A Taste of Snow - 02/26/10 - photo by Will Yurman

With my car stuck in my driveway this morning, buried under a foot of snow, I walked around my neighborhood looking for weather photos. Among the people I ran into were Gus Galambos, 2, and his dad, who were shoveling the driveway together, with Gus pausing to eat some snow.

Backstage at Peter Pan - 02/21/2010 - photo by Will Yurman

I’ve been working on a story on the Beckwith/Cohen family in the upcoming production of Peter Pan by Rochester Children’s Theatre.  Jodi Beckwith is playing Peter, her husband Stefan Cohen is Captain Hook and their two kids, Ethan and Tali, are a pirate and Lost Boy respectively. Sunday night all four were at rehearsal and Tali was backstage with the other Lost Boys watching Captain Hook and the pirates plot on stage.

Cuddle Time - 2/20/10 - photo by Tina Yee

I’m always looking looking looking when I’m shooting to see if there is something different to get as well.  I saw these two and they were so sweet.  I loved the way the daughter lovingly touched her mother.  The event was Governor David Paterson’s trip to Rochester to announce his candidacy.

Reading to an English Mastiff - 02/18/2010 - Photo by Annette Lein

I have never seen an English Mastiff before and was thrilled to meet “Largo”, a very large dog, listening to Jerry Reynolds, age 11, of Rochester, right, reading to him and Friends of the Rochester Public Library member Steve Newcomb, center, at the Arnett Public Library in the city. The Friends of the Rochester Public Library arranged for Therapy Dogs in the  “Tail Waggin’ Tutors” program, to come and have kids read to them at the library on Thursday afternoon.  Largo was extremely sweet and patient with the young readers.

Long Pond hockey - 02/17/2010 - Photo by Annette Lein

While driving back from on assignment on Edgemere Drive in Greece, I spotted three young hockey players skating on their makeshift rink on Long Pond taking advantage of their February break from school. The snow was blowing and so they made a nice silhouette against the ice.

Chicken plunge - 02/14/10 - Photo by Annette Lein

This man was no chicken when he immersed himself in the icy waters of Lake Ontario for the 10th Annual Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics at Ontario Beach.  There are good photos to be made everywhere when hundreds of people run headlong into a freezing cold lake in  winter.  I was really hoping to get one of the plungers who get their whole body into the water and I scored when chicken man took a dive.  Thanks chicken man!!!!

Computer portrait - 02/12/2010 - photo by Matt Wittmeyer

Delmonize Smith, founder of a local IT and Human Resource Management company, poses for an upcoming business life portrait. This is 2 images photoshopped together to create the look of seeing through the computer.