Cliff Owen

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.

Dr. Amit Maity, Chief, Radiation Oncology Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadephia listens as charges, that his hospital improperly inserted radioactive seeds into patients, are read during US Nuclear Regulatory Commission enforcement hearings, Thu. Dec. 17, 2009 in Rockville, Md.

On Thanksgiving day, Army Dr. Col. Craig Shriver did what had never been done for a combat wounded soldier. The bullet-scarred pancreas from an Air Force Airman who was shot in Afghanistan was flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to the University of Miami, where insulin-producing cells were salvaged from the organ and flown back to be dropped into the man’s liver.

Read the Miami Herald story in here:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1383912.html

Army Dr. Craig Shriver, Chief of General Surgery, Walter Reed Army Medical Center photographed at a press conference 12/15  for McClatchy-Tribune

Whitney Dangefield and Mark Sparrough dance their first dance as a married couple at Raspberry Plain in Leesburg, Virginia.

Emma shows me how to flash the peace sign during a lighting test in the backyard Sunday afternoon.

American financial executive & author Robert Pozen for McClatchy-Tribune News Service

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster speaks with reporters after attending a hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 13, 2009, regarding the water rights of the Catawba River for North and South Carolina. Shot for McClatchy News Service.