My boss told me he was going to want me to get a weather photo the next day, but as every National Geographic photographer wannabe knows, the best light is usually around dawn and dusk. So I had three choices, wait until the next day and take my chances with the glaring, overhead sun, wait until the next day and wake up at dawn (?!?) or wait until dusk later that day. It wasn't a tough choice, especially since there are more people around at dusk than dawn. After I went home, I waited a couple of hours and went out "in search of." I soon found a park and a young man fishing in a pond. The dwindling light was right and the soft glow of the lights from a little league baseball game next to the pond even helped brighten up the young lad. I braced my elbows on a fence and made the exposure. I left the horizon slightly tilted as I originally shot it because it to me it looks like the curvature of the earth. In fact, with the blue water and green moss, the pond looks like the earth. The only problem is it's a horizontal and they need a vertical for the cover of a magazine. Doh!

I discovered a previously unkown fact today while at St George Greek Orthodox Church in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. Jesus rose two times. Hey, I didn't say it. A parishoner did, although it was tongue-in-cheek. Today is Easter (the day celebrating the rising from the dead of Jesus Christ) according to Greek Orthodox tradition, whereas the rest of Christianity celebrated Easter last Sunday. Anyway, before there's hell to pay, let me tell you I can't imagine a better church for photography. The iconography, the artwork and the lighting, not to mention the people! Absolutely georgeous! I always feel humbled to be a welcome guest in something as personal to a group of people as a house of worship.

Nothing but blue skies (with the help of a polarizing filter) last Thursday around downtown Trenton.

A section of side wall falls from what was a prison as demolition progresses on the area located behind the Old Mercer County Courthouse on S. Broad and Market Streets.



Warm weather has encouraged flowers to bloom and pedestrians to walk along West State Street near the statehouse.

Mazel Tov! Clockwise from top left; Princeton University student Ethan Ludmir, a board member of Chabad on Campus, holds up the new Torah at a dedication ceremony held at the Rockefeller College Common Room on the campus of Princeton University. Following the dedication ceremony, the new Torah is carried by Zvi Webb (various people took turns) in a procession to its permanent home in the Chabad House, just off campus. A student reads music taped to the person walking in front of him. Later when I asked Zvi for his name for the caption, he gave it to me along with a brief history of Judaism. (I did give him permission to explain what was happening even though I've photographed quite a few Torah dedications. He was a very nice man.)

The American Boychoir and Alumni Choir, eighty men and boys, spanning six decades, present their Annual Homecoming Concert at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 801 West Street, Trenton. Inside the church, with violins and cellos playing and those voices, the sound was beyond understanding.

Now that Spring has arrived...


Last Saturday night I saw my best friend and his wife and they told me they were thinking of calling me because earlier that day two neighborhood girls were hanging around outside reading in the mild weather. Well they were hanging around alright, up in a tree reading. Since I was working the next day I said to give me a call if they climb up there again and they did, so off I went and here it is.

When it ran in the paper, editor Bill Mooney used the headline "Library branches."

How much personality can one three-year-old have? Here's your answer. Ryan Schultz, 3, who has been diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is the center of attention, in this family photo. (The kid is a total charmer.) His father, David, left, has started a foundation called Ryan's Quest, "to increase awareness of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with the purpose of allocating funds for research that has the greatest potential of finding a cure or treatment for this disease." Most patients are wheelchair dependent by age 12. Life expectancy varies from early teens to age mid 30s. Ryan's mom, Maria is at right feeding Ryan's one-month-old brother, Mason.