KIM WALKER PHOTO

portraiture

Nate Hanscom pulls on a pair of gloves before making a lobster roll at his stand, Rye Harbor Lobster, in Rye Beach, N.H. Hanscom's roll, which uses lobster cooked in sherry, won best lobster roll in the 2006 Hampton Beach Seafood Festival.
   
Corey Boisver, 10, poses in her Irish tap dancing costume at her Concord, N.H., home.
   
Forbes Cook sits in the living room of his home of 45 years. He is one of hundreds of people who invested in Mobile Billboards of America, a scheme that bilked about $40 million from investors, and now he is struggling to make ends meet.
     
  
Miwako Sue poses at Duke Gardens for a portrait before her wedding day. Since her biological family is in Japan too far away for the North Carolina ceremony, her "American grandmother" will be giving her away.
   
Otto Long poses, showing off his intricate facial and head tattoos, at Little John's Tattoo in Greensboro, N.C.
   
Christopher O'Callaghan, senior director at Cushman & Wakefield, poses inside The 800 Westchester Avenue complex.
     
  
Veteran Alfred Della Rocco pauses during the closing ceremony of the West Harrison Veterans Day parade in Silver Lake Park, N.Y.
   
Paul Varley, who still favors vinyl, has been a small-time D.J. since college. The father of two has moved from fraternity parties to his daughters' school dances but says Tone Loc works equally well for both demographics.
   
Laura Vookles, chief curator of collections at the Hudson River Museum, is also a poet on the side. She began by writing memoirs that ultimately evolved into poetry, and now she competes in poetry slams nationally.
     
  
Carol Del Guidice has been a second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in Mount Vernon, N.Y., for 23 years. She says having a job she loves is one of the things for which she is most thankful.
   
Johnnie Wilcox stretches in his yard after a six-mile afternoon run. An avid runner for 24 years, he says that running "puts me in touch with my place in the world. I'm in my body...and it gives me a great feeling of well being."