Posts Tagged ‘Mark Garfinkel’

2 Near-Full Moons, 2 Passing Airliners, 6 years apart.

Last night, 6 years after I snapped this photo on the left, I got lucky again with this photo on the right. I was in Mashpee at about 10:45pm when I grabbed a very large lens and waited for this “hole in one.” It took nearly a minute for the jet to go west to east overhead and a little south of my position. The photo on the left was snapped August 26, 2004 from Winthrop. I didn’t realize the significance of the date until I looked up the older photo to compare the two. I believe both were taken at approximately the same time, give or take a 1/2 hour. For the record, I like the older one better because of the trailing contrails.


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I awoke at 5am and drove to Boston Municipal Court on the morning of April 21, 2009. I wanted to photograph Philip Markoff, the man dubbed the “craigslist killer.” This man was apprehended just 12 hours earlier, give or take an hour. My usual shift as a staff photographer at the Boston Herald begins at 6:30am, but on this day  I wanted to be first in line so I could secure the coveted “pool photographer” position for this sensational case. The pool photographer is traditionally the first media person who arrives at court, since the court can’t hold more than one still camera and one video (TV) camera. My photographs of Markoff’s arraignment were carried that day in newspapers, websites and magazines, and at least one book cover, around the world. Now they are being viewed again after his jailhouse suicide.  Here are two of my photos from that, and 3 instances of how the photos have been used this time around.




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A Father’s Pain in a Lynn Courthouse

The killing of 15 year old Rene Valdez brought me to a Lynn courthouse yesterday. Here is Esvin Merida, father of the victim, during a brief recess in the arraignment of 16 year old suspect Jason Walczak. Here is the Herald story by O’Ryan Johnson.


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On This Date in My Photo History: August 5, 2008

(08/05/08-Boston,Mass) Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark Rockefeller, is welcomed back to Boston’s Logan Airport by BPD’s Fugitive Unit in connection with the kidnapping of his young daughter.


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A Buff Anthony Shriver Visits Camp Shriver.

Anthony Shriver, nephew of President John F. Kennedy, shows his diving prowess during a visit with child participants on the closing day of this year’s installment of Camp Shriver, a summer day camp for children with and without disabilities. First he does a flip off the diving board and then he greets camper Liam Galvin. See slide show below. My photos were snapped at UMASS Boston and a Boston Herald story by Natalie Sherman, can be found here.




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On This Date in My Photo History: July 30, 2004

The Democratic National Convention comes to Boston. As part of the Boston Herald’s photo coverage, I was assigned to cover any protest flare ups outside of the then Fleet Center. The above photo is of Boston police Sgt Michael O’Connor speaking with two protestors who are telling him: “it’s just chocolate, honest!” The bottom photo is an arrest of a protestor.


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On This Date in My Photo History: July 27, 2002

Pope John Paul 11 and Bernard Cardinal Law attend World Youth Day in Toronto amid the priest sex abuse scandal. Please see my photos below while on assignment for the Boston Herald.


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On This Date in My Photo History: July 22, 2008

(07/22/08-Boston,Mass)  After a Boston police officer spotted a woman screaming for help as she leaned out a car’s passenger side window, a high speed chase ensued on the southeast expressway. After nearly 8 miles, police boxed the car in between an innocent driver’s SUV and a guardrail. The driver then repeatedly rammed the car in front and several cruisers, wreaking havoc along the highway. The victim said the woman driving was her wife and that they got into an argument. Here, below top, guns drawn then an innocent driver whose car inadvertently blocked in the suspect’s car is protected by police. Below bottom is the dramatic sequence. Photographed while on my Herald shift.

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Happy Birthday Gisele! 30 years old today.

Here are some of my photos of Gisele over the years. From hanging with Tom Brady and her dogs to hanging with her helicopter instructor Stuart Matsumoto.


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Tonight’s Lightning: A Photo Looking North From Medford.

This moment was around 9:30pm tonight. A strong bolt, but I wish my foreground was a bit more interesting. Maybe next time…


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