Speaking to UT students and faculty, Microsoft founder Bill Gates spoke of the future of technology, the software industry, the goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and his last day in office.
Television cameras encircle a young boy at a 7AM Harry Potter launch party in a Hong Kong Bookstore. The final installment of J.K. Rowling's fantasy series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours.
Members of the Valerio family wait for the October 12, 2007 prisoner release at Huntsville Penitentiary. Eight members and four generations of the family waited six hours before reuniting with a son, husband, and father who had been imprisoned since 2004.
A parishioner leaves the back door of the Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church between the 8am and 10am services. The fast-growing urban black church is blossoming in a traditionally poorer area of Austin, running three packed services every Sunday.
A man practices basketball by himself in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong, Thursday, May 27, 2004.
Manali Kasbekar closes her eyes as makeup is applied for her wedding at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin.
Poured by her mother. water flows down the hands of Manali Kasbekar (center), her father, and her fiancé during the Kanyavaran ceremony at a traditional Indian wedding.
"Girls," or immigrant domestic workers, carry two of the ten dogs owned by the Cheung household in Hong Kong.
Dancers at a wedding in the Driskill Hotel in Downtown Austin.
The Pomona-Pitzer football team scores the first point against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in their Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003 homecoming game. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps went on to win the game against their rival schools in the Claremont consortium.
Vanja Corovic serves the ball in an easly season match. A freshman player from Serbia, Corovic is one of the rising stars of the UT Women's Tennis team.
Sean Carasso addresses attendees of the "White Flag Parade," one of many events coordinated by the Invisible Children group, which seeks to raise awareness about Ugandan refugee children.
UT graduate students Nicholas Rojeski, Cristal Glanchai, Jakub Felkl and Abiola Ajetunmobi pose in "bunny suits" in the Pickle Research Campus in Austin. The students recently won a $25,000 award for "NanoTaxi," a new method of targeted drug release.
Scarcely married for 15 minutes, Shelby "MamaSoBrave" and Gabe "Jagermeister" hold for a wedding portrait at AMTGARD’s “Spring War.” AMTGARD is an organization of “Live Action Role-Players,” a game of romanticized swordplay and magic.
Portrait of Kristin Siegrist and her youngest daughter. A single mother of three, Siegrist is also the "Linden Tul, Queen of the Celestial Kingdom," leader of an organization of fantasy role-players that covers most of central Texas.
While their brothers play on the field and their mothers watch the Little League game of A's versus Yankees, sisters and daughters play their own games under the stands.
Lily Hogan plays in a field of 138 candles that represent daily Texan cancer diagnoses. Her mother, Shelly Hogan, is one of the event coordinators at “Light Up the Dome,” an American Cancer Society vigil for those whom have lost the fight against cancer.
Congressional Aide Andrew Brown stands outside a ring of candles at “Light Up the Dome,” an American Cancer Society vigil. Due to his position, Brown cannot enter the event, so he waits by the candle named for his grandfather, who died of lung cancer.
Caught by his reflection in the mirror, Temple Ealey poses while his therapist continues to entreat him to move the rubber innertube to the other side of the room on Monday, Oct. 11, 2006. Ealey is autistic.
Miles Tolany, an autistic child, schedules his day from alternatives offered by therapists. Each activity is represented by a small picture, a name, and a simple song. This encourages him to get involved with the world, while still a reassuring routine.
Brooks Brannon, singer, songwriter, and bartender, puts out the tip jars at Hole in the Wall, a local Austin bar and venue.
A young girl runs in Pease Park in Bastrop, Tex. Her father is a member of a medieval roleplay society, and both he and her often engage in games of make-believe, sword fighting, and magic.
Tami Fish, 21, cries in her San Antonio, Texas church as parishioners around her pray for her safety, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2005. In less than 12 hours, Fish is en route to her first tour in Iraq.
Tami Fish holds her baby daughter Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, a year and a half after her deployment to Iraq. Now married and the mother of a military family, she lives with her husband Pete Fish near an Air Force base in northern Florida.
Mount Baldy, Calif. on the morning of Sunday, May 9, 2004. This image is a digitally merged panorama of two shots, one covering the top half of the image, the other covering the bottom.
A Claremont police officer examines professor Kerri Dunn's vandalized car March 9, 2004. The spray-painted hate speech shook the Claremont colleges and prompted administrators to cancel classes for a "Day of Reconciliation."
Attendees at the International Drag King Extravaganza in Austin, Texas motion for a friend to join them at the bar, Oct. 20, 2006. The four-day extravaganza celebrates drag-king culture and the mutability of gender.
Photo-Illustration for the Daily Texan. According to local myth, a pretty girl wakes up after a party in a bathtub full of ice. On her there is a note: "Call 911, we've stolen your kidneys."
Photo Illustration of Harmon Lee and the band Jadens Move. Five minute exposure made with strobe and small LED lights.
Photo Illustration for HKIPP2005, a Hong Kong photographer's trade magazine. Drops of Chinese ink form the number "2005." Ink drop source images taken by Oswald Chang.
Photo Illustration for the Daily Texan. "The Infuser," winner of the Sci-Fi network's reality TV show "Who Wants to be a Superhero," faces off against his arch-nemesis "Lord Vile" in a battle of competing haunted houses.
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama shakes the hands of supporters at the Texas Democratic Party Watch Party shortly after his Austin debate with Hillary Clinton.
Hi. My name is Jon, I am 25 29 years old and live in Austin, Tex New York. I graduated from Claremont McKenna with a Harvey Mudd computer science degree and completed most of a masters at the University of Texas photojournalism program. I work for the New York Times as a multimedia journalist. My (outdated) portfolio is on the left, my resume is (not) linked below. This website is officially mothballed and archived.