Divinity

I nearly blinded myself staring directly into the sun while taking pictures of this steeple but hey thats the life i chose.

McNabb's fallen and he can't get up.

I went to Eagles training camp out at Lehigh University last tuesday. Long drive and long day. I stupidly stayed out till 4 a.m. the night before and had to leave at 6:30 am to get there. So I was tired. really tired. Luckily my boss got for a hotel room for us so between practices i went and I napped. I of course took thousands of pictures but we've all seen your average football action photos so i'm not posting them. After the first practice I was walking alongside Donovan McNabb after and he had just finished signing autographs for an hour. So as we're walking i ask hm whats more exhaustng, signing autographs for screaming fans or playing football, he muttered something incoherently, grunted and fell to the ground. I was the only one around with a camera. very luckly. very wierd.

Looky here ma, cousin Georgie's on stage

President Bush took center stage, well actually more like far right stage today in our fairly frantic city of murder and mayhem. He opened with the obligatory nonsense of promising to fix social security and education but didn't really seem to warm up or even wake up until he breached the topic of dare I say it... TERRORISM. Boy did he take off once those words purged his loose lips. His beedy eyes shot wide open like an owl's on the move and there was no stopping him. It was fairly entertaining and afterwards I was mildly harrassed by a bored secrect service agent who most likely saw me as a threat due to my majestic semitic appearance. All in all a good start to my day.

Keeping cool on the hard hot streets of Kenzo

KABOOM

And as the moon drew ever high and the light grew dim a mighty flame roared up and burned the sky.

Rainy Day

Been raining round these parts. Rained today. Rained Yesterday. Gon' rain tomorrow too.

Patience. Lots of patience needed.

Baseball as I'm sure many of you know is boring. very boring. especially if you're photographing it. You set up to snap a shot pitch after pitch hoping for something: a hit, a hit batsman, a cleat to someone balls on a slide, but rarely do you bear witness to said events. Instead you get a swing and a miss, or a ball, or the batter calling timeout to rearrange his 1-1 count (ok not such a good analogy for balls but i tried) anyway i shot these at a game today.

People on a cold flat roof

These people climbed out onto their roof to watch police swarm and arrest two 13-year-olds who tried to mug two women. stupid kids. THE WHOLE WORLDS WATCHING.

Funny name; Serious Business

I was fortunate enough to attend my first rally for a presidential candidate and i gotta say it was a good time. Barack seems like a decent guy. his staff let me steal a bottle of water from under the stage while i was taking pictures so thats cool. he'll win votes by hydrating americans, then the world. good sound policy if you ask me. Vote Obama... maybe.

MUMIA FEST 2007

So we've had anti war protests, pro war rallies, parades, and marches and never has there been a turnout like today's mumia gathering. way to come out for something actually worthwhile philly. way to go.

Michael Nutter has a thought

"YEAH BITCH, I'M gonna take this city to a whole NUTTER level!!!

Cerebral Perfection

Only a head like Nutters could produce such a sleek and shiny profile. That's Mayoral Qulity Baldness.

Big Ass Ship Plus Seagulls is not really interesting at all

So this morning i had to go down to Penn's Landing to photograph a big ass navy ship coming into port. I thought it would be much more interesting but it turns out i was quite wrong. I just sat waiting... waiting... waiting... for what felt like hours for this oversized dingy to approach. All i could hope for what for this ship to accidently fire its very large and most dangerous guns and blow up the ride the ducks boat. man that would surely appease my soul. ( for those of you who don't know, prior to actually getting a real job as a photographer I served as the ride the ducks souveneir photo guy. just another chapter in my storied past.) well this is one of the only photos i can bear to look at or work on besides a friendly little lady bug i shot that happened to land nearby. enjoy.