I spent about a week in Harlem during March shooting for this story about how the economic troubles are hitting the black community particularly hard.

I enjoyed shooting for this magazine because my work was featured not just for one article, but for the entire issue. Pretty cool.

Traveling for work is a fun perk, especially when we get to go to beautiful places in the world like Colorado Springs.

View at sunset from our hotel balcony.

Somewhere near Pikes Peak. The oxygen is so thin here.

Behind the scenes snap at the Garden Of the Gods.

On the cover, the Brookings Institute’s Bruce Katz.

Currently I am doing pre production work for a shoot next week in Colorado Springs.

Some of the new clients I worked with this year include BPG Properties, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Drexel e-Learning, Deloitte, Boston College, the Pew Charitable Trust, Smyrski Creative, Financial Advisor, and Major League Baseball.

One of my favorite things I was assigned to shoot this year was a long-time dream of mine: Shooting the World Series. Being a huge baseball fan, and a Phillies season ticket holder, the opportunity to shoot my favorite team in the World Series was truly amazing. Below are just a few images from the games in Philly.

The cast of Glee sings the Star Spangled Banner before the start of Game 3 of the World Series in Philadelphia.

Jimmy Rollins

Shane Victorino looking intense during batting practice before game 4

David was extremely generous with his time at their Old City headquarters and did his part to make sure the shoot went really well. His company is also worth following on twitter as they’re normally pretty funny. http://twitter.com/irreference

We love the organization, we love the kids involved and we love and appreciate the staff and interns that help to keep it running. And even though we seem to only go during the hottest, muggiest days of summer we also love New Orleans. Each year we’ve been lucky enough to stay in a different part of the city which has allowed us to learn more and see more of the city during our downtime. A highlight of this year’s trip was seeing a great brass ensemble the night before we left at Les Bons Temp on Magazine Street.

Below check out a few quick shots from our weeklong shoot.

Andrew does an interview in one of the only quiet rooms in the entire school. This year, large air conditioning units (worth their weight in gold by the way) and construction made Andrew's shoot difficult.

Each morning the group gets together for a circle meeting, which is a nice way for everyone to talk about the day and catch up on what's new in each other's lives.

Each year I shoot some glossy style portraits that the organization can use in conjunction with documentary work to help with grant proposals and other fundraising opportunities. An entire gallery of last year's portraits is up on my website, but this image here represents the small group portraits that I did with the Rethinkers this year.

So after a busy week Saturday morning was setting up to be a very relaxing day as Liz and I decided to head out to a flea market on South Street and then meet up with our friend Chris to help him pick out some sneakers. (Liz is a sneaker expert) All of our plans got sidetracked however when Chris and I spotted a vendor selling replica armor. I convinced Chris that this one helmet would be worth $100 just to be seen riding around the city wearing it on his bicycle that afternoon. I’m a good salesman. Chris bought it. Riding around with it WAS worth $100. We quickly decided that we needed to do a quick portrait session with the helmet though so that the helmet could live on through the world of the internet.

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Here’s a panoramic I snapped while on the deck with Bill on Sunday night as they tried to get the grill fired up. You have to click on it for the full effect.

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Here’s one of my May tear sheets that I’m most proud of, from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. I enjoyed this shoot more than most for a few reasons. A large part was because of the subject matter and another part was the challenge of getting everything right.

The story was a cover feature for Kiplinger (I didn’t shoot the cover) that focused on 5 different stories of people facing tough times in the midst of this recession. The story wasn’t all doom and gloom, it showed what the people were doing to help their situation and the two subjects that I met, Cliff and Laurie were happy, positive people. (I love meeting new people, its my favorite part of this job)

The challenging part of this shoot was that not only were my two subjects supposed to be shot in two separate locations (one a studio here in Philadelphia, another the subjects living room in Delaware) but they needed to be shot in exactly the same manner AND they needed to match the other 3 photographers shots exactly.

On the phone in the subject's living room with Wendy Tiefenbacher at Kiplinger's as we review our lighting setup to check for consistency.

Photo editor Wendy Tiefenbacher did an amazing job orchestrating all of us photographers and checking our digital files remotely as we set up each shot. All of this was done on deadline to boot.