Sunday, November 30, 2008


The weekend is over now, but last Friday, I got to photograph Malka Dubov, wife of Rabbi Dovid Dubov, of Chabad of Mercer County, observing the Jewish tradition of lighting Shabbat candles in their home. Friends of the family, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah Holtzberg, were killed during a terror attack on the Chabad center in Bombay. Others in photo from left are Devorah Leah Dubov, 3, Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Chaya Malka Dubov, 20 and Rivka Dubov, 5. The portrait in background is of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who was the inspiration for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah Holtzberg to go to Bombay, according to Rabbi Dubov. I've photographed Rabbi Dubov throughout the years on various assignments, but never before in his home and this day when he asked me if I were Jewish, I confessed "Only by association".


Thursday, November 27, 2008

From left, eighteen-month-old Tyler Hupfl and his uncle, Dylan Lee,14, look over some of the live turkeys at their family's Lee Turkey Farm on Hickory Corner Rd in East Windsor, New Jersey. Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday, November 21, 2008

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!

Sunday, November 9, 2008



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!


Tuesday, November 4, 2008

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.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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.