It's time to play another round of "You be the editor!" Two different views of a frozen fountain at Princeton University and you can only use one. Which would you choose? The horizontal is a more literal interpretation, showing the fountain more in context with the surrounding buildings. The vertical is a little more abstract, possible only because a Leslie E. Gerwin, associate director of Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs politely allowed me into her office to get this high angle view. Remember the newspaper has deadlines. They're holding the front page. Which one will it be?
It's kind of a trick question. If you really were the editor, the choice would be easy. You'd have known the first minute you saw them. Use whichever one fits the hole in your pre-planned layout. Doh!

Yesterday, I was privileged to document the wedding day of Jean & Paul. Jean is an endocrinologist, but, she would also be a great pediatrician. There were so many children at the wedding and they were all totally well-behaved! I worked for The Times on Sunday, but I was so anxious to get started with the photographs from Jean & Paul's wedding that I'm working on them even though the the Eagles-Giants game is on!

I got the early shift on election day. Locally, at least, voter turnout was good. It was only 7:30 am and the line at Trenton High School west stretched for the length of the the building and beyond.

This man, feeling the history of the situation, took a family portrait inside their polling place, the First Baptist Church in the south ward of the City of Trenton.

While running from polling place to place early in the morning, I came across these two women at a busy traffic intersection in Ewing Township, showing their support for Barack Obama, when a pedestrian came along.

'tis the season...for more soccer fun.

Mackenzie Shaw, 1 1/2, of Hamilton (in her imagination) rides a horse-drawn carriage made by her dad, a carpenter by trade, at a Spooktacular Halloween event held at Mercer County Park in West Windsor, New Jersey.

Soccer is not for the faint-hearted. In this high school game between Steinert and Notre Dame, one of the competitors goes "Rock, paper, scissors" on his opponent. In that game, rock beats scissors, but in soccer...ouch!

The Philadelphia Eagles are back home after a bye week, so I'm back to football, too. Eagles tight end LJ Smith, who graduated Rutgers, was leveled by a really late hit from Falcons cornerback Lawyer Malloy. The ball never made it near Smith and Malloy still took a few steps and unloaded on an unsuspecting Smith. LJ eventually got up and walked off to the locker room with a concussion, but not before Malloy was flagged for unnecessary roughness, Ya think?






Below, this is LJ Smith earlier in the game successfully stretching toward the first-down marker.