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This summer, I traveled to St. Louis to make some pictures for the Arthritis Foundation AR. The little girl above has juvenile arthritis.

Her mom is a yoga instructor and part of her treatment is practicing yoga.

This woman does water aerobics to help with her arthritis.

I photographed Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate for president, for Atlanta Magazine.

I really love this spread.

I really like these black and white portraits on white, too.

Yep, that's my paper towel.

Carver's is a meat and three out on Marietta ST. It's been there since the 70's and it's awesome. They fed me and my crew. Then we all had heart attacks.

I went to the literary archives at Emory University and photographed some really cool things like Salmon Rushdie's personal journals and W.B. Yeats' handwritten manuscripts.

I traveled to Charleston to make some pictures of a brunch for Charleston Home Magazine. They gave me a listing on the contributors page.

Oysters.

The host was French and his mother and aunt spoke little English. They were cute.

It was a busy morning for me and the host.

The presentation was pretty amazing.

I made some photography for Interface. They make those really cool Flor tiles.

There's one of the lake trash images I shot as a personal project. I'm getting a little mileage out of those pictures.

We had a great Christmas. We hang our stockings early December and, secretly, we each add little gifts to each other's stockings over the few weeks before we open them up Christmas morning. Finn pulled his new stocking cap from his stocking and proudly put it on by himself.

Melody made this dress for Iliana. She made a similar one for my neice. The two girls wore those dresses for three days straight.

I photographed a feature for the schools issue of Atlanta Magazine. I really love that picture above made at a Parkview High football practice.

These kids made these robots using a LEGO kit, then wrote code to control them. Pretty cool.

More from Parkview....

Some of the big brains at North Springs.

This is the Dekalb School for the Arts. Super cool high school.

Best all around: Woodward Academy.

These little kids were really cute in their lab coats. Kindergarteners.

I worked with Unboundary to produce the core narrative piece for Interface.

They take old carpet and process it for making new carpet fiber.

Dave collected all this blue trash.

Those are Dave's hands holding the book.

This was shot at HOK. They have the most beautiful lobby I have ever seen.

This renewal packet is for the 08-09 season, but I just got my hands on a copy this year.

Went back to Trinidad last week with Iconologic to shoot some more for the Trinidad and Tobago image library. We focused a lot on downstream petrochemicals. Here I am at a methanol plant.

Ditto....

Justin succumbs to fatigue in the back of the van. We worked pretty long days.

Doesn't everyone just love a rainbow? Even from the vantage point of a methanol plant?

Martha joined us as art director.

Next day at another plant. We had to outfit in all kinds of safety gear.

It's hard not to look good in protective clothing and hard hat, but we found a way.

We also made pictures at one of the schools.

Juliet, Martha and I review images.

SamataMason is sending me on a two week job for Whirlpool Corp, shooting their annual report. I'm shooting HD video. They will take my footing and pull stills for the printed AR and edit the video into movies for each brand. We've been to Iowa, Italy and Germany. Now we're in Benton Harbor, MI. Heading to Brazil next. Above is an image from Varese, Italy where we had time to visit Sacri Monti.

Chapels were built on this mountain in the late sixteenth century. People travel here on pilgrimage. It's pretty impressive.

Inside the chapels are statues depicting scenes from the life of Christ. Justin and I are taking a peek inside one of the chapels (you can see Kevin's reflection in the glass).

When we got nearly to the top, we stopped at a cafe for a cappuccino and a panoramic view of the valley below at sunset.

Justin.

Kevin.

Me.

At the very top was a really beautiful little chapel. We came in just as the priest was closing up.

That's Justin and a German taxi driver. Our experiences with German cabbies left us with the impression that they are an embittered clan, only reluctantly devoted to their vocation.

Thanks to Kevin at SamataMason for all the pics!