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After six years of entry fees, anticipation and eventual disappointment, this year I have finally been accepted into the Communication Arts Photo Annual! The entries are part of the personal project I shot on garbage I collected from the receding shoreline of Lake Lanier. They were featured in the gallery section of the Cooper Carry HERE magazine, and I entered them in the Institutional category listing Iconologic and the HERE magazine. Look for the photo annual this August. Hooray!!!

I have a spread in this month's issue of Atlanta Magazine. These are some pictures I made with my Lomo on a trip to Cumberland Island four or five years ago. You can take a better look at the pictures here.

I made a portrait for Inc. Magazine about a month ago. Here's the reproduction in the magazine.

I have to post a pretty lengthy entry about my brief trip to T&T. I feel like I made some of the best pictures of my career thus far while I was down there. I spent a good bit of time at Port Lisas. This guy puts shoes on the shipping containers before they are loaded onto a ship.

This guy worked at a different dock.

Unloading grain...

Tying up a big ship.

These guys get to work in really cool outfits.

They finished up shortly after I got there.

Naturally, there were loads of shipping containers at the port.

There are so many amazing pictures to be made here. I can hardly wait to return!

I went to the top of this crane. It's like 10-12 stories high.

I made this picture while I was up there.

This was on a ship.

Office.

The people of Trinidad and Tobago are simply wonderful. We stopped several people on a market street and made their picture. This guy is a security guard.

There's a large park in Port of Spain called the Savannah. There were kids practicing relays and guys practicing rugby.

Rugby players.

They did a lot of push ups.

They were working really hard at this.

Trinidadians are very cool looking people.

This is my driver, Rodger.

He plays in a steel orchestra. We stopped by where they practice to eat our lunch.

The space can be rented out for events, like dances.

He taught me how to play a bit. I'm not very good yet.

We then went to the beach and ate bake and shark. That's a sandwich of fried shark.

She serves a fine bake and shark.

There are assorted condiments you can put on your bake and shark. I put tamarind sauce and pepper sauce. The local beers are Stag and Carib. Stag is "the man's beer." My driver and I had Stags with our bake and shark.

Two series of images have made it to the final jury selection for the Graphis Photo Annual. The final judging takes place sometime in the next two months, meaning I won't find out if my images are ultimately going to be in the annual until sometime in July. Even if they aren't selected, I'm excited they have made it this far! The first series is photography of the Atlanta Thrashers (Atlanta's NHL team) I made for Atlanta Magazine. The second is of the series on trash I collected at Lake Lanier.

Hossa was traded this season.

Havelid looks like a storm trooper here.

Holik is a really nice guy, but he can put on a tough face.

The lake stuff has already been accepted into the CA Photo Annual.

Tire...

Battery.

I'm in St. Louis this weekend with Melody and Finn. I have a shoot for the Arthritis Foundation Annual Report tomorrow and brought them with me. Iliana is spending the weekend with the grandparents.

We can see the arch from our hotel window.

There's this tiny TV in the bathroom.

The bellboy told me they're looking to renovate soon. I kind of like it the way it is.

This afternoon, we went to the arch. Tickets to the top were sold out, so we're going to try again in the morning.

Mr. Finn and I make a good team.

Our friends Jon and Joanna came to visit us from New York this weekend. Jon and I grew up together and have been great friends since.

We spent Saturday afternoon at the Brew at the Zoo sponsored by Sweetwater Brewing. Sunscreen made for fine hair product, allowing us to shape Finn's first faux-hawk.

Iliana lost a few teeth while I was in Trinidad. Those nubby grown-up teeth have cut through.

We sat and watched the gorillas for while. On Sunday, the grandparents watched the kids while the four of us went to Six Flags. We were able to hit all the rollercoasters, then me and Melody topped everything off by doing the Fearless Freeps. I found a video on YouTube here. We were harnessed to a cable, then dropped from a ten-story height. Melody and I didn't have the breath to scream like the girl in this video.

It was exciting introducing them to Finn. Jo and Finn became good pals.

It was great to see them.

Iliana is no longer a kindergartner. Today there was a brief graduation in her classroom. She's ready for first grade.

But not before she eats her celebratory donuts.

Mmmmmmm....

That smile has donut written all over it.

Finn didn't get a donut, but he was happy anyway.