Classical guitarist Eliot Fisk photographed at the New England Conservatory in Boston for a story in the New York Times. During our session Mr. Fisk played the guitar almost the entire time. It was a real treat to hear him play pieces such as Bach’s Cello Suite adapted for guitar.

I photographed a story in the July issue of Smithsonian Magazine about efforts in the mid-19th century to trademark fruit by horticulturalist Charles Hovey. He used artists to create drawings of the fruit as a document to identify different varieties and bound them in a multi-volume book called The Fruits of America. The story is a very interesting example of early intellectual property.

Hovey was also a three year president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The MHS, which is located currently at Elm Bank in Wellesley, MA, was where these photos were made. The reservation also happens to be one of my family’s favorite places to picnic. I highly recommend a visit if you are in the area.

I photographed Laurie Burt, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner, on the steps of the State House in Boston for Governing Magazine. The story is about greenhouse gases and what northeast states are doing about them.

I have been meaning to go out and make pictures of a Boston snow storm for at least the last few times we have had the white stuff fall. Yesterday I finally went out and did so. My plan was to go downtown and photograph hoards of people hustling though the falling flakes. I was thinking about shooting kind of loose along with a telephoto lens to compress the falling snow and people. Unfortunately Boston being the heat island it is made that impossible. The five miles from my house to downtown is all it took to turn the snow falling in my neighborhood into rain. So I headed back toward my place and decided to photograph in the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. I did not get to make the photo that I had in my head since there was almost no one there but a dog was kind enough to help me out.

I photographed Dr. Emery Brown professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital for a story in the New York Times at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

I was happy to see my photo of Harvard Law Student Edward Guo run as the secondary art on the cover of the Feb. 22, 2011 edition of the New York Times! The story is about a website that Mr. Guo created called the International Music Score Library Project that makes available to the public over 85,000 scores of music free of charge. It is a similar format to Google Books and is completely crowd sourced by users who voluntarily upload scores.

I meet Mr. Guo at the Loeb Music Library on the Harvard Campus where we started shooting in the stacks. We then took a short walk to Harvard Square and made a few extra images. I used a Westcott shoot through umbrella with a Speedlite as the key light and a on-camera mounted Ray Flash ringlight as fill to light all the images.