I was delighted to attend and photograph Andrew’s bar mitzvah yesterday. He is a delightful, studious and fun-loving kid. Yesterday was a wonderful testimony to the power of tradition, faith and community. Mazel tov to Andrew and his family!
Monthly Archives: October 2008
This week your peripatetic (definition: walking about; itinerant; nomadic) blogging shutterbug is back in the place of his birth: Chicago, Illinois. I am here to photograph the goings-on at a huge water convention called WEFTEC. Water is, of course, a hugely important part of our world, and has, in recent years, become a real political hot potato. So it’s interesting learning more about the technological processes required to process the waste water that we produce in increasingly frightening quantities.
Here are a few photographic highlights…
Sometimes working out of town is a complete drag. The hassles of modern air travel, missing my family, the long hours, and the uncertain surroundings. But then sometimes I just hit a home run. I’m shooting a corporate event in Orange County, CA, and my client generously put me in one of the same rooms they’re giving their clients. And let me tell you, this does not suck.
This is the view from my private patio. 
My dog, Walter, on my back porch. Poor thing…he’s a little nervous when I point the camera at him.
Linor celebrated her bat mitzvah in rather uncommon style today. Not only did her family have the ceremony at a country club (maybe to avoid the restrictions in a synagogue), but Linor herself led the entire service. Not just select parts, but the whole thing. It was really a “tour de force”. And instead of the modern tradition of doing a candle-lighting ceremony, Linor’s family and friends each set free a beautiful white dove, symbolizing the hope for peace. Mazal tov to Linor and her family…it was a thrilling day!
