Cliff Owen

Afghan President Hamid Karzai participates in a discussion with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Thursday, May 13, 2010.

The photo editors at the New York Times ‘Lens’ blog have been kind to my images the past year, or so  :-)

Michael Donley, secretary of the Air Force, pauses while speaking during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fisher House and meditation pavilion for the families of fallen soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, at Dover Air Force Base, Saturday, May 1, 2010.

photographed for the AP

Tabi Bonney, top, and Marti Brom, bottom, perform at the Wammies 2010 awards show in the State Theater, Falls Church, Virginia, Sunday February 28th.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner waits to testify before the Senate Budget Committee about President Obama’s 2011 budget.

photographed at a Congressional hearing for the AP

I was a sports photo stringer for two local newspapers when I was a teenager in northern Virginia. One evening, when I was just 19 years old,  I convinced the powers that be at the Capital Centre, home of the Washington Bullets, to let me photograph the Bullets – 76ers game from the catwalk directly over a basket. All I have from that experience is this single copy from the next day’s newspaper showing Elvin Hayes attempting to stop Dr. J from scoring.