Cylo taken during Schwanger Bros annual Customer Appreciation Day.

View all the shots from this great annual event here.

June First Friday.

View all the June First Friday images here.

Fireworks over the houses on New Street after a Barnstormer’s game for a special project.

You can see the entire set here.

The fountain in Penn Square, just because.

The Convention Center at night.

The Convention Center during the big storm June 12th.

A shot from the Lancaster County Community Foundation annual meeting. I want to welcome the LCCF as my newest client.

You can see all the shots here.

One of a series of shots from the Amtrak station for an upcoming print project.

You can see all the Amtrak shots here.

Finally, I just finished these shots this weekend. Every year I shoot the homes in the Lancaster Parade of Homes that WeeBee Audio/Video has worked on. Here are two shots from the Parade.

You can both sets of the Parade images here and here.

So, starting from right after the Sertoma BBQ, here is quick wrap up of the last two weeks.

If you click on the link in the intro to each image, you can view the entire gallery from which that image came.

One shot from the 27th Annual Fiesta (a fantastic party by the way).

Ricky Calderon, owner of Club Rumbha was kind enough to invites me in to shoot some images for a project for the City. Club Rumbha is a great little club and if you want to do some Salsa, it’s the place. From what I understand, Ricky even offers to teach beginners some steps.

I just started a new project for JSID focused on one Northeastern Lancaster neighborhood. There’ll be a lot more in this set soon.

Velaska Jewelry is a new client and I’m working on a bunch of different things for owner, Kathryn Pearce. These are just some initial tests. We’re working on defining a style and then I’ll be shooting a good representation of her many designs.

I managed to wake up early enough to catch some shots at this year’s Red Rose Run.

Last Saturday’s 300 North Queen Street Block Party was fun. Here’s one of my favorite shots.

One of my favorite things about Lancaster is the Lancaster Police Mounted Patrol. I’ve been lucky to befriend two of the officers and they’re always good for a great shot when they are out on duty. I stopped by the paddock a few days ago to see what’s new and check on one of the horses, Zeke (below) who has literally come back from death’s door and is now back on duty with Officer Wayne McVey. We’re all really glad Zeke and Officer McVey are back to work.

Most recently, as part of that new JSID project I mentioned above I got to shoot inside Grace Lutheran Church. It’s a beautiful church. Here are just a few of the great images I managed grab in a mere half hour inside.

First Friday, a shot from Gallery 141…

The second wedding I’ve shot in two decades (I don’t shoot weddings, this was an exception for a very good friend)…

Team WeeBee racing at Lanco…

Equal rights rally…

Kids visiting the Lancaster Museum of Art’s Maurice Sendak exhibit…

A shot from a lunch promoting the Convention Center where a video that I made from my images of Lancaster was shown…

Artistry In Motion vintage car show…

YWCA’s Race Against Racism…

McCaskey High School Senior art show at Building Character (which, by the way, was a wonderful show)…

Vintage Datsun 1600 being worked on at WeeBee Audio/Video…

Shooting a TV commercial at WeeBee Audio/Video (Watch Blue Ridge cable, channel 11, Sunday’s at 3:00 p.m. to see the commercial)…

That’s a busy week.

Two things stand out here.

One, I love my work. Look at what I get to do.

Second, Lancaster is an amazing place. The variety of things to do in any given week is simply astounding. The beautiful surroundings, the friendly people. I love my city.

Today I’m working on a jewelry catalog and web site, a catalog for a racing products manufacturer and work for the rest of the my regular clients.

And, as Linda Ellerbee used to say, so it goes…

I can’t wait until the BBQ next month. By the way, I am setting up something special for the BBQ. It’s basically about 36 hours long from start to finish and I’ll be there shooting it from start to finish and, and here’s the fun part, I’m working on a way to post hourly updates to the site. So you’ll be able to see the entire event almost live.

The Sertoma BBQ is unique in so many ways but it’s also one of the most visually interesting event in Lancaster.

You can look at the images from last year’s BBQ here.

The complete gallery from the Dinner is here and below, a few shots from their after-dinner production, “Chickens of the Caribbean”.

Josh and Mark were great subjects and we had absolutely perfect weather. Made for a nice shot.

Enjoy.

On the 15th I shot the LCPJ peace rally. Here’s one of the shots I like a lot.

Later that evening there was a candlelight vigil at the courthouse. Here’s one shot from that set.

On the 18th I shot at a ceremony at Musser Park introducing the new lighting system they’ve installed. It’s really a beautiful in-ground system of lighting that illuminates the tree branches in the most surreal way. I’m curious to see what happens this summer once the trees get leaves. It will totally change the look.

On the 19th my good friend from the City got press access for me at the Hillary Clinton rally at Millersville University. It was the first time I’ve shot something political at that level. It was interesting. The similarities between shooting something like that and shooting a major musical artist were almost non-existent.

On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war there was another candlelight vigil at the courthouse. Here is one of the shots from that.

The nice folks from Building Character hosted the monthly Creative House of Lancaster meeting. I stopped in an shot a few frames. It’s a wonderful space and filled with interesting things to photograph.

This past Wednesday I shot some images at a roll out meeting for a program I’m the designer for. Here’s one shot from that.

Yesterday afternoon the Sertoma Club of Lancaster held the media lunch for this year’s “World’s Largest Chicken Barbecue”. Here’s a totally unrelated shot from that lunch but a shot I really love.

By the way, I’ll be chronicling the entire event this year spending about thirty hours shooting and posting from it. It’s ana amazing, almost difficult to describe event from a visual perspective. If you haven’t seen the shots from last year’s barbecue, check them out. I’m very proud of them.

And then last night there was an excellent public forum on immigration policy hosted by the ACLU and the LCPJ. No matter what anyone says, the ugliest lighting in the city is in the City Council Chambers at Southern Market. Great forum though.

And then this coming weekend I’ll be shooting the annual convention of one of the most influential political websites in Philadelphia. I’ll be posting those shots as regularly as wireless access and time allows. It starts Friday evening and runs through Sunday. I’ll be there Friday night and following the entire schedule all and evening Saturday.

See all the images here.