Enjoying the Santa Monica Pier here in Southern California with a couple of other photographers, I came across this young man, a painter, who is one of a community of volunteers that paint the slate gray cement to make it much more scenic. He agreed to let me shoot him by this section under the bridge that he had painted.
(Flash - i-TTL-BL; 10.5mm; ISO 160; 1/200 sec; f/3.2)
Senate Democrats hinted at payback for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who called Barack Obama an untested candidate beholden to Democratic interest groups in a prime-time GOP convention address.
AFP - Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said.
Reuters - Condoleezza Rice travels to Libya on
Friday, the first trip there by a U.S. secretary of state in 55
years, signaling improved ties between the two countries.
