The other day while biking down Tolman Creek Road, I took a few snaps of Oscar the pit bull making friends with a few cows. Despite all the bad press they get, I have never yet met a mean pit bull and Oscar is no exception, sweet and friendly - both to me and the cows. And these cow teenagers couldn't get enough of their new friend Oscar.

last week of August I helped a dear friend, newly single and going through a divorce, to babysit for her two daughters. Years ago I had helped raise children back in my NYC days, so I thought it would be fun. And it was, but also exhausting -- no way could I keep up the pace of these two amazing little girls, one five and the other seven years old.

Great fun with this photoshoot with Neisha, who dressed the part of an outlaw lady. I photographed these shots at the location of the last great train robbery in the US -- just a few miles south of where I live in Ashland, Oregon. This photo was lit by a strobe in a 27" Westcott soft-box held by Neisha's boyfriend (the soft-box was fixed to a pain...