DeclareArms complete!

. . . except for being entirely unfinished.

My original intent with this project was to document shooting events between Super Tuesday and Election Day, and then fall into a heap of journalistic accomplishment. Well, the election is over, and I've accomplished a great deal here, but I don't want to stop shooting.

One thing I've learned over the years is that if you think you know what you're doing, you're wrong. My intent for this project--pursuing some kind of publication or exhibit--was pretty off-target. And of course, The District and the election filled up the late summer like mosquitoes on a screened-in porch.

I guess I'm always looking for that one amazing photograph that will finish the project. As if Joe Rosenthal said, "Oh, I've photographed some marines raising a flag on Iwo Jima. I can stop now."

The reality is, most documentary projects either take much longer than the three years I've spent on this one, or take much more money that I've spent on this one. So the project continues . . .