Dr. Christine Laine, editor of The Annals of Internal Medicine.

Recently, Hamilton College, located in Clinton, New York, commissioned me to photograph one of their Philadelphia-based alumni, Dr. Christine Laine. In celebration of alumni accomplishments for Hamilton’s bicentennial year, this photograph appears on their website and in their alumni magazine.

Dr. Laine, class of 1983, is the editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, a widely distributed and cited medical journal that is published every two weeks by the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia. In addition to editing one of America’s major medical journals, Dr. Laine continues to see patients at Jefferson Medical College.

I used the shelves of historic bound copies of the Annals as a background while having Dr. Laine hold a current issue. We set up lighting to highlight her in this environment.

As editor, she is overseeing the creation of an iPad version of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Laine in her office.

SunGard, a software and technology services company, hosts a “Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day”. They invited me in to take pictures of the kids.

To make the day meaningful, the children were encouraged to make things to illustrate what each of their parents do for a living.

How do you show that your dad works to protect people’s computers and data? Why, wrap yourself in bubble wrap!

This boy’s pose reminded me of the monsters in Maurice Sendak’s, “Where the Wild Things Are”.

I brought a bunch of brightly colored backgrounds to SunGard’s headquarters, and we hung out with the kids for the whole morning, taking lots of pictures of them with their creations.

It was a lot fun photographing them and feeding off of their energy.

Dressed as a security guard, protecting data.

A FedEx box becomes a “sick” computer server.

Have you taken your daughter or son to work, lately?