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Jordan Maisel: Howard County Girls Tennis Player of the Year

Glenelg junior Jordan Maisel was undefeated throughout the year, clenching the county and Region V  


John Healey: Howard County Boys Tennis Player of the Year

Atholton graduating senior John Healey was


Paige Hanson: Baltimore Messenger Girls Athlete of the Year

Bryn Mawr graduating senior Paige Hanson played top-level field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse for her school. She chose lacrosse as her collegiate sport of focus. Next year she will play for the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is photographed at St. Paul’s School Thursday, June 10, 2010.


Robbie Creese: Howard County Boys Runner of the Year

Glenelg junior Robbie Creese set a


Kory Britton: Howard County Baseball Player of the Year

Atholton junior shortstop Kory Britton is the


Jim Marlatt: Howard County Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year

River Hill senior Jim Marlatt led the Hawks with more than 70 goals and well over


Joe Meurer: The Towson Times Lacrosse Player of the Year

McDonogh senior Joe Meurer is the Towson Times boys lacrosse player of the year. He is photographed at Boys’ Latin School Thursday, June 3, 2010.


Casey Schmidt: Howard County Softball Player of the Year

Casey Schmidt: Howard County Softball Player of the Year

Glenelg’s Casey Schmidt is one of those powerhouses at the plate and on the pitching rubber. To clench the 2010 county championship she


For AARP Bulletin: NJ Taxes and the case of Corinne Bell

Below are photos I recently made for an AARP Bulletin story about how New Jersey’s high property taxes effect seniors on fixed incomes. Corinne Bell, partially obscured by artificial flowers on her kitchen table, has lived in the home she and her husband built for 52 years. The widow now lives with three cats, Tiny, Cece, [...]


10am Update: The saddest day.

With tears in his eyes, Matt Porter sits in a squad car under arrest as the suspect in an accidental shooting incident Tuesday September 2, 2003. Porter’s close friend, Rob Brickle, 21, below, a local late night DJ, was taken to the Medical Center of Central Georgia where he later died from his wounds. Porter [...]


10am Update: Shoot whatever you want, just not their faces.

A new playground for the abused and neglected children of The Ravens Courage House had an opening ceremony Friday January 20, 2005. For the children’s safety none of them are to be identified in the photo. So, what do you do when you can’t show faces? — thank your lucky stars for the sun location, [...]


10am Update: Ray Lewis for The Sporting News

Back in October, 2009, I got the opportunity to photograph one of the greatest defensive players ever, the


10am Update: Ceiling Leak

Dripping water from my kitchen ceiling leak. The water is shot against an underexposed fluorescent light. This was made in my old house in SoWeBo, Baltimore, Maryland May 11, 2006.


10am Update: Calvin Gholston, Jr

Nineteen year old Calvin Gholston Jr, just received his 25th and last leg lengthening surgery at Sinai Hospital Monday February 20th, 2006. The four-year anniversary of his life-changing surgery is coming up on the 20th. So, lets all collectively wish him well! Here is a link to the Catonsville Times article. We also did a [...]


10am Update: Hat and Gun

10am Update: Hat and Gun

The Almshouse in Cockeysville held ground for some Civil War reenactors, Saturday afternoon April 21, 2007. According to Civil War reenactor Ralph Aitkin, from Lewistown, PA, during the Civil War times, embalmers, were members of the upper class and doctors, by trade. They brandished fancy pistols to ward off thievery, and wore expensive hats to [...]


10am Update: Horns

10am Update: Horns

Jason “Horns” McComsey, from Thaddeus Stevens College in Pennsylvania, warms up, wearing a kilt, before the Javelin toss event in the 2007 Division III Outdoor Track & Field National meet held at Howard Community College Friday May 11, 2007. He threw the third farthest distance, 50.48 meters.


“We’re trying to hit that blue building over there.”

"We're trying to hit that blue building over there."

Dewayne Evans hits golf balls with his dad William Evans, and uncle William Evans, both out of frame, at Central City Park under an ominous sky mid afternoon Wednesday November 19, 2003. When asked what they were doing, Dewayne responded, “We’re trying to hit that blue building over there.” Up to that point, none of [...]


Teach(ing) For America

Teach(ing) For America

Barely illuminated by the overhead projector, David Donaldson explains the creative writing assignment to his second 9th grade English class of the day. He is in his second year as a