The Challenge - A year in pictures

The first professional photographer to believe in me as a photographer (25 YEARS AGO!) has challenged and inspired me to take a photo everyday for a year. I didn't even do that while I was working 27 years as a photojournalist for a daily newspaper!

When I was a cocky full of myself college student, I spent all my free time following E. W. Faircloth and Norman Lono around while they were working at the Philadelphia Daily News.

Cloth never told me that I was a pest and taught me some of the most important lessons a young photojournalist needs to know to get by on the streets. He took me along on whatever photo assignments he had and bullied his boss to hire me for a summer job and when that ended for a temp job to replace someone off having a baby.

Thank you Cloth for believing in me then and giving me a push now. Cloth left the newspaper business around the same time that I did for a lot of the same reasons.

Here is Cloth's blog. http://faircloth.org/blog1/

Joining me in the challenge are:

Holly is: http://themares.blogspot.com

Sarah is: http://birdswingonthewindow.blogspot.com/

Paige is: http://strawnequine.blogspot.com/


Here are some of the photos I took on Jan 1.







It is a cold bright day in Burnsville.





Blue smiles at the camera.