Outtakes From Visiting Capitol Hill

Joseph Delaney, Mayor of Garfield, NJ, center, and Thomas Duch, Garfield City Manager, right, greet US Senator Cory Booker (NJ), prior to a hearing chaired by Booker, of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works’ Subcommittee on Oversight, Tuesday, June 10, 2014.
I followed Mayor Delaney into the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Bldg during a break, just to keep shooting.  Here, he speaks to reporter, Herb Jackson, about their roots in NJ.

Sometimes you get a phone call like this: "Hi, this is John Doe from That-Newspaper-You've-Worked With-Before, are you available to shoot a hearing in 3 hours?".  In this case it was The (NJ) Record, and the hearing was with the US Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works. 
I always appreciate phone calls like this.  1) because it's work and I always appreciate work and 2)  it's work on The Hill, which I always enjoy.  One of the cool things about working in situations like this is that it is dreadfully boring and it's always a tremendous challenge to get anything usable, but also to get anything mildly interesting.  Add in the fact that I actually get to witness Democracy at work (although it's always hard to actually pay attention to whats being said because I'm trying to find a picture that's not obvious and/or boring).

Here are a few outtakes from the shoot.  The (NJ) Record only needed to use one photo, here.  But obviously I shot more than that, trying different angles, compositions.  It's always good to try things out for the next time and to keep pushing to find something interesting. 




Garfield, NJ mayor, Joseph Delaney, spoke as part of a panel detailing the ongoing efforts and challenges to clean up a hexavalent chromium spill from 1983. 

Sen. Cory Booker (NJ) chaired a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works’ Subcommittee on Oversight on Tuesday, June 10, 2014.

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