I had the great opportunity to meet and photograph Hilda Raz for the Lincoln Journal Star last week. Hilda and her husband Dale just moved to Placitas, and Nebraska’s loss is New Mexico’s gain. You should read the article. You can also see more of the photos from my first visit with Hilda and Dale on my online archive.
I had a chance last week to make a few photographs of former Merrill Lynch executive James A. Brown, who was a key individual in the Enron financial scandal and now lives in Santa Fe with his wife Nancy. He has always maintained his innocence, and the Justice Department recently dropped fraud and conspiracy charges against him just days before the scheduled retrial. Still fighting perjury and obstruction convictions, Mr. Brown gave The Wall Street Journal his first interview.
You can read the article by clicking here, but you need to have a subscription to gain access.
This being Memorial Day, I thought I’d share the PDF version from this day in 2007. This was without question, the biggest and best play I ever got for a photo I’d taken at the Trib, and that is saying something, because gave lots of space to good photography. Six columns above fully about the fold just doesn’t happen in newspapers, and to my knowledge, it only happened once during my years at the Trib, which is what made it such a powerful tribute to our local fallen heroes.
Worth reading