The wife and I walked the dogs during the beautiful evening Monday. The beaten cell phone in my pocket decided to ring near the end of the quick jaunt. The call was to inform me I'd spend the better part of the next two weeks traveling Annapolis way to cover the General Assembly Special Session — something I had never done.

The room in which the assembly meets when in joint session is dark and crowded; this is what I discovered once I found the right place. It is dismally dark. And the table at which presenters to the session sit is cloaked in more darkness than the rest of the room.

In general, the situation does not present a lot of great photo opportunities. Legislators sitting and listening to testimony is not much different than people sitting around the office. Therefore the photographer has to look for subtle bits of gesture and posture to convey emotion and mood. If it happens to be one of the bigger names in the room, the better.

(NIKON D2Xs, Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8, 1/80th sec. @ f/2.8, ISO 1600)

The caption reads: Michael Busch (far right) speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, Tuesday morning during a fiscal briefing by the Department of Legislative Services.

Busch seemed uncomfortable during most of the briefing. Whether it was due to what was being said I do not know, but it works for me.

I will try to share more from Annapolis and update when possible.