More coal

It's the funniest thing-- I spent a long, full day working on this tiny piece of this huge story, and still the best pictures were in the first three minutes of the day. Go figure. But as one editor reminded me today, it doesn't matter how much time or how little time it takes-- just leaving open the opportunity for a great picture is part of the work.

Simple

Sometimes, things are just pretty. Here's an outtake from the carrier shoot a few weeks ago.

Hats off

Bit by bit

Yes, the black and white versus color debate is on-- whether some stories are better suited for one or the other. This literacy story may be a black and white one, though I'm not sure yet. I'm waiting to see how everything comes together.

Literacy, revisited.

A day spent revisiting the literacy story I started working on earlier this year. It's hard to show the lack of things-- of libraries, of parental involvement with homework, of academic role models. And yet, the longer you spend, the deeper you get.

Ordering the world

Sometimes it takes a little patience to create order out of the chaos of municipal elections.

Landscape

I'm doing something different these days-- instead of trying to get closer, I'm trying to get further away to tell stories.