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In many respects, Jeremy is your average five-year-old New Yorker. He's got two outgoing parents, he loves the carousel at the zoo, and he has a burgeoning career in acting. But unlike most young Manhattanites, Jeremy has also grinned and posed with the masters. Everyone from Bill Clinton to P. Diddy has stood for a photo with the blond little boy.

Since Jeremy was very young, his father Michael has snapped Jeremy's photo with a glittering roster of actors, athletes, musicians, artists, politicians, children's book authors, and Watergate masterminds. The proud papa has uploaded the photos to their web site, Who Is That With Jeremy?, and the site has zipped around the world. Michael doesn't keep track anymore, but two years ago he'd logged 60,000 visitors.

We reviewed the site in 2004 and it made our list of the best Picks of the year. Now, we check in with Michael about what got him started, what Jeremy thinks of all this starry action, and who, if anyone, has refused to pose...

Have you always collected celebrity pictures—or is that something Jeremy brought out in you?

While I was an actor when I was younger, the site was born by accident. I was at the opening of an electronics store with Jeremy when he was maybe 5 or 6 month old and the Barber brothers, Tiki and Ronde, were signing mini football helmets for charity.

I bought one and took a picture of Jeremy in his car seat between them. When it was developed… I sent it around to friends with the subject line "Who is that with Jeremy?" A month or so later, we went to a signing of a new book by Jamie Lee Curtis. While she was holding the book, a photographer asked her to pose with a child. I was nearby so I handed Jeremy to her and the picture ended up in the paper (I took one as well). I sent that around with the same subject line and a friend told me that I should do a web site.

I purchased the name "who is that with jeremy" and built a small site. I began to look for signings and people on the street and quickly had 20 or 30 shots. After a year we had about 1,000 hits from friends and family, but then we got picked up by Yahoo! Picks and suddenly the number jumped to about 15,000. We were asked to be on CNN Headline News and several other news outlets picked up the story. After that, searching for shots became a real hobby.  Read the full profile...

Everybody seems to have a shoebox or two full of family snapshots. But Nicholas Osborn has about 100,000 photos in his apartment. And they're not even of his own relatives. For the past decade, Nick has collected vintage photos from flea markets and eBay, and he shares around 4,000 of his pre-1980s snaps on his web site, Square America, which we reviewed in 2005.

"I really wanted to collect fine art photography," Nick admits, "but couldn't afford it so snapshots seemed like a cheap, fun alternative." And these photos soon charmed him in their own right:" I realized just how amazing some of the photographs I was finding were—totally different from but every bit as interesting as anything you'd see hanging in a gallery."

The web site started simply as a way to organize this growing collection, especially as Nick saw themes developing. "I certainly never set out to collect photos of people sleeping," he notes, "but at some point I realized that I had over a hundred of them, and the site was a great excuse for me to get them all together in one place and assess what I have." Read the full profile...

All the Presidents Men
Pissing in the Snow
With No Fear of Failure

Not that this is all just fun and games. The Athenaeum Arts and Music Library in La Jolla, C.A. opened their stacks to our sort-happy shutterbug. And in 2004, the Strindberg Museum allowed her to play with the Swedish writer's texts. We loved the images of the sorted Scandinavian spines, but our hearts belong with the dash of humor that comes with the occasional self-help book:

Hamlet
What's Eating You?
Hey, Man! Open Up and Live!