Shooting video is something I’m trying to make a routine part of going out on assignment, even if I’m just supposed to be taking photos or writing a short article.

Will is getting ready to apply for the Eddie Adams workshop, a super exclusive and prestigious four-day retreat of 100 photographers who are either students or have less than three years professional experience. The deadline is Friday so I sent Will’s photo submission to a couple of friends, Danny Ghitis and Celia Tobin, who both have gone.

A week ago I was in Sequoia National Park – taking photos like always – but new to me was the experience of recording video footage with my Canon 5D MKII.

As an assistant, there are a lot of hats you have to wear. Errand runner, light setter, gaffer tape expert. Sometimes being a model is one of these hats.

I spent the last three days setting up lights (and then sitting under them) for a photo shoot with some suitcases. There are some photos of me pulling a girl around in a suitcase but let’s save that for another time.

It looks like Jackie spent the month partying with her friends and playing with ironic culture debris.

We missed March’s peer review, primarily because it was miserable in the city and I didn’t have any assignments or inspirations. By the looks of April, Will probably had a lovely March that we will never get to see. Good thing we are back in action with New York warming up!

I have been doing a lot of onsite teaching for my studio as of late. Tonight I will be in the basement of the Metropolitan during the Met Gala, furiously downloading cards, editing and sending out choice shots (I’ve got my eye on you, Maya Arulpragasam).

Tomorrow will be very similar but with me working the Time 100. A few weeks ago, however, I did a more traditional gig and worked on a set of a lookbook for Judith Leiber that my bossman was shooting. If you don’t recognize that label, it’s probably because you don’t have three grand to drop on a purse. That’s alright, I don’t either.

Everything was done very sporadically and casual. Friends of the designer and art director modeled the new line at a dinner party thrown specifically for the shoot at the restaurant where my boss is part owner. Not having a stylized set was a bit of a headache, with me screeching that there were far too many glasses of water blocking the purses and ugly half-eaten plates ruining perfectly good shots, but my boss does au-na

For the past two and a half months, I’ve been interning at Via, AAA’s travel magazine for Northern California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. On top of adding several new destinations to my travel list, I’ve already learned a lot about magazine production, from pitching and assigning stories through the various levels of editing, and I hope to share my discoveries over the next few months.

During my first few days of work, I learned that it’s nearly impossible for freelancers to get feature pitches accepted at Via (you have a better chance of getting accepted to Harvard). There are a number of reasons for this, including the magazine’s bi-monthly frequency and small size, the fact that editors map out feature stories as much as a year in advance, because the magazine has grown to depend on a group of tried-and-true veteran freelancers who are given regular assignments, and because it’s very rare that you and I have heard of a must-see destination that a travel magazine ed