The week of Super Bowl 43 in Tampa was insane. For the St. Pete Times Forum it was one of our most successful weeks ever. Three Concerts and a Lightning Game. Celine Dion, The Eagles, Dane Cook and the Lightning vs Philadelphia Flyers. Parties every night and oh yea a little thing called the Super Bowl. Next time I’m leaving town, it was crazy!

Oren Koules the owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning surprised Dane with a one of a kind, Gibson Les Paul Robot Guitar. Dane was actually speechless.

OK Superman had Kryptonite, My secret is I suffer from Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns.

How can you not love Angus Young. This dude just Rocks IT!

Today I brought home my new baby. She’s a 7 week old Rottweiler puppy, pure German Blood line, DNA registered with the AKC. She is beautiful, She is also the demon spawn of Satan himself. Never before have a had a dog that can get into so much trouble so quickly. Turn your eye for even one second and she has destroyed something. Don’t let that cute face fool you, she’s a Monster, A MONSTER I tell you!

Last night I had to put Kobe the wonder dog to sleep. She had contracted cancer and I thought she was doing well. It seems in one day she took a turn for the worse. I held her in my arms as she took her last breath. I had forgotten how painful this was. The next day I learned that it could be even more painful. It seems that at the SAME time I was at the Vet’s putting Kobe to sleep my dear friend Ernest Olds was taking his last breath. Ernest passed away from heart failure, I will miss them both more than I can say….

OK there are days at work and then there are days at work…. Today I was taken captive and forced by a client to spend the day at sea on a 2.5 million dollar, 65′ Marquis Yacht. This boat was sick, you could eat off the floor of the engine room. It was another shoot for Flair Magazine. The model was Orsolya and Kim Ulmer did makeup for me. Kim’s husband is my dive buddy Tony, all I could think about was if we hijack the boat we could be in Key West by sunrise!

Today I did another shoot for the duPont Registry with Vinny Lecavlier. This issue of the Tampa Bay Magazine was all about Tampa celebrities top 10 picks. We met up at Vinny’s favorite restaurant Roy’s. Vinny and I have a little private joke among ourselves. Seems there was this 360 Ferrari spider and a Dinan BMW M3 on the expressway one night. Guess who took their foot out of it first?

I can’t tell you how proud I was to be able to photograph Barack Obama on one of his campaign stops in Florida. OK the Secret Service guys were a little bit scary but it was well worth the time…..