And… just in case you didn’t see yourself in the last video…

Just over 900 images comprise this time-lapse video of the transition area at this year’s Woolsports mini-Mussel sprint triathlon at Seneca Lake State Park. The camera was set to photograph every 20 seconds, continuously, for 5 hours. (Starting well before your 750 meter swim – 16.1 mile bike – 3.2 mile run) Did I catch you in transition?

“Flight of the Bumblebee” Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, performed by The US Army Band

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.)

I’m a little overdue in posting these, so let me start with a bit of background info. Earlier this year, I was asked to work on a portrait project, documenting a renewed sense of self resulting from a first-ever tattoo. If you know of anyone with tattoos, there’s often a story that goes along with each. Taylor’s story involves numerous surgeries that left her scarred – emotionally – and very visibly across the lower back. She went from a self-confident and secure woman to someone with a sense of having lost all beauty. Fifteen years went by before she had the idea and gathered up the courage to get a tattoo, something that she says completely changed her life and has made her feel beautiful again.

Taylor approached me about photographing her in a way that would show the tattoo in a classic, sexy, tasteful way. The more I thought about it, the more I thought it would be neat to contrast the beauty that this experience has brought to her life with the rough, scarred backdrop of a worn-down interior space, which we found. Thank you, Taylor, for your amazing cooperation. I don’t think anyone would know that we spent two hours in an unheated building during the dead of winter in Central New York!

A few photos from a Buffalo, NY home I recently photographed for Cutolo Interiors. Julie has a great eye and personality to match if you’re looking for interior design work in the Western New York area!

A few photos from a rally held at Edward Smith School in Syracuse protesting $1.4 billion in proposed aid to education budget cuts.

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