After a fire, Trenton Firefighter Gary Szabo whips out his camera to sneak a candid photo of several news photographers standing across the street, but not before I shot him first! When he's not busy fighting fires and rescuing people, Gary shoots video for the local TV news channel, WZBN. And for more from this day's fire, go to 1stResponder.

West Windsor Plainsboro South High School swimmer Rachel Sartor swims to a first place finish in the 100m backstroke in the state finals cheered on by her mom, Kay, and others.

Здравствуйте! Which I sincerely hope means "Hello" in a language my new Russian friend can understand. That's him sitting on the bench in front of the former Princeton Junction Volunteer Fire Co HQ. I had an assignment to photograph the building. He walked by and we started talking photography.

I'm a monkey! At least according to the Chinese Animal Zodiac. Rider University held a Chinese New Year celebration featuring a luncheon and various performances by students.

It's Valentine's Day and that means that the mayor of the City of Trenton, Doug Palmer, born in Trenton himself, will be marrying couples at City hall from noon to 1pm. It's an interesting mix of people who choose this day and this spot to tie the knot.

By the way, Mayor Palmer says he's officiated at over 2000 nuptuals in his career.

Here, the happy couple admires a digital photo taken of them by their daughter.

I had two basketball games to photograph for deadline one night. The first game, girls, Trenton Catholic Academy at Peddie, in Hightstown, was the sports frontpage color which means that had to be filed before shooting the 2nd game. This could never happen without two key components, motor drive and computer. First, I allowed myself the luxury of shooting two quarters at the girls game before rushing to West Windsor Plainsboro at home vs Princeton High where I worked on images from the girls game and filed from the library. Then it was onto the court to photograph one quarter of the boys game and send them from the gym where I had my laptop set up. Deadlines met.

The lighting at the gym at Peddie is way dim, but I hate using flash for sports, so I set my ISO 1t 1600 and shot from high up looking down, so at least the players would be looking up into the lights.

This player, Lakeisha Sutton, provided a nice image as she went airborn toward two of her 30 points. leading her team to victory.

The gym at West Windsor Plainsboro was just as dim, but there's no balcony, so I went down low on the floor.

Just got back from a weekend in the Lancaster, PA area with friends. Downtown Lancaster has a lot going on these day, including a growing art community. There is, of course, a main drag expressway (Rt. 30) with every store and outlet store imaginable cutting a path through the sprawling farmland of Pennsylvania Dutch country on either side. I made this photograph with a very long lens on a misty Sunday morning. (The telephoto lens allows me to be pretty far away.) Although I've never had one tell me in person, I hear The Amish don't like having their picture taken. Maybe I should have asked the hard-working horse.