FLY Fashion

Last Friday I spent some of my evening attending a fashion show in The Tavern at my old stomping grounds of American University. It was quite a show featuring some dancing, some runway walking, some musical entertainment and a little bit more. Shout out to my man Josh Murray who impressively put this whole thing together.

Josh...and William

I posted earlier this month about a shoot that Josh and I did. Last Saturday I had the pleasure of photographing Josh and his little brother William (both FLY Youth). Again we went out to the MTerrace offices in Rockville where we ran into Thomas and Sabrey of GoodHood fame who just happened to be recording a song that day.

Thanks to a basketball hoop in the office (yep, a real basketball hoop) William was very involved in breaking my record of 29 straight baskets. He says he made 33, but I don't believe him because no one was watching and only he kept count. Officially, my record still stands. Sorry William...keep on pushin'. Shout out to Annie and Josh's and William's grandmother.

FLY Exclusive

This is Josh. Josh was one of the first youth involved with the organization Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY) and has been since he was eight years old. Josh, who is now 16, found out that I am a photographer from my lovely girlfriend who works at FLY and decided he needed some pictures to put on his MySpace. "Mike, they gotta be exclusive son" is what he says to me. So this is what I came up with. Josh isn't a rapper (though he smiles like one), but since I had full artistic direction, I did what I wanted. And in the end, he surmised that they were indeed, pretty exclusive. Shout out to Jonathan Mannion who is the reason that I turned Josh into a rapper that day.