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DC Socialite Andrea Rodgers hosts the Capital City Ball Kick off Party to benefit Innocents at Risk at The Georgetown Club.

09/16/09 Fashionistas like my friend Malinda (photo above) came out Wednesday night for the DC-based charity Fashion Fights Poverty’s ’09 Look Book launch party at L2 in Georgetown. FFP’s big event is a huge fashion show which takes place next Friday at the Mayflower Hotel.

09/16/09 Wednesday afternoon I took pix at an end of summer BBQ at Mologne House on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital sponsored by the National Pork Board.

This was a great event.  America’s pork producers doing lunch for wounded soldiers, their families and staff. The volunteers from the National Pork Board grilled and grilled until they ran out of buns and then kept on grilling and serving wounded vets and medical personnel until they completely ran out of food. Before they started, I heard that they had enough to serve 2000 people!

Celebrity Chef Mark Salter of The Inn at Perry’s Cabin enjoys The Other White Meat as much as the next guy.

Checking the meat’s temperature.

The ladies are from the Washington Capitals’ dance team.

The Hogettes.

Lunch with President Washington.

09/14/09 How did I let a week go without photoblogging? Things pick up in DC as August ends. Congress gets back in town. School starts:

[09/09/09 Last minute primping before 1st day of pre-school for my beautiful niece Ella Rose.]

On Wednesday I was hired to shoot the opening of a new place on I Street called Black Finn:

[09/09/09 My brother Tim clowning with our friend KJ at the  "First Look VIP Party" at Black Finn American Saloon 1620 I Street.]

[Victoria and Pamela bookend Jim Kimsey]

I covered a fashion event on Thursday night that involved a number of my friends.  3 teams competed in a fashion challenge at Neiman’s Chevy Chase.

[Model: Anna C.]

[Project Beltway's Rachel Cothran was one of the judges.]

[My friend Jade snaps a pic.]

[The winning team celebrates - a $1000 check went to the team representing Pediatric AIDS charity.]

Also on Thursday night, I made it down to Gin and Tonic for their 1st Birthday party . . .

So I’m all caught up now. Whew!

09/07/09 Labor Day Weekend ended on a high note.  I took (along with my sister Kelly and our friend Arnon) a roundabout way home from the farm, stopping to visit Sunnyside – the home of author Washington Irving – and then crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge and into New Jersey for a great dinner at a Portuguese restaurant in Newark, NJ. Who knew that Newark had an enclave of Portuguese and Brazilians? Not me.

[Sunnyside]

This was once the most famous house in America. After a lifetime of travel, author Washington Irving made his home at Tarrytown on the Hudson in 1835. Many luminaries visited him here – including 2 Presidents, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, etc.   Though he is best remembered for 2 of his short stories – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle – Irving wrote over 40 books and in many ways is still considered the Father of American literature.

[Somebody left some change by the bust.]

[Front gate. Sunnyside was at the forefront of romantic landscape architecture - a sort of a planned looking wildness to stand in contrast to the formal topiary and rigid grids of English and French gardens.   The most important example of this style is Central Park in New York City, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted who got the job after a recommendation by Washington Irving.]

09/06/09 Yesterday afternoon Georgia came by Ryan Farm for a shoot. We’ve been out of touch for a bit so it was great to see her and we took some cool images at various spots on the property. We shot until it got dark and the batteries in my flash and my portable strobe died.

09/05/09 I drove from DC to my family’s farm in the Hudson Valley last night. I got a late start leaving and didn’t arrive until after 2 a.m. This is what I saw in the sky when I got out of the car.

09/03/09 My next Open Studio shoot will be held on the last Saturday in September: 09/26/09.

I’ll be in studio all day taking fashion/beauty images. Professional make-up artist is provided and models can bring unlimited wardrobe changes. These shoots are for anyone needing images for their portfolio/comp cards but also if you just need an elegant headshot for work or your webpage, etc.

Contact me at hillpix@yahoo.com if you are interested.

09/02/09 Bartender Jack Winston (far left) and revelers who wished to remain anonymous attend a party at the Axis Bar & Grill on U Street in D.C. Wednesday night to celebrate the release of former Rep. Jim Traficant (D Ohio) from 7 years in prison.

From the invitation. . .

You’re invited:
The Beam Me Up Committee sponsors a “Free at Last, Free at Last” party to celebrate former Rep. James Traficant’s (D-Ohio) release from the slammer, after several long, long, long years of incarceration. Hey, we’ve missed him!

Traficant is scheduled to be sprung from a Minnesota federal prison sometime on Wednesday.

The ever-flamboyant lawmaker was expelled from the House of Representatives in 2002, by a vote of 420-1. The lone ‘nay’ vote was cast by former Rep. Gary ‘Profile in Courage’ Condit (D-Calif.).

All men attendees should wear thin ties in lieu of toupees and Traficant’s trademark denim suits (which are just too hot too damn hot to wear in the summer).  All women attendees should wear cowboy boots, cause he was always kinda partial to those.

All attendees will be forced to work on their boss’s farm or  houseboat for free at a future date. No-shows will be kicked in-the-crotch.

The fun aka “Special Orders” starts at 7pm
Axis Bar, 1340 U Street NW