Working for Examiner.com

I had published a few pictures a little while back on Examiner.com and will actually be doing a lot more on this going forward. Today I published my first article, "Not every CEO comes to Washington for a bailout" for this online publication. You will be able to see aditional articles and photos of mine on this site in the future by visiting my Examiner.com homepage: http://www.examiner.com/x-1942-DC-City-Buzz-Examiner.

Veteran's Day 2008

I was out shooting this Veteran's day and wanted to share some of my favorite images from all over the National Mall. Here is a gallery of my favorites.

A few of these were published in this Examiner.com article: Veterans memorialized in Washington, D.C.

Election 2008

I got a chance to take some photos of the election polling in Virginia and the victory celebration yesterday. Two of the photos ran online in Examiner.com. I included links to the two relevent articles below.

Early morning voting a challenge in battleground states
Opinion round up of historic Obama win

You can see more of the pictures I took on election day in this online gallery.

Updated Site

I have finally completed the updates to my site and uploaded them today. I will be a adding a lot more images under the more tab going forward. I have been much busier shooting, and traveling of late that I have been at updating my website.

My Photos in the New York Daily News

Three of my pictures of fitness model, Carri Lyn Ciamarra, ran in today's print and online editions of the New York Daily News. The pictures also ran on the televison broadcasts of Extra!, Inside Edition, and Fox News' On The Record with Greta Van Susteren. For those of you unfamilar with the story Carri had a relationship with Peter Cook, husband of Christie Brinkley.

You can see these images and read the story, Cook's Foxy Fitness Fling (I don't write the titles) online or on page 12 if you have the newspaper.

UPDATE: These were only licensed to run for 24 hours online and consequently are no longer on the New York Daily News site so I included them below:

Dog Takes Bath and Makes Headlines

I got a little press coverage recently though the article was not about me, but rather Riggs, my canine companion. He made news when I took him to the new dog spa in town here. You can read the June 3rd story from the Vienna Oakton Connection online. I should note that Riggs is a boy dog though referred to using the pronoun "her" in this article. As the article mentions, I did take pictures of this monumental event but not simply to imortalize Riggs. This was actually at the request of the shop owners who were looking for poster-sized images they could print and put in the front windows of the store.

Memorial Day Weekend in DC

I got out to a number of events this past weekend and thought I'd share some of the images with you all. You can check them out in this online album. There are 24 different images and I posted color and black and white versions of each.

So you know the context, the first and last pictures (1 & 24) are of my roomate Gretal who spent most of the weekend napping. Shots 2-5 of the memorials and 6-8 of a local band are from Saturday night. On Sunday, I took some pictures, actually a lot, at the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Parade for awarness of POW/MIA issues (9-15) and then made it to the Viva Vienna Town Fair in time to catch a couple motion blurs of the ferris wheel and rides (16-17). Sunday I went to Arlington National Cemetery and took some of my favorite images from the weekend (18-23). I took a few pictures of George W. there, which I found to be pretty overrated. The people in the crowd were much more interesting.

New York City Panorama

I was out in West New York, NJ (yes, West New York is in New Jersey) a while back and discovered a great view of the city. It also had available on street parking and lower rents than Manhattan. I took a bunch of shots a little after sunset and stitched the separate images together in Photoshop. Here is the resulting image sized to fit your monitor. The full resolution composite file is 38 megapixals and at full size would print to 9 inches high by 6 feet long.

New Website and Blog

Welcome! If you are reading this, then you already know I have now launched a blog and a new website for my photography. I will be putting updates on what I am working on and new images on this blog as warrented so check back from time-to-time if you want to keep up with what I am doing. I'd also be happy to hear from any of you with comments or questions, other thoughts and ideas, and of course lucrative assignments. You can reach me via email at peterbforman@gmail.com.

Finally, thank all of the people who have offered their support, encouragement, and advice toward my work over the past months and years.