Gaithersburg Book Festival (2015) -- David Axelrod ("Believer") w/Dan Balz:
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Description of Pictures: David Axelrod: Believer:
David Axelrod spent eight years as a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Tribune. As a political consultant, he has managed strategy for more than 150 local, state and national campaigns. He most recently served as senior strategist to President Obama’s successful reelection campaign and also served in that same role in then-Senator Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, before going on to serve in the White House as senior adviser to the president. After the 2012 campaign, Axelrod founded the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. His New York Times best-selling book, "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics," takes readers behind the closed doors of politics.
Dan Balz: Collision 2012:
Dan Balz is Chief Correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 1978 and has been involved in the paper’s political coverage as a reporter or editor throughout his career there. In addition to his political and campaign reporting, he has served as the Post’s National Editor, covered the White House during part of the first Bush administration and over the years has written extensively about Congress. He also served as the paper’s Southwest correspondent, based in Texas, and briefly reported from London in 1997. Balz is author of two New York Times best-selling books about recent presidential campaigns: Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America and, with Haynes Johnson, The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election. He is also co-author, with Ronald Brownstein of Atlantic Media, of the 1996 book, Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival, an analysis of the Republican victories in the 1994 elections and the reshaping of the Republican Party. Balz has won numerous awards during his career at the Post, most recently the Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. He has also received recognition from the American Political Science Association, th ...More...
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2015 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha!
Trips this year:
a quick trip to Florida.
two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and
my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles).
Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.
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