Some of what I captured during my very first trip to New Orleans.
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this is awesome. where is it?
This is in my home state of Maryland.
lol! lululemonluvit.
Hey Dana I found your site on the “Tell Us About Yourself” post on DPS. I just wanted to leave a comment and let you know that you have some pretty awesome pictures here I love this sign I think it’s hilarious. 
Hope you have a wonderful Friday! I’ll try and check back on occasion to see what else you come up with!
One of the best things that happened to me as a child was being sent to Gilman School. Outside of my parents, Gilman laid the foundation for my life to this point, and the further I get from my time there, the closer I feel to the place. Maybe I just appreciate it more as I get older. So I was really so excited to attend its San Francisco alumni event last week. A few fellow alums and I grabbed dinner after the event. Tim Holley came along. Mr Holley, as he will always be known to me, is on the left. He is also a Gilman alum and has been a teacher there for nearly three decades (he’s not really aging). I also wrote about him last year when I went by the school for a drop-in visit. He taught each of us African American Literature. He coached each of us in baseball or basketball. And he still cares very much about what and how we are doing today. Sitting at dinner, catching one another up on the guys who weren’t present, listening to Mr. Holley’s remembrances of less mature versions of ourselves, I kept thinking about how fortunate we were to have teachers like him. I wish every child had a Mr. Holley at school. And a Gilman.
As I was putting the lid on last year’s image library (which basically means I was moving the files off my computer to my 3 backup locations), I came across lots of images that I really love but hadn’t shared. Let’s face it, when you take 40,000 images a year, not even a loving mother will sit through them all. But here are 20 moments from 2010 that caught my eye the second time around.
Trying to figure out where my pic was?! Didn’t I see you in 2010????
Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend the 2010 ADCOLOR Awards in Miami as one of the photographers for the weekend. In a word, WOW! What an amazing event! ADCOLOR, an industry consortium founded in 2005, is the brainchild of Tiffany R. Warren (see her with award show host Soledad O’Brien in the final image below). The consortium promotes and celebrates the efforts of diverse role models and leaders in the marketing, advertising, and media industries. I have known about ADCOLOR since 2008 when my good friend, Akintayo Adewole, became the music director for the organization. But I really had no idea of how wonderful this event would be. There is such an amazingly motivated group of people, mostly volunteers, who plan and orchestrate the show each fall. This year’s all-star honoree was none other than Queen Latifah. Also in the house were Dwyane Wade and Alonzo Mourning. Some of my favorite moments:
Coltrane Curtis’ award speech. Hilarious and touching.
The afterparty on the yacht hosted by DJ Irie and Kid Capri. Amazing.
Interrupting a D.Wade tweet to ask him to look at me for the image below. He likes his phone time.
Spending time with Akintayo as we indulge our respective passions.
Becoming a member of the ADCOLOR family.
I was completely blown away by what Tiffany and her organization have been able to create in a few short years. Congratulations, ADCOLOR, on a fantastic awards weekend. And thank you.
Coltrane Curtis (award speech)
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