When I was on assignment taking photos in Afghanistan, my boyfriend Brian was on vacation in the Grand Canyon for a week so was unable to call me for part of the time. He took his guitar to the beach, and other beautiful places near to where we live and recorded me a series of songs. He put them on YouTube and set his email to automatically send me one for every day he was away. I sat in the Reuters office in Kabul, with a massive satellite dish in the garden. Through music, video, and technology, I felt very connected to home.

When I was on assignment taking photos in Afghanistan in 2009, my boyfriend Brian was on vacation in the Grand Canyon for a week, so was unable to call me for part of the time. He took his guitar to the beach, and other beautiful places near to where we live and recorded me a series of songs. He put them on YouTube and set his email to automatically send me one for every day he was away. I sat in the Reuters office in Kabul, with a massive satellite dish in the garden. Through music, video, and technology, I felt very connected to home.

A lot of buildings in Los Angeles have ugly 1970s architecture. I wanted to replicate the red and pink geranium window boxes I'd seen in Italy and France.

Photos and magnets on our refrigerator. I am reminded of family, friends and holidays when I open the door.

A mourning dove gave birth to two chicks in the hanging geranium pot on our balcony. We watched them learn to fly, and now they come back to visit her as she sits on two more eggs. The father sits on the eggs from morning to afternoon, and the mother the rest of the day and at night.

Egrets hunt for food in the breaking waves on the beach near where I live. When they fly their long legs trail behind them as they are powered by their powerful unfolding wings.

This is our bookshelf. I've lived in a lot of places, and haven't kept many possessions, but have always found it hard to let go of books.

When I was on assignment taking photos in Afghanistan in 2009, my boyfriend Brian was on vacation in the Grand Canyon for a week, so was unable to call me for part of the time. He took his guitar to the beach, and other beautiful places near to where we live and recorded me a series of songs. He put them on YouTube and set his email to automatically send me one for every day he was away. I sat in the Reuters office in Kabul, with a massive satellite dish in the garden. Through music, video, and technology, I felt very connected to home.

When I was on assignment taking photos in Afghanistan in 2009, my boyfriend Brian was on vacation in the Grand Canyon for a week, so was unable to call me for part of the time. He took his guitar to the beach, and other beautiful places near to where we live and recorded me a series of songs. He put them on YouTube and set his email to automatically send me one for every day he was away. I sat in the Reuters office in Kabul, with a massive satellite dish in the garden. Through music, video, and technology, I felt very connected to home.

My friend Galina celebrated her birthday on May 15. Her son Matthew didn't know how many candles to put on the cake, so he stuck them randomly amongst pieces of fruit, and helped her blow them out.