"I'm always worried about the sitter -- are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable -- and photography today is so accurate and so good that it is really so much easier just to take photographs and work from that, " he said.

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As 11 p.m. passed outside barren Gillette Stadium, a huddle of 40 or so Ravens fans gathered in the parking-lot cold to say farewell to the Baltimore team bus.

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