HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 26, 2011: Bands of snow are visible in the sky above the Hollywood sign as a rainbow shines in the foreground. Snow and small hail fell in Los Angeles as the area experienced some of its lowest temperatures in modern history.

Various celebrities sporting hot fashions on the red (blue!) carpet for the premiere of TRON in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

W Korea Takes My Side, Fixes Demi Moore’s

Right when you thought (hoped) this whole thing was over, something comes along that, as the Jerky Boys would say, puts a whole different paint job on things. I was back in Maine for Christmas (and of course, holding my breath for an apology and retraction from Demi Moore and her legal team), just hanging out with my Mom and her cat – and in came a cameraphone tip from halfway ’round the world. [Thanks, Joe!] Well, the January 2010 issue of W Korea just hit the newsstands (with the ironic subtitle “Women in Full”).

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[Also see my 12/27 update: W Korea Takes My Side, Fixes Demi's]

On Tuesday night, I received an aggressive and threatening letter from Martin Singer, Demi Moore’s attorney. It is marked “Confidential Legal Notice – Publication or Dissemination is Prohibited”. However, since Mr. Singer and I have no confidentiality agreement, and it provides essential context to the matter at hand, I have decided to publish it.

I’ll start by expressing how bizarre it feels to be immersed in a controversy that should be no controversy at all. The question of whether a celebrity photo was clumsily retouched is not one I am particularly proud of spending my mental cycles on.

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Images from “The Lovely Bones” premiere in Hollywood, December 7, 2009.

As many of you know, I’m all about the color. Here is some recent tripolicious fashion and beauty I did with the lovely Jessa.

The story that follows is long and a bit convoluted, but it’s necessary to understand the situation and my reasoning behind releasing the images herein.

On August 29, I decided to go shoot some breaking-news images of the Station Fire, a massive wildfire conflagration which continues to burn as I write this in early October. I spent a significant amount of that day inside the forest shooting. The forest was closed to the public and I was admitted as media – told I was “on my own” which was just fine with me. Late in the afternoon, as I was making my way back out, I came across a rather eerie looking scene at a turnout a few miles from the forest boundary. It just looked and felt weird – the fire hoses sitting there in a box (apparently staging by the firefighters), the gnarly blackened trees, etc. So I pulled in and took a couple photos of the site.

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