I've been a photographer at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. since early 2000. My main focus for several years has been studio photography including photo illustrations and shooting sports. I previously worked for The Cincinnati Enquirer, North Hills News Record and Everett (Wash.) Herald. I'm blessed to be a photojournalist; the people and places I've photographed over the past 20 years, here and abroad, will be a part of me for the rest of my life. It's truly a beautiful feeling to be allowed into someone's life, even for a moment, to make photographs and share them with the public. I was part The Star-Ledger team who was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for the resignation of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey. In 2002, I shared The Dart Award with reporter Matt Reilly, for a story about a Siberian orphan who was beaten and froze to death in the custody of his adoptive parents in central New Jersey. I'm a member of The Dart Society, National Press Photographers, New York Press Photographers and New Jersey Press Photographers Associations. I live with my wife Dana and our 2 children in Lawrenceville, N.J.
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Around 500 small bonfires are lit near 5000 apple trees by Farmer Adam Costello of Wightman’s Farms, in Morristown, NJ. around midnight Tuesday March 27, 2012. The fires were lit to keep his trees warm because of the frost. Adam said, “This is the first time I’ve had to do this, if I don’t I’ll lose a major part of my crops.” The smoke hovering around the trees will help keep them warm by a couple of degrees, which could make a difference. He said that his apple trees budded 3 1/2 weeks earlier this year because of the warmer temps earlier in the month. The goal is to keep the fires burning across 16 acres of apple and peach trees, all night in an attempt to keep the area warm enough. This is the first time in 10 years that the DEP has allowed farmers to do this in Morristown.
