Darden Business Grad Ari Perlman for BusinessWeek

Ari was another one of those patient and willing subjects that make my job easy (at least easy in the photographer-subject relationship department). His story was one I'm guessing I may be shooting often in these times, of a college student whose job prospects are looking dim after graduating from business school. To make matters worse, he was a summer intern at Lehman Brothers and their last check to him bounced. With that said, Ari came across as a sharp, optimistic guy who I'm sure will land on his feet. Shortly after this shoot, I got on a plane to Seattle for another shoot with Underground Ads, an advertising company based in San Francisco who I had shot for earlier this year.

After an emotional shoot at Seattle Children's Hospital, I needed to decompress a bit and decided to walk around the city and do some street shooting. It was non-stop rain for the six hours I wandered the streets as it got dark. The rain made for great scenes and some very wet shoes.

Due to popular demand, I am now offering a limited edition signed and numbered print of President-elect Barack Obama. The image was taken in 2006, in the US Capitol during a Democratic press conference on lobby reform. I've taken thousands of photographs of the President-elect since then and this image remains one of my favorites.

The print sale will be limited to 50 prints (25 each in 8x10 and 11x14) and will not be offered for sale after the initial edition is sold out. The prints are $40 and $75 respectively.

To order, click on the Buy link, then Add to Cart. You'll be able to choose the image size and payments from there.

The library in Rockville, Maryland is modeled after the human genome. When you walk in, you're met with a massive strand of DNA etched into a black marble floor. At the end of each bookcase is more double-helix'd goodness carved into the wood. The head librarian is super nice and accommodating to a photographer who wants to set up three lights, run extension cords across a busy thruway mostly inhabited by small children running around and take up a large chunk of space for almost two hours.

Which is a roundabout way of saying I photographed geneticist Greg Lennon there last month for BusinessWeek and couldn't have felt more fortunate to find a location that actually had some visual relevance to my subject.

A couple more from the shoot:

A quick thanks to Kyle Almond at CNN for the great work turning a long telephone interview into a succinct three minute piece on my China Water Pollution photos. The slideshow can be viewed here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/27/what.matters.huai/index.html

I spent my election night in Studio 4A at NPR headquarters in Washington, DC documenting their election coverage. I've had the pleasure of photographing three elections for them now and it's always an exciting, interesting place to be, even more so on a historic night like last Tuesday.

Below are a few selects from the night showing NPR hosts Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Scott Simon and Linda Wertheimer.