#onassignment

Location scouting for Polish Gotham, 2018

End times or a Gregory Crewdson set? Foggy AM assignment in the #RGV #onassignment #photojournalism #fog @sonyalpha @crewdsonstudio @exploremcallen (at McAllen, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8ko6DFkGT/?utm_medium=tumblr

In her words, “we may all be in the same boat, but we are in different storms” Vanessa Nakate campaigns internationally to highlight the impact of climate change already playing out in Africa, especially the inequities it amplifies and how it disproportionately affects women and girls. It is important to note that the entire African continent is responsible for less than 4% of global emissions yet it’s one of the most vulnerable to climate change. Congratulations @vanessanakate1 upon receiving the 2022 Goal Keeper campaign award. #onassignment #goalkeepers2030 #climatechange #sdg (at Kampala, Uganda) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciw_i--L8Ln/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This always happens; I post a pic of Jane Goodall and then I post another very soon after cuz I love the images from this shoot and she's Jane frickin' Goodall. . #janegoodall #barbie #bucketlist #portraiture #portraitoftheday #portraitphotography #portraitphotographer #portraitperfection #makeportraits #makeportraitsnotwar #editorial #editorialphotography #editorialphotographer #editorialshoot #onassignment #myfujifilm #fuji #fujifilm #fujifeed #fujifilm_us #portraitmood #portraitvision #portrait_mood #portrait_vision #fujilove #fuji_xseries #portrait_society #onlocation #portraitsociety #elinchrom https://www.instagram.com/p/Cger7DAgybO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A tense eight-hour standoff with a fugitive threatening to jump from a 31st-floor Midtown apartment window after an FBI raid gone wrong ended dramatically Wednesday with a daredevil arrest. An NYPD Emergency Service Unit officer scaled his way down from the floor above to slip into the residence through a shattered glass window and conclude the bizarre faceoff with suspect Ian Mitchell as a crowd watched the high-rise drama from the street below. Shot while on assignment assignment for @nydailynews @nypdpc @nypd @nypdspecialops #fbi #newyork #newyorkdailynews #nydailynews #onassignment #fbiraid #nypdesu #nypdfinest @greatestdetectives #manhattan #canon (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIIqlEuIsy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This is the last of my native flora photos from last year’s  Hawaii assignment. Fittingly this is from the final shoot and perhaps strangely my favorite of all. This is Nototrichium sandwicense, an endemic species in the Amaranth family known in the indigenous language as Kului. The flowers’ white-light color is rather tame, but they remain attractive for the fluffy character and produce a pleasing cyan to green tone when exposed to my ultraviolet light. The leaves may be my absolute favorite thing about this plant though. Especially when grown in bright and dry conditions, the leaves become heavily pubescent, tiny hairs creating a translucent silvery sheen overlaying the green leaf surface. They prefer to grown in dry conditions and are naturally present on many of the islands, growing in various well-drained soils at low to moderate altitudes. If I could choose just one of the plants I photographed to grow at home in California, it would be this species! For some bonus fun, check out the ant in the final picture. She and her associates were wandering all over the flowers, creating quite a lot of frustration for me. In the end  there was one frame where one ant was both somewhat in focus and stationary enough to get a good look at how the body fluoresces under 365nm UV. This is my last native Hawaiian flower to share. I’ll be taking a short break from posting UVIVF images, but I’ll return with some invasive species I photographed the first night there and probably some infrared images down the line as well! Thanks to Hana Hou! magazine (in particular Matt Mallams!) for bringing me in on this assignment and both the Lyon Arboretum and Hui Ku Maoli Ola for all the help in providing subjects and sparing the time to talk about things. I hope I’ll have another opportunity in the future to come visit!

Water shortages in Ensenada, Mexico have left some residents without service for months, sparking protests and demands for change. The city, last in line for Colorado River water, is bearing the brunt of the drought ravaging the Western United States. — Ensenada has more water sources to choose from than rapidly-expanding Tijuana, also suffering from rounds of water shortages. But poor maintenance, a growing population and lackluster management of those resources means the town is devolving into prolonged water shutoffs resulting in protests and demands for change. Mexico’s federal government has taken the rare step of declaring a drought emergency for a number of Mexican states, responding to extreme water shortages primarily in the industrial state of Nuevo Leon, but also in Baja California. That move grants temporary powers to the feds to take over water supplies that would normally go to agriculture and reroute it to quench thirsty urban areas. Like in the United States, about 80 percent of the Colorado River water Mexico is entitled to goes to farmers. — To read more of the story written by McKenzie and Vicente (a cross border collaboration on the water crisis facing the regions of California-Baja California) go to @voiceofsandiego: https://bit.ly/3QfE9T2 — #climatechange #coloradoriver #onassignment #ensenadamexico #mexico #mexicowatercrisis #ensenada #photojournalism #fotoperiodismo #everydayeverywhere #everydaylatinamerica #everydayusa #everydaymexico #documentaryphotography #watershortage #crisisclimática #reportagespotlight #environmentalportrait #portraitphotography #portrait #retrato #everydayclimatechange #everydaysocialjustice (at Ensenada, Baja California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChDNMwkPyd2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=