US Capitol flag at half staff.

Senator Ted Kennedy comes down from Capitol Hill for the last time.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D RI) sits in the front seat of his father’s hearse.

Spectators on the steps of the Labor Department.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Corner of 3rd and Constitution Ave.

The new senior Senator from Massachusetts stopped waving when he saw me for some reason.

Anne Jones of Severna Park, MD:  “I’m here because he was the last of the great Senators and he got things done.”

08/27/09 Charity fashion show at L2 in Georgetown produced by my friend Indrid Ellmore.

08/26/09 When I heard of Senator Kennedy’s death, I thought about all the photos I’d taken of him during my 6 years as photographer at The Hill Newspaper and afterwards.

Above is one of my favorite images. It was taken last April, a month before his brain cancer was diagnosed. Senator Kennedy chats with students from Harvard’s Institute of Politics as his 2 dogs wander around the room in Dirksen SOB.

Here’s a couple more from the same day:

[Note the dog's leashes on the table next to him.]

Chef Michel Richard, owner of Citronelle (often referred to as the best restaurant in DC) in Georgetown and Central on Pennsylvania Ave.

[08/23/09 Barn down the road from my family's farm.]

[08/22/09 My niece Ella Rose in the 1st field of Ryan Farm.]

08/20/09 For many years now, I’ve been filling up School Composition notebooks with photos, ideas for shoots, sketches, client info, locations, names and numbers, receipts  and on and on. One of my reasons for starting Snarkinfested has been to transition my notebooks to digital form.

[Vendor outside the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in 2000]

[Twins]

[10/22/02 Nelson Mandela visits South African Embassy in Washington, DC with Ambassador Sheila Sisulu.]

[Test Polaroids from one of my studio shoots.]

08/16/09 Saturday night I went to see my glamorous Czech friend Liba in a fashion show at K Street Lounge. The show was scheduled to begin at 8pm but knowing how these things go, I got there at 8:30 and was not shocked when the show did not start til after 9. They put me in a photo pen at an odd angle to the runway.  It’s a small venue with lots of photographers and I only recognize a couple of them. I like to think I know most of the pro photogs in town if only to nod at. Who are these guys?

There were three designers.  SCO ROUGE by designer Sasha Corrodus-Odom went first with her Fall Collection. My overall impression of her work was that I saw a lot of red and black. I chatted with her after the show and I liked her so I’ll give her an A+.  SCO ROUGE was followed by menswear by Andrew Nowell. His work seemed derivative of the Matrix.  The largest portion of the evening was taken up by Walish Gooshe Spring/Summer 2010 designs by Greg Taylor and his stuff seemed functional and not outlandish. What do I know? I’m just happy I went because the blaring techno music seemed to open up the swimmer’s ear in my left ear which I brought back from the beach last week.

Had a couple of cocktails with the models and called it a night.

[I don't see the flower-wreath-antler-look catching on]

[Liba and friends]

[Model: Alexius Diana]

[A study in contrast.]

[Back-less by SCO ROUGE]

[Profile]

[That's Liba in the jacket during the runway parade finale.]

08/15/09 Over 100 muralists, artists, and the public painting a wall larger than a football field in the Edgewood neighborhood in Northeast.

What: Edgewood Mural Jam
Who: 100 public artists and the community painting a wall bigger than a football field
Where: Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center, 680 Rhode Island Ave NE (behind the stores), next to Rhode Island WMATA Station on Red Line

[Chor Boogie - artist from San Diego]

[Ceasar Maxim and Decoy]