Kara House

These portraits of Kara House in Washington, DC, were for Enterprise Community Partners, which funds and advocates for affordable housing and community development.
All the residents are immigrants from Togo. Really nice folks. Good cheer and good food after the shoot.
http://www.enterprisecommunity.org

Eve

Eve Hennessa is the real deal. Her spiritually-based paintings and works on paper are done with seriousness, humor, verve, and grace-direct from her heart and life. Eve would likely say "from God."
These portraits were made for her portfolio. And in friendship.
Eve's work is at:
http://www.hennessa.blogspot.com
and
http://www.evehennessaart.blogspot.com
Well worth a look.

Small Miracle

Angie and Ryan Shaw holding their son, McHale, for the first time after he was surgically separated from his twin brother, Mateo.

Miracle..

For more on them, and about the Children's National Medical Center, go to: http://www.dcchildrens.com/dcchildrens/pressroom/subnews/2006shaw_photos.aspx or http://www.dcchildrens.com

Renaissance Mosh Pit

Renaissance Fair in Maryland, its 30th year. Renaissance Fair is an amalgam of behaviors and characters strutting in costumes, centered somewhat loosely on an imagined recreation of Tudor England. They have these festivals all over the USA, and the world.
A neo-goth warlock knight greenman fool queen bawdy jester wench punk crone biker pirate fairy sword-swallowing cakewalk fantasy... and macaroni and cheese on a stick. Society for Creative Anachronism indeed.

Justice Scalia

I photographed Justice Scalia in a private room at the Supreme Court. He is a personally warm and charming man, dazzlingly brilliant, but his judicial philosophy seems to have its underpinnings informed as much by Torquemada as by the Founding Fathers... Sigh.

He kept doing weird stuff with his tongue... So, a picture.

Li'l Cindy Shrine

There was a particularly heartbreaking murder last week in DC. Cynthia Grey ("Li'l Cindy"), 17,was gunned down in front of her home on Benning Rd. NE. She saved her infant godson by hiding him under a car as the killer began firing. She was by all accounts a positive, decent young woman, uninvolved in gang or other illegal behavior. Relatives, friends, & neighbors erected this shrine, the first I have seen clearly calling for an end to violence, and free of gang symbols or piles of liquor bottles.

Sad.

Research- Childrens Research Institute

I have been working on a report for the Children's Research Institute, part of Childrens National Medical Center in Washington DC. I am fascinated by the process - and appearance - of science in progress. Probing for truth.

www.cnmc.org

Montgomery County Fair

This annual fair, just 15 miles from Washington DC, has managed to keep its rural roots. Ruth and I went this weekend. I am quite partial to the pig races.

One year on the planet

Daniela turned one last week.
Wonder and curiousity...