Christmas Time

A lovely piece in the Seattle Times on Alan Berner's Christmas cards. Makes me want to quit portfolio-ing for a day and go take pictures.



Also, if you haven't seen the work of Jonathan Harris, the time is now. I can't even begin to imagine how databases can be made so beautiful. I am so excited to spend this next month reading and designing and editing audio and catching up on all I've been too busy to sit with.

Dacota, Continued

Every once and a while you fall in love with a subject, and my new love is Dacota, who I've posted about before. What a wonderful extended family he has-- he spends his afternoons with his cousins because his parents work In Columbia, about 30 minutes from Sturgeon, where they live. I'll be following him to school and hanging out with him this weekend. Dacota is a complicated kid, and there's just some magic about him. I hope I'll be able to convey that.

Kendra

A strange and difficult assignment yielded this image, and this presentation: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/media/multimedia/2007/pages/1124wic/index.html
Not quite my style, but another classic situation of wanting the reporter to contact photo earlier in the reporting process. We had just a few days to throw this together, finding subjects ourselves.

Connecticut

Walked around an orchard with my parents, getting ready to go back to Missouri. Being in CT makes me want to work for a paper here. Maybe . . .

Radio Lab

To learn about the posibilities of sound, take a moment this Thanksgiving and listen to:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/11/09

"Sound is like touch, at a distance."

Yale Harvard Game

How did I end up here, back in Connecticut, photographing football? The character of a Yale/Harvard game is so different from a Mizzou game, and there were things I recognized there as part of some culture I may once have been a part of. Yale lost, 6-37. That is a Yale player pictured above.

Beautiful Girls