Been raining round these parts. Rained today. Rained Yesterday. Gon’ rain tomorrow too.

Today was the 24th annual Big Ol’ Pro Bike Ride in Philly. The men have to ride 156 miles in 14 mile lap increments.

Baseball as I’m sure many of you know is boring. very boring. especially if you’re photographing it. You set up to snap a shot pitch after pitch hoping for something: a hit, a hit batsman, a cleat to someone balls on a slide, but rarely do you bear witness to said events. Instead you get a swing and a miss, or a ball, or the batter calling timeout to rearrange his 1-1 count (ok not such a good analogy for balls but i tried) anyway i shot these at a game today.

These people climbed out onto their roof to watch police swarm and arrest two 13-year-olds who tried to mug two women. stupid kids. THE WHOLE WORLDS WATCHING.

I was fortunate enough to attend my first rally for a presidential candidate and i gotta say it was a good time. Barack seems like a decent guy. his staff let me steal a bottle of water from under the stage while i was taking pictures so thats cool. he’ll win votes by hydrating americans, then the world. good sound policy if you ask me. Vote Obama… maybe.

So we’ve had anti war protests, pro war rallies, parades, and marches and never has there been a turnout like today’s mumia gathering. way to come out for something actually worthwhile philly. way to go.

“YEAH BITCH, I’M gonna take this city to a whole NUTTER level!!!

Only a head like Nutters could produce such a sleek and shiny profile. That’s Mayoral Qulity Baldness.

So this morning i had to go down to Penn’s Landing to photograph a big ass navy ship coming into port. I thought it would be much more interesting but it turns out i was quite wrong. I just sat waiting… waiting… waiting… for what felt like hours for this oversized dingy to approach. All i could hope for what for this ship to accidently fire its very large and most dangerous guns and blow up the ride the ducks boat. man that would surely appease my soul. ( for those of you who don’t know, prior to actually getting a real job as a photographer I served as the ride the ducks souveneir photo guy. just another chapter in my storied past.) well this is one of the only photos i can bear to look at or work on besides a friendly little lady bug i shot that happened to land nearby. enjoy.