boy Scouts of America has been in the news a lot recently, and rightfully so. Let’s hope the Boy Scouts of America HQ get’s its stuff together real quick. While some adult scout leaders have wasted time not being brave, friendly, kind or the rest of the Scout Law, Troop 14 got busy doing [...]

Posted 13 March 2013 § Personal § Troop 14 ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Graffiti book author for the San Francisco Chronicle

It has been super long since my last post, but I was very fortunate to travel to Singapore to shoot a wedding in January. Ever since I got back I’ve been busy shooting or editing. Now I am finally going back into my past few months of work and pulling things out to share with [...]

Posted 05 March 2013 § Freelance Reporting § portrait ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Pacific Telephone Building Renovation for SF Chronicle

I was recently assigned to photograph the renovation progress at the old Pacific Telephone Building in downtown San Francisco. It is really an incredible building which has been used for so many different purposes over its life. Originally for offices, at one point the building was more machine than man, housing a ton of telecommunications [...]

Posted 27 December 2012 § Feature § Freelance Reporting ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,