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I love that I get to do a wide variety of photography. Last Friday, for instance, my work was split between photographing sculpture and photographing the food and kitchen of an Indian restaurant - a variety that required working with action in available light + carefully composed, lit photos.

But I'm also very grateful that I get to do a fair amount of hard news. Hard news is where I come from and I wouldn't want to leave it behind.

Besides, sometimes there are days like today, when the news photos really do well. This morning I found I had the page 1 photos in at least three major papers, with more photos scattered in others.("There's that bald guy again!" said one of my sons when I showed him three front pages.)