Redlights and Redeyes

Harry Potter is quickly becoming my forced-upon muse. I got a call from The New York Times last week to head back up to Universal Orlando to shoot at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter again – followers of this blog will remember that Harry Potter made a few appearances last year as well (here, [...]

Gawrsh, something happened in Mickey’s town. A m-u-r-d-e-r. It was the first one in 14 years since the master-planned community was developed by Disney.  People always equate suburbia and cookie cutter homes to “Pleasantville” and the like, but Celebration is about as close as you are going to get to the epitome of landscaped perfection. [...]

Yes, He Can. You can see it now.  It’s not from policy or polls or pundits, but from a gut feeling.  It’s coming from a purely visual person who has covered politics for a few elections now.  This guy will be running for president someday.  He has the look, the cute kids that make cute photos, [...]

If there’s one thing I learned late in my days as a staff newspaper photojournalist, it was to stop looking at the newspaper.  Nothing good can come of it.  Don’t get me wrong, I love newspapers, but I’ve seen my photo cropped to a circle before.  Literally.  I don’t save clips.  I have a small [...]

I’m not sure what’s worse, being part of the pack fighting for scraps or being eaten alive. I found myself in the middle of the ravenous pack in Gainesville yesterday at Dove World Outreach Center  for the pastor/ringmaster Terry Jones’ Koran burning media circus for The New York Times.  You might have read something about [...]

This man is planning on burning copies of the Koran on September 11th. Pastor Terry Jones. Not sure what else to say beyond that, because to be honest, I’m not even sure where to start.  Instead I’ll just pass on this link to Damien Cave’s story in The New York Times I shot this for. [...]