Friday mornings I have a History of Photography class. After class today I went into Swing's Coffee Shop, the place my friend Andrew runs. I practice shooting without looking through the viewfinder. It's harder to aim using a telephoto lens. I took this lucky shot "from the hip" with a 200mm ... Andrew trying to stay awake after the morning caffeine rush.
This is Mike at his apartment getting ready to watch President Bush speak to the Nation. We watched about 5 minutes of it, then went to play Frisbee in Washington Circle.
This is a photo I had to take of a "room with a radiator." It is for a Houghton Mifflin School's Grade 4 Science. I took shots of three different radiators. The most interesting one was mounted on a wall in an art studio in the top of the Corcoran Gallery.
Because classes start Wednesday morning, students at the Corcoran College of Art + Design have come back from their summer vacations. This is my friend Andrew Bain. I know a couple other Andrews so I usually refer to Andrew Bain as "Andrew Bain." He agreed to pose for a photo illustrating a student obviously cheating with a computer for a Glencoe textbook called Computer Concepts.
This is my friend Jenn "with two 'n's." I was talking to her about the photos I needed to do and she agreed to model for a shot I did for a textbook called Digital Communications. This picture might persuade people to see the benefits of digital communication. Plus, Jenn is a great actress (possible Thespian).
This is one of the many, either very politically-motivated or socially-stimulating stencils I see sprayed around Washington, DC., like messages on a bullitin board. I also like the stencils sprayed on the sidewalk asking pedestrians, "How are you?" I took this picture from the base of a lamp post on the way back from Ben's Chilli Bowl with my friend Jesse.
I think I need this book for a class I am taking that starts Thursday. All photographers probably dream of someday having their photos in a textbook. I imagine the dream is along the lines of seeing a picture of your own in a text like A World History of Photography. The past few months have been taking a lot of photos to illustrate all types of textbooks ... none of them photography related.
Today I was happy to be back in DC. One of my friends, Theo is leaving town to go back to Durango, Colo., for school. A few of us met up at Swing's Coffee Shop to organize the departure ceremony, French Onion Soup, a pre-season Redskins' loss, and video golf. Three peculiar 80s-like activities.
This was the plane I caught to DC at Gate 50, at Orlando National Airport. My sister Patti dropped me off and waited there reading a book for two hours until my brother Rog and my nephew Will arrived from San Francisco.
This is my Mom, my sister, my niece, and my great-niece. I have a couple other nieces and another great niece down here in Florida. It's hard to get them all in the same place at the same time.
After I got back from Afghanistan a couple years ago I decided it would be a good idea to leave some things at my Mom's. This is an Osama bin Laden turbin still in the package. A woman reporting for NPR gave it to me. The rug in the background I gave to my sister Patti but I am taking it to DC with me to decorate my apartment. There is a book on the rug written by Osama that a photographer from Knight Ridder found in a cave and gave to me.
