Looking forward to their wedding next month!

Saturday market at Rittenhouse Square

Finally decided to try out the f/zero TRA Photoshop action!

Outside one of their favorite bars in Center City Philadelphia

A few days I was a guest at a book signing in midtown Manhattan for one of my former clients, Theresa, who just released a new amazing book called Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (Jack Johnson was an American boxing legend and world heavy weight boxing champion from 1908 – 1915). I also happened to have shot the back cover photo of her and so it was pretty exciting to see the finished product in person!

Below are some photos of the actual book that I now proudly own and can’t wait to read as well as some photos I took at the book signing. Make sure you click on the book link above to read more about Theresa’s book that’s being sold on Amazon.com!

The book signing

Theresa’s Bio -

A former professional dancer/actress from Canada, Theresa Runstedtler chose to shift her passion for popular culture from the studio and stage to the classroom. She graduated with a PhD in African American Studies and History from Yale University in 2007, and she is now an Assistant Professor of American studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). For the 2011-2012 academic year, she was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarly articles appear in Canadian Issues (Fall 2005), In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2005), the Encyclopedia of World History, the Radical History Review (Winter 2009), and the Journal of World History (December 2010). She is also a periodic contributor to the newblackman.blogspot.com, racialicious.com and other sites. For more information, please visit www.theresarunstedtler.com

And here are a couple book descriptions from Amazon.com -

“Theresa Runstedtler traces Jack Johnson’s fabulous, furious, iconic life across five continents and through four paradigms (race, masculinity, imperialism, and popular culture), setting a formidably high bar in the emerging genre of transnational biography. Jack Johnson: Rebel Sojourner is a groundbreaking achievement.”–David Levering Lewis, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race.

“This is a brilliantly researched and original study of the transnational career of the black American boxer Jack Johnson. In lucid and engaging prose, Theresa Runstedtler traces Johnson’s travels across multiple continents, showing how Johnson’s life serves as a cultural compass for the intersecting worlds of American, British, and French empire and ideas of race at the turn of the last century. This marvelous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the popular culture of imperialism and transnationalism will find a wide and appreciative audience among scholars of empire, American history, and African American studies.”–Kevin Gaines, author of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era.

Enjoy these photos.

And finally a photo with mum and dad!

Vanessa’s twin sister, Jessica, was the best maid of honor

Their first look was so sweet!

Vanessa was walked down the Isle by her two grandfathers

Happily married!

Any other photogs reading “The Luminous Portrait by Elizabeth Messina”? I pre-ordered it on Amazon a couple months ago and was so excited to receive it in the mail today – Elizabeth Messina is one of my favorite favorite favorite photographers! (Check out her amazing blog here).

I can’t wait to read it – so far the reviews are great!

I had photographed my lovely friend Vickii’s cupcakes while I was on holiday in London over Thanksgiving last year (see them here) and she got the photos printed onto these cute business cards for her baking business. She was here to visit not to long ago and gave me one of each card – How cute are they?!

Vickii owns the divine baking blog called “I Bake Therefore I Am” which you need to visit immediately; While she isn’t state-side, she does share some lovely recipes on her blog that you can try out. And if you live in London you can contact her via her blog for her cake list and how to place an order.

I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend.

Back soon with more updates.