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I’ve been cooking a lot more recently and we’ve both enjoyed this recipe from Alton Brown.

Ingredients

• 6 ounces garlic-flavored croutons
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 onion, roughly chopped
• 1 carrot, peeled and broken
• 3 whole cloves garlic
• 1/2 red bell pepper
• 18 ounces ground chuck
• 18 ounces ground sirloin
• 1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 egg

For the glaze:

• 1/2 cup catsup
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• Dash Worcestershire sauce
• Dash hot pepper sauce
• 1 tablespoon honey

Directions

Heat oven to 325 degrees F.

In a food processor bowl, combine croutons, black pepper, cayenne pepper, chili powder, and thyme. Pulse until the mixture is of a fine texture. Place this mixture into a large bowl. Combine the onion, carrot, garlic, and red pepper in the food processor bowl. Pulse until the mixture is finely chopped, but not pureed. Combine the vegetable mixture, ground sirloin, and ground chuck with the bread crumb mixture. Season the meat mixture with the kosher salt. Add the egg and combine thoroughly, but avoid squeezing the meat.

Pack this mixture into a 10-inch loaf pan to mold the shape of the meatloaf. Onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, turn the meatloaf out of the pan onto the center of the tray. Insert a temperature probe at a 45 degree angle into the top of the meatloaf. Avoid touching the bottom of the tray with the probe. Set the probe for 155 degrees.

Combine the catsup, cumin, Worcestershire sauce, hot pepper sauce and honey. Brush the glaze onto the meatloaf after it has been cooking for about 10 minutes.

Meatloaf uncooked (and further proof that I shouldn’t be a food photographer)

I went through my pile of business cards and decided which ones are worth filing and which ones are not. I came across a few that amused me when I was first handed them. I don’t claim to have the best business card, but think I’ve narrowed it down to the essentials and they don’t cost me a fortune to print. If I could spend $200 on 500 business cards I would order my cards from BrooklynSocialCards.com. They do some first-class looking letterpress cards. Does a fantastic business card help your business, or is it more the case that a bad business card is detrimental? As long as the card stock isn’t too thin and there is enough information to get hold of the person immediately then that’s all is REALLY needed!

This first card gave me the impression that she was either desperate for any kind of employment, really full of herself or incredibly talented and had to be employed NOW! I met her assisting some photographers as a card runner during fashion week.

These small business cards seem to be in fashion right now. They include a variety of images on the back so each card you give out can be unique. I’ve found that they are the kind of card that’s lost really easily and hard to file. Do people really hold onto business cards or do they take them home and enter the information into their address books and throw them away? (Moo Cards)

This fashion designer had bedazzled his card which kind of makes sense if you knew his tie-dye pop clothing but doesn’t help with storing his card.

This last card is for a PR person who should probably buy a real domain name and write these inspirational messages on their fridge so when they eat their breakfast they can get the boost they so badly need.

It’s finally here, so set your Tivo, practice your fist pumping and get watching!!!

This is Scott’s picture in New York Magazine that he took down on the Jersey Shore while I was assisting this summer.

For the actual (non cell phone) pictures taken for Getty Images go here

If only they had Indiana Jones Lego! Or even just add on turbans, whips or hats for my generic lego!!

Underwater Photography is a particular talent that requires a particular set of very expensive equipment. Rarely do you see it in Black and White, and rarely do I like it so much.

by Wayne Levin

I’ve been avoiding books for the past few months. I don’t know if it’s based on working too much, too lazy or too busy thumbing through “People” and “Intouch.” Having taken the weekend off and just received Andy Rooney’s book, I’m half way through and loving it. He has a talent in pointing out the obvious or what most of us really think. He also complains about the strangest things like chocolate chip cookies or vacations.

In photojournalist terms I am very new to this industry but have been amazed over the past 6 months how nice people have been to me. I’ve secretly put in some years behind the scenes at the desk of wireimage, but nothing to compared to most. I hardly knew A.J., but had certainly met him, worked alongside him many times over the summer and exchange jokes about the job.

By Daryl Lang, Photo District News

Nov 3, 2009, 02:44 PM ET

Celebrity shooter A.J. Sokalner, admired by his colleagues for his quiet, passionate commitment to photography, collapsed Monday night outside an event in New York and died a short time later, according to his agency.

Sokalner was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital, said Philip Vaughan, owner of ACE Pictures. Vaughan said an emergency worker told him Sokalner had suffered a heart attack.

Sokalner collapsed minutes after entertainer Lady Gaga arrived at the ACE Awards, an event hosted by the Accessories Council at Cipriani on 42nd Street. He was part of a group of about 25 photographers working a rope line outside the venue, according to friend and fellow photographer Dennis Van Tine.

Gaga was the big star of the night, and photographers waited inside and outside the venue for her arrival at about 9 p.m. Van Tine was inside when he heard from another photographer that Sokalner had fallen outside. Van Tine says he went out and saw paramedics attempt to revive Sokalner for several minutes, then load him into an ambulance. Another photographer notified Sokalner’s girlfriend. She and several photographers gathered at the hospital, where they learned Sokalner had died.

Sokalner was in his late 50s and lived in Manhattan. Vaughan says Sokalner was a hard worker who shot for ACE Pictures on a daily basis. “He was very well liked, he was very well respected,” Vaughan says. “He was a real photographer and he did it because he loved it.”

Van Tine says Sokalner studied the works of great photographers and tried to inject “pizazz” into his images, and was “one of those silent guys who goes out and shoots every day.”

“He was a cynic in the great New York tradition,” Van Tine says. “He knew what was right, he knew what was wrong, he knew who the crooks were.”