Few, I finally got a little portrait making out of my system. One day I just brought my camera to work and pulled people out side to make their image. I find working with the students here really inspirational, I feel more inspired as staff at the college then I did when I was a student here. The third one down is really really different then the others, but I threw it in there anyway.

I went home last weekend and shot like crazy. It was so nice to be back on my turf. I know thatplace like the back of my hand. It was foliage season, obviously.

Here is another image from the thicket. A thesis for this project is slowly being made in my mind. Greek literature is what began this whole thing believe it or not. In all the stories I was reading I noticed how, often, cities and towns were gated, and to go beyond those gates put the characters in danger of the temptations of the untamed. To throw someone out of the city was often a punishment. The banished had to fend for them selves in the wilderness. It's just the beginning of my idea, I will see how it develops.

I am not exactly sure where this work is coming from, but I am absolutely loving making it. Maybe it is the result of looking at an Ansel Adams calender all year, or maybe it just being tiered of making portraits. I am enjoying the solitude of making on my own, portrait work is always a team operation. I can go into to the woods alone and shoot without being seen or seeing. The compositions that present themselves to me are sometimes phenomenal and I am always happily overwhelmed by the plants ability to overgrow each other.

My dear Zoe Brown, quite possibly my favorite sitter. Zoe visited me recently and we both agreed that a nice portrait of her with one front tooth was necessary. Besides this detail, Zoe seems to give a lot as a sitter, allowing me and all of you, to look at her in depth on our own time.

Ahhh summer. It is slowly leaving us behind. This is some of the family on the lake; Squam Lake actually, the same place that "On Golden Pond" was filmed. That is my Aunt Cassy all golden with sunlight.

This was finally the summer that I was able to commit to a dog. This is Sadie. Ryan and I rescued Sadie from Greyhound Friends in Hopkinton MA. Apparently Sadie was terrible at racing because her breeder got rid of her at a very young age. Before us, Sadie had been in two homes and she is only 2.5! The other homes rejected her for aggression problems, she did snip at us once on the first night we had her, but she has been a dream ever since. I think she just finally found the right home.