In January, after completing a mandatory orientation, I began volunteering as a dog walker for the Washington Animal Rescue League. I bought the official volunteer T-shirt that matched my avocado-green 50 cc Buddy, riding down to the shelter located on Oglethorpe Street in DC (conveniently close to my house in Takoma Park) a couple days...
Yearly Archives: 2010
Destino: Central American migration to the U.S.
Drawn to the frontier edginess and melancholy of the region, I began photographing along the U.S. – Mexico border in 2000, shortly after reading Cormac McCarthy’s, The Crossing. The novel begins with a boy finding a wolf caught in a trap on his family’s Arizona ranch. He treks across the Sierra Madres into Mexico to...
Marilena’s Bat Mitzvah
My last event of 2010 was Marilena’s Bat Mitzvah at the Lillian and Albert Small Museum in Washington, DC. The Bat Mitzvah girl did a superlative reading of the Haftorah. Minutes after transitioning to young adulthood, she and her many friends and family headed to Union Station to celebrate. For me, it was a welcomed...
Tina + John
Here are some highlights from Tina and John’s wedding on November 6 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Virginia. Situated in the heart of horse country, the church is an architectural marvel, built in 1960 in a 12th-century French medieval style that incorporates local sandstone. Taking photos during the ceremony is not permitted, so after...
Danielle + Becky’s wedding weekend in Chester, Vermont (August 20 – 21)
When Danielle, one of my best friends told me that she and Becky had settled on a date, I offered to photograph the wedding as a gift. They chose the Fox Chair Mountain Farm – a B & B situated on 46 acres of rambling countryside in Chester, Vermont for their wedding weekend. Most weddings...
Aryan + Chris at the Hotel Monaco in DC on August 14, 2010
Chris and Aryan’s wedding at the Hotel Monaco in DC was another first of sorts: my first wedding since coming back from Mexico in early August. Thank you guys! I couldn’t think of a better crowd with whom to have spent the day. Everyone was so alive! I can’t remember the last time I stuck...