Beatles Collector Russ Lease for AARP.org
I got a phone call from AARP.org a while back with a really neat assignment: photograph Beatles memorabilia collector Russ Lease with his incredible collection. The guy isn’t your run of the mill hobbyist- he owns more gold records than most recording artists. That they happen to all be Beatles gold records makes them pretty [...]
Out to Pasture
I’m currently undergoing a major SEO overhaul of my primary website, melissagolden.com. That means I’m also getting around to clearing out the back room shelves of pictures that used to be featured but are now just collecting dust and taking up space on the servers. Before I take them down from the shelves and chuck [...]
National Capital Cat Show
I made a series of portraits at the National Capital Cat show back in 2008 and I went again this year to add to the collection. I suppose you could say cat show portraits are a sort of hobby of mine. They tickle all the right parts of my brain. I also learn neat cat [...]
Helena Lazaro for Marie Claire
Back in May Marie Claire assigned me to a story that made me angry to even contemplate. It was shocking and unbelievable and utterly repugnant. You ready for this? My subject, the lovely Ms. Helena Lazaro is a rape survivor. She was abducted, assaulted and then released under this overpass in Commerce, CA when she [...]
Free Fallin’
[Visible in this picture: The Kodak Theater, Hotel Roosevelt, El Capitan and the downtown LA skyline. Not pictured but part of my view: the Capital Records building and the beautiful hollywood hills. Click on the picture for a larger view.] I know I said I was going to post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and [...]