This isn't a very good picture but it is, unfortunately, the last one I took. I didn't know Dean well, but I was lucky enough to meet him at a few art car events. He'd been battling cancer for several years and when we saw him in Louisville last summer he said that his doctor had told him he only had 3 to 6 months. Just short of 7 months later that's proved to be all too accurate. I'd say that it's unfair that someone who was still enjoying life so much should die. But that's a cliché. And we all know life's not fair.
Here's a photo from Charlotte 2005. More light, less shadows...