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Boeing 737 factory, for Bloomberg

I’ve been here before, a few times actually, but it has been a while- not since the P-I I think. And actually I don’t think I could ever not enjoy spending the day shooting commercial airplanes being put together. It’s just cool.

Filson, for Bloomberg

I did some more shooting for Bloomberg News today, stills and video. I kind of love taking pictures in factories. There’s just a lot of cool visual stuff to play with. And the motion is mostly repetitive and highly predictable, making framing many degrees less frustrating than normal.

Navajo project gets some cyber love

Some early postings include Huffington Post, Truthout, The Nation, and MSNnews. Nice to see this stuff make some rounds.

Boeing, for Bloomberg

I’ve been shooting a bit for Bloomberg News of late, which has been nice. They like to look inside places that not everyone gets to see. Like Boeing’s 737 factory. This here is actually a 787 being delivered to China Southern. I’ll post the much more interesting factory pictures once the embargo has expired.

Aging out of foster care, for InvestigateWest

I’m excited to be working on another project for InvestigateWest, looking at where young folks are after they age out of foster care, and pending legislation that could help them adjust. 18 is still pretty darn young to be totally on your own, financially, etc.

On assignment, Navajo Nation for MCF

I’ve been putting together a video for MCF from my time in Arizona- came upon this image that I took my last day there. I’d decided to get up before dawn for the drive down to Flagstaff, knowing I’d arrive several hours early. I wanted one last crack at that gorgeous desert light.

Mark Vadon, for The Wall Street Journal

Zulily. Blue Nile. Now Home Depot. The first two he founded- he chairs all three. Wow. I can change the brakes on my van…how does that stack up?

Tree thievery, for Seattle Met

These are some images from a feature that I shot for Seattle Met about timber poaching in the Olympic National Forest. Great article. And perhaps more interesting than my pictures was how I got them. It’s not like there are maps drawn up to where folks poach trees. I was given GPS coordinates and told which road to start hiking from. All was going well until a.) my iphone battery died, and b.) a magnet on my camera strap reversed the polarity on my compass. And then it started raining.

Visit lovely Tacoma

I recently did some shooting in Tacoma for the good people at Saga City Media. The redesign on this vistors guide is sharp, and it totally makes sense that it’s born of the same crew that puts out Seattle Met.

8 days on the rez

Flying standby, waiting to board. Flagstaff. This past week has been…a lot of things, really. But no one thing more than exhausting. Since entering the land of the Navajo I’ve eaten lamb intestine, inhaled a cubic yard of windblown dust, met sheep herders, hairspray drinkers, and shamanic visionaries. I helped rustle cattle and photographed a miner’s son race a once-wild horse across an exposed seam of coal. But most indelible was achieving a vivid sense of how powerless so many people are out there. And the mine. The mine that eats everything. I’m very excited to wrangle with my images and video over the next couple weeks, working with Claudia Rowe to put together stories for Marguerite Casey, Equal Voice News and whomever else we can get to publish them.