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Last week consumed me with finals and moving out of my apartment. The last two days were consumed by traveling to literally the opposite side of Planet Earth from Ventura, California. I landed in Johannesburg, South Africa along with my two friends and crew members David Branson and Jarred Ray. At the airport we met up with our producer Jimena Grijalva and our director/tour director/host Brent Rumble. Once settled into our new abode just south of Johannesburg we were greeted by Brent’s family and another one of our crew members Lindsey Reese. My mind is just barely beginning to function properly again, but I am excited and optimistic to begin work on our tremendous project. You will be able to follow all of us here at findingmadiba.com.

An early morning meet and greet with Ross AKA Gato Meow, and Mark, camera man for the nation wide series, Bum Fights.

Today I shot a quick portrait of James Lipscomb for the WSJ. Story Here

James Lipscomb, stands in front of the Central Lutheran Church in Downtown Minneapolis. Lispcomb was an editor and art manager of Augsburg Fortress, the official publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for 33 years until he was laid off at the end of 2008. Through a loophole granted to organizations affiliated with churches he saw his pension cut by more than 30%.

On Monday I received an assignment to head to Livingston, Wisc. to photograph meteorite hunters. Mike Farmer 38, a meteorite hunter from Tuscan, Ariz., looks for meteorite fragments on a farm in Mifflin. On April 14, a large meteor estimated to be the size of a Volkswagen beetle size split apart and lit the night sky of Southwestern Wisconsin. Farmer has spent the last 14 years hunting meteorites which has taken him to over 60 countries. Story Here