I hereby end my three week hiatus by posting this butterfly.

A photo of mine recently won the Distinguished Sports Photography category for the New York News Publishers Association in the 50,000-175,000 circulation class. Awards are presented for 15 traditional print categories (including sports, feature and news photography) in addition to several online/multimedia categories in five circulation classes. P-S reporter John O’Brien was also honored for Distinguished Investigative Reporting as well as Dave Tobin for his blog “Following Orion.”

McLain Ward’s horse, Phillipa, refuses a jump in the Pasmore Stables Horseman’s Cup during the Syracuse Sporthorse Invitational October 30, 2008 at the Onondaga County War Memorial. Lauren Long / The Post-Standard

I recently did some work for the American Federation of Teachers, profiling food service workers and healthy options in school cafeterias. Here’s a link to the current May/June issue of the publication in which the images appear, PSRP Reporter.

As a kid who brought her own lunch to school, never really finding the greasy pizzas and chicken fingers appealing, I have to say it’s great to see schools taking the initiative to provide students with fresh fruits and veggies and fried food alternatives (beyond just apples, bananas and iceberg lettuce.)