SnarkInfested

03/12/10 Toni Myers, Producer/Director of “Imax Hubble 3D” on the red carpet for the premiere of her movie at the Air and Space Museum Tuesday (03/09) evening. She’s surrounded by astronauts from Hubble Space Telescope missions.

03/11/10 Last week, I had a two-day assignment photographing Harvard’s Zuckerman Fellows on their visit to DC. They met with a lot of  important people – members of the Obama administration as well as with senators, congressmen and Supreme Court justices. One of the highlights was their meeting with Kalpen Modi in the Old Executive Office Building.

“Kalpen Modi serves as a liaison to the White House with the Asian-American, Pacific Islander, and arts communities. He is also known by his stage name, Kal Penn, and was written out of the popular TV Series House in order to accept his current role with the Obama administration.  Prior to joining the Office of Public Engagement Modi taught at the University of Pennsylvania as an adjunct member in the Cinema Studies Program and served as a member of President Obama’s National Arts Policy Committee.”

03/09/10 The Rock Creek Chorus of the Gay Men’s Choir rehearsing on Massachusetts Avenue’s sidewalk Tuesday morning.

03/09/10 Protest on Dupont Circle.

03/08/10 Last week was pretty grueling. I had photo assignments each day which started at 6 a.m. and wound up with me photo editing until around midnight. On Thursday and Friday, I came outside to a couple of magnificent sunsets after being cooped up in offices for hours.

[This is the view I had as I exited the Old Executive Office Building on Thursday.]

[After a shoot at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday,  this is the Capitol at sunset.]

03/03/10 In Capitol Hill parlance, the “Cardinals” are the 13 chairmen of House Appropriations subcommittees. If that’s the case, then the head of the full committee, Rep. David Obey, must be Pope.

[Rep. David Obey D-WI]

[Notes taped to the huge mirror in the Chairman's office in the U.S. Capitol. That's a painting of President Garfield reflected on the far wall.]

02/27/10 Nephew Pat drives to the basket at the 7th grade CYO championship semifinals Saturday afternoon.

02/26/10 Dramatic photos taken from NYPD helicopters on 09/11 of the Twin Towers’ destruction were released in response to a Freedom Of Information request by ABC News . . . Bankrupt Polaroid is liquidating it’s vast photo collection – images taken by some of the world’s greatest photographers . . . Vote here if you like New York Magazine’s cover photo of Christina Hendricks in a corset . . . Magnum photo agency has moved it’s entire collection from NY to the University of Texas, Austin. The price of the sale was undisclosed but estimated at $30 million  . . . Don McCullin slideshow “Shaped by War” . . .  Reuters photographer released . . .Slideshow from the ‘Snowpocalypse‘ which hit Washington, DC in mid-February . . . Uproar over Haiti photo workshops in the wake of the devastating earthquake . . . Interactive portfolio about the civil rights era from The New Yorker . . . In case you were wondering: “Why The Swimsuit Issue Matters” . . . Another story on the “re-birth” of photo-j . . . And finally, actor Drew Carey has joined the Board of Directors of the National Press Photographer’s Association which caused some grumbling by members of a “publicity stunt” but was greeted with enthusiasm by many others.

[Drew Carey at the '03 White House Correspondent's Dinner]

02/25/10 Portrait of Yanday from my Open Studio shoot on Saturday 02/20. Makeup by LaT.

02/24/10 An emotional Akio Toyoda, president and CEO of Toyota Motors, thanked Toyota employees for their support at an event held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  following a day of grueling congressional testimony.