Abercrombie & Fitch is building Warehouse #2 adjacent to the newer four-lane hioghway built northeast of teh city. It was once a rural two-lane road with exits to farm land and rutted roads. Now it is home to a multitude of businesses owned by Les Wexner of The Limted. Wexner, mainly using employees and oddly named corporate entities, purchased several years much of the land along the roadways surround New Albany, Ohio. He formed the New Albany Company, built white fences around every boundary of the new entity and changed forever the face and shape of the land he now owns. [ More Photos ]

An annual event for me is the preparations at my local pool for opening on Memorial Day weekend. The pool is rarely painted so I’ve never gotten the all-too-often seen image of a painter placing black lane stripes at the bottom of an empty pool. Typically, its something much more mundane, such as this image. [ More Photos ]

May is First Communion month for Catholics, when children come of age to understand the significance of the scacrament. They are brought into the church with participation in the sharing of eucharist. This is a significant event for families with mothers dressing their daughters in pure white outfits and fathers attempting to teach their sons how to put a proper knot in their ties.

Most churches perform the rite at a single mass where all the eligible children celebrate together. Small churches, such as the one I photographed, don’t have enough room for all the extended families to gather in the sanctuary for one mass. A small number of children attend each mass for the weekend where they are watched by tearful parents and smiling celebrants as the wine and host are consecrated and served to them.

It’s also easier for photographers to document the event when there are fewer children at small churches. The priest is usually more open to photography during the celebration and there are fewer people to irritate when moving during the more quiet, reverent moments of the mass.

I was also able to add a few stock images to the collection after completion of the mass.

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A day of spring garden sales. I’m always reminded of a story about my grandmother when I am near the Cross Creek Gardens store in Franklin County. I’ve rarely shopped there as their prices are just a little too high. Their clientele are upscale and can afford to pay double digit dollars for a tray of petunias.

Thats doesn’t detract from my grandmother’s tale of delivering the message to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings that she’d won  the Pulitzer for “The Yearling.” The story was often told at family gatherings more so to discuss how my grandmother and her two children hitched a ride in a Model T with a family friend to travel to Cross Creek to tell Ms. Rawlings of her good fortune. [ More Photos ]

This image comes at the end of a series of frames shot while attempting a photo shoot in a county park with too few people, too much wind and cold and my lack of enthusiasm. Spent a considerable amount of time on the phone with photographers trying to get a stock photo for a client from a football game two seasons ago. My shoot went terribly in the wrong direction. The weather and lack of people didn’t help. And, the stock photo probably won’t meet the client’s needs. At least I have this commercial image to add to the gallery. [ More Photos ]

Began and ended the day with editorial assignments, neither of which are shown here. Instead are the stock images I shot while traveling from one assignment to another. I’m not yet sure of the type of hawk I saw sitting atop one of the gravestones on a country cemetery but it certainly had no fear of humans as I was able to get fairly close before it flew to a nearby branch where it continued to survey for food. [ More Photos ]

Busy day with non-photo items and a single set of moments of band concerts and birthday parties. Always with a camera, even when the possibilities are limited. [ More Photos ]

Along the bottom land of a creek leading into the Alum Creek watershed is a wholesale nursery serving most of the retail garden centers in the surrounding counties. The company also services landscape companies and architects with a wide variety of bushes, shrubs and trees. Every spring the color atop the dark earth vibrates as new plantings arrive for display and distribution. This image comes from a brief shoot for stock from a small section of the multiple acres of plants. [ More Photos ]