Scenes from the Rally for Marriage Equality at the Supreme Court

Today is a big day in our nation's history. I am optimistic and hopeful that the Supreme Court will come down on the right side of history by overturning Prop 8 and DOMA when they make their ruling in a few months. Today they heard testimony on California's Prop 8. I can't tell you how disappointed I was in my old home for showing such homophobia and discrimination, but now the Supreme Court has taken up the issue and has the opportunity to make it right for all those who suffer because they love someone of the same sex. I was at the rally this morning in front of the Supreme Court, joining my voice in support of love and marriage and against bigotry and hatred. D.C. isn't always a perfect place to live, but it is an honor and a privilege to be able to witness history unfold so close to me. rally for marriage equality at the supreme court This guy will be in everyone's newspaper tomorrow.    This is an issue I feel passionately about. I can't believe that it's 2013 and we're still debating civil rights. If you want to get involved, consider joining forces with the Human Rights Campaign.

Lauren & Jack: Engaged! | Cava restaurant | Washington, DC

Lauren and Jack and a lovely little engagement party at Cava restaurant in Eastern Market, Washington, DC and asked me to come along and capture some candids of their guests mingling.  Their wedding on Cape Cod sounds wonderful.  I wish you guys the best! engagement photographer Amber Wilkie pink heels at engagement party bridesmaids laughing guest at engagement party kid at engagement party An outtake from a quick "all my girls" photo. outtake from bridal party portraits mom and kid at engagement party friend of mother of bride at engagement party I've been to Cava for dinner.  They have really tasty foods.  And I can't resist tasty foods. spanakopita at cava restaurant olive oil olives pita bread at cava restaurant Congratulations you two!

Maryland Day!

As George is soon to enter graduate school at the University of Maryland, we thought it wise enough to head on up for their annual Maryland Day.  Honestly, when we sat down to look over the booklet for the thing, we realized there were tons of tents and exhibits we wanted to visit and didn't know how we would cram it all in!  It wasn't as difficult to see everything as we thought, though, and we had a good old time checking out the University's offerings.  Like ice cream made with liquid nitrogen. liquid nitrogen ice cream at maryland day! ice cream made with liquid nitrogen Truth is, I appreciate any demonstration that includes free ice cream.  And on the other side of the temperature scale, a fire tornado!!!  Seriously, I beg you to answer this question: what is cooler than a fire tornado? If you answer anything other than Chuck Norris, you are wrong. fire tornado at the university of maryland smoke cannon exhibit at the university of maryland philosophical advice at maryland day two girls with balloons on maryland day instructor and kid doing wheel pottery The thing on the left is for cooling stuff down to a tiny fraction of 1 degree Kelvin (which is very, very cold).  The thing on the right is a superconductor on magnet "rails."  It floated back and forth on the track - super cool! science equipment and demonstrations at umd I know this is weird, but I can't get enough of these white boards you see around physics and math departments.  They are filled with such lovely graphs and charts and numbers and equations.  I'm always photographing them and showing them here like anyone else in the world is fascinated with this stuff from a purely aesthetic place.  (That is, plenty of people are interested for the actual maths and things.) physics work on a whiteboard some giant "danger of implosion" lab equipment thing fire!!!And it screws up my formatting of the post, but I can't leave off this completely freakin' awesome fire tornado shot.  Because what my blog needs is more FIRE!!  This was by far the best thing we did all day.  Thanks UMD!