The Washington Center - Hands Across DC

I recently photographed students from The Washington Center volunteering their time to paint an elementary school in northeast Washington, DC. Most of the work was to repaint the school's parking lot lines, as well as touch up some of the murals inside the school.

Working On Thesis Show

Thesis work hangs a week from tomorrow. All my images are printed, and my frames are bought. Now I'm just waiting for the mats to be cut and it will be all ready.
My final layout will hopefully resemble this, but with nice prints, and frames. I've also been passing out postcards like crazy. I think 500 postcards was maybe a bit too many to buy.

They get off the water

“My expenses, since I’ve started doing it, most all my expenses have tripled. But the price of, price of that fish, on average has stayed about the same. I mean that’s why you see so many people, see a lot of people, hear about more people getting off the water, looking for other jobs. It’s not a lot of what you read about, or hear about, is lack of fish or crabs, that’s not why people get off the water. They get off the water. I’m catching just as many fish or crabs on average, or more a year, than I ever have. But the expenses are just outweighing the prices. A lot of the stuff you hear about, read about, it’s about this great plight of the Chesapeake bay, but that’s not so. it’s just, not profitable. It’s getting less and less profitable to do it every year. And it’s a shame, because the fishing and crabbing has really been, you know, good. But it’s just not, you just can’t profit any money because of that expenses. I’ve been in business, This’ll be the 16^th year I’ve been in business for myself, here. My prices are just, about I mean identical, identical to when I started.”

-Greg Swift, pound net fisherman. Reedville, Virginia.

Watermen Come Through

This morning I ate my first raw oyster, straight from the river. This is that oyster.