Well as you can see I am back from my tour in Iraq.  Being a military photojournalist over there was an interesting experience.  I guess the biggest thing I can say about it is it was HOT!.  During the hot part of the summer it got up to 145+ in the sun for close to a month.  When I left the beginning of October it was still in the 110 area.  I will never complain about Vegas heat again.  It is good to be home and done.  It will be a long while before I have to go again if ever.   

While I was there Joel Wiebner of the Wiebners photography mailed over the traveling shovel to me.  For those of you that may not know the story John Michael Cooper of Alt F did a bridal shoot out in the desert here in Las Vegas and used a shovel.  Well Joel bought that shovel and took it home with him to Pennsylvania on the plane and took pictures the whole way.  Well it developed an idea to send the shovel to all our friends around the world to take pictures with it.  So that is what we have been doing.  You can view the latest images by going to The Traveling Shovel web site.  It is actually a lot of fun to follow him traveling around the world.  He may get to go to a lot of places and be photographed by a lot of photographers, but I am the only one that can say I survived a war zone with him.  Here are a few of my pics.