A new year and it’s time to start the tech upgrades: this time a new Wiebetech RAID box a my primary image storage. It’s quite impressive how for down the pricing for this technology has come.

And the file transfer was done in a few days. Now I upgrade the offsite storage and we’re ready for a great year in photos…

Finally in Washington, DC, saw the Richard Avedon exhibit. It really puts a lot of things into perspective, especially some current photography that are so overly praised, but are just mediocre.

People tend to forget the true greatness and quality photography can and should have.

Makes me want to shoot with 8×10 and/or on white again.

What a great day, i’ve never seen DC so crowded and never seen so many port-a-pottys. This has to be turning point in world history.

I liked my perspective of being in the middle of it all, and my little tilt shift version of events. It’s so interesting how every event is now geared toward TV coverage and people are just snapping pictures of everything.

Sometimes people forget to actually be in the moment, event planers forget to cater to the actual present audience. But then again the images will live on and the memory fades.

Something that was most visible at the Neighborhood Ball, half the room was a staged event, with the crowd being part of the live telecast, the other a dark area with mediocre food and 3 bars that felt straight out of a prom movie, with paper tickets et all.

But we got to see POTUS & FLOTUS doing the very “First Dance” to Beyonce (?, Really no Etta available?) singing “At Last”…

Yeah, i can’t believe it’s been a year. Still in rehab twice a week and still in pain once in a while. I can’t wait to be back in full force and hate the limitations all of this still has on me.

But i do survive the gym now even outside the pool so my progress is mare than fantastic.

And thanks to everyone who supported me during the last very trying year (I think of the jump shoots for Conde Nast’s Portfolio and Departures, what an irony).