Chippendales World Tour Auditions

I don't think this blog post needs any text accompaniment. The pictures are worth at least few thousand words.

Live Cosmetic Surgery

Roughly one quarter of the portrait subjects I photograph often joke with me,"So you can Photoshop my lines away, right??" They are usually only half joking, and for good reason. The camera can sometimes be a cruel mirror. Watching live cosmetic surgery is kind of like watching live Photoshopping. Patty, Karen and Elaine were volunteer patients for a live demonstration of dermal filler and neurotoxin use at the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery's annual scientific meeting in Las Vegas in mid-January. They allowed me to photograph the morning session, and although it was slightly grotesque, watching someone's lines get magically Photoshopped away was also very soothing and reassuring, like a real life clone tool.

Shoes of Porn III

It has now become a tradition for me to photograph shoes at the Adult Entertainment Expo. It's not easy covering a porn convention for a family newspaper without showing too much skin, so this was our clever idea a few years back to show things without showing too much. Please enjoy the third annual Shoes of Porn!

Obama Loves Vegas

President Obama chose Las Vegas for the first trip of his second term, and this time it was my turn to be part of the local pool. This basically meant that me and a reporter were carted around with the national press and rode in their fancy vans in the motorcade to and from the airport. Sadly, Obama did not make any special stops on this trip, just the speech on immigration reform at Del Sol High School. He was on the ground in Vegas for less than two hours. It was still fun though. The best part was having a different view when Obama stepped off Air Force One for the presidential wave. I've always been positioned on a riser directly across from the plane. This time I was on the ground, closer to the plane, and there was a nice cloud overhead that had been blocking the sun intermittently all morning. So I decided to go for a wide shot. It's my favorite one of the day.

World Series of Beer Pong

Yes, the World Series of Beer Pong exists. And of course they hold it in Vegas every year.
Here are my favorite shots from this year's competition.