Suns Dancer Tryouts

The Phoenix Suns dancer tryouts were held at the US Airways Center in August and was choreographed by Ashley Roberts of the Pussycat Dolls.

One of the toughest assignments I've had to shoot yet...

Kaity's Law

Bobbi Sudberry is the step mother of Kaity Sudberry, after whom the law was named.

Kaity's death at the hands of an ex-boyfriend spurred the recent creation of "Kaity's Law," a bill designed to extend protection to domestic violence victims, including unmarried couples who had previously been unprotected by Arizona laws.

Ms. Sudberry asked me to somehow get the painting on the wall in the photo because it is one of her favorites of Kaity's watercolors.

First Friday

First Fridays in downtown Phoenix are always a good go-to event for the College Times... Art, music, dancing? You can't go wrong.

Urban Chicken Farming

Myron Mykyta is a local expert on raising chickens in the city. He was kind enough to invite me to his home in Mesa....

For some reason August was all about chickens and dogs... For this same story I took a picture of another young man in Tempe who owns two chickens in his back yard... My previous two posts cover the dogs...

Find My Dog A Date

Michael D'Elena created the website www.FindMyDogADate.com as a way for dog owners to find playmates for their pets.

I got a standard dog and owner portrait to start out, but wanted more of a natural reaction from Michael and asked him to let his dog Mika lick his face... He was very cooperative and we ended up using the second photo...

Arizona Animal Welfare League

The Arizona Animal Welfare League has a kennel in Phoenix where people can adopt pets. The picture that ran in the College Times was of one of the volunteers spending time with a dog that had had surgery to repair its injured hind legs, but I really liked this photo...

Who doesn't love puppies?

ASU Algae Research

I get to see some really interesting and fascinating things through my job at times... I found this assignment to be one of those times.

At ASU's Polytechnic campus students and scientists are finding that they can create a completely renewable diesel fuel source from algae... Aside from biodiesel, this program is also concentrating on creating jet fuel from the algae.

This scientist is holding up a small sample of refined diesel fuel derived from algae.

While this guy extracts algae samples for testing.