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.

Mindy Dupont College Times Cover

The decision was made over the summer that instead of using models for the covers of the College Times we would start putting our featured subjects on the cover.

We profiled a young woman named Mindy Duponte whose older sister and bandmate had died inhaling Dust Off. Mindy prevailed and continued her music despite the tragic loss of her sister.

Gospel Claws on the Lightrail

The website www.thetraintracks.com in partnership with Valley Metro has been bringing bands onto the lightrail trains to perform live acoustic music for passengers while they film the performances for the website. The dates and times aren't consistent so it's sort of the luck of the draw for passengers as to which specific train will host and at what time...

I tagged along with Gospel Claws for this particular performance. Pretty good stuff.

Devastation

Devastation was a video game competition in July at the Phoenix Convention Center downtown. It was kind of challenging to get good people shots when all anybody was doing was sitting around staring at TV screens.



I liked that the guy in the back isn't plugged in, but was playing along anyways... I remember him saying out loud to himself that he totally nailed every note. He's my new hero.

4th of July College Times Cover

Years ago when my now wife Stephanie and I were first dating we came across a large American flag mural on the side of a building in a commercial district in Mesa where I took some film photos of her just for kicks...

After my art director and I began kicking around ideas a few months ago for the 4th of July cover this year he asked me if I knew any place where there was a giant picture of an American flag and I immediately remembered the mural. I set up this photo shoot on the 20th of June and was very pleased with the end result.

I'll have to dig up the original photos for you that I took of Stephanie at this location... Remind me some time.