Finding fabulous features

I got a call from Rob, the photo editor, today at around 6:00. He had shot a feature photo earlier in the day, but we needed one or two more. I wasn't busy, so I said I'd walk around campus and see what I could find. We've done this four or five times so far (once because there actually wasn't anything artwise for the front page and the other times just to shoot stuff), and it's a lot harder than it sounds. You really have to keep your eye out for interesting things that are going on, or figure out how to make mundane things look interesting.

Anyway, I had been walking around for about 30 min and hadn't really found anything. Then I came across a group of guys playing football. Not the most interesting thing, but I shot it just so that I would have something to fall back on. Although I was pretty sure they wouldn't use since the first home football game is tomorrow night.

So I left those guys and headed over to Lewellen Pool. As I was walking through the hall, I saw outisde the window there was a group of three students who were looking and feeling trees and were taking down notes. Hmmm.... that could be interesting, so I went to see what they were up to.

Turns out they are 3rd year landscape architecture students. They are in a class called -- get this -- Plants. By the end of the semester they have to be able to identify over 200 types of plants around campus! The girl, Jessica Day, said "It's very tedious," to which Dominic Angotti added, "I've heard it's one of the hardest classes on campus."

Currently listening to Basil Poledouris's score to "For the Love of the Game".

Reconsidering

After going through my entire shoot with my Daily News editor, I have to agree with him that this shot was the strongest of the bunch. Since he's pretty tough on me (he could definitely be tougher though), I've already learned quite a bit since being here. I'm looking forward to taking my photography to the next level, out of the relm of the strait foward shot that I'm used to. I'm looking foward to developing my own eye and see this world differenly. Unfortunatley, I did not get these guy's names because I didn't think at the time it was a good photo. I now know that I need to get the name of *just about* everybody that I shoot.

I've got the feeling that I'm going to learn a lot this year, and I sure as hell can't wait!

Saturday Morning

It's not often that I get up at 7:30 on a Saturday morning, but that's exactly what I did today. I had a volleyball game to shoot at 10:00. Granted, I didn't really have to get up anywhere near that early to get there on time, but I have a routine in the morning that involves showering, eating, checking email and just checking a few other things online, so that all had to be done before heading out.

Anyway, I was at the volleyball game form 1.5-2 hours and on my way back to edit them, I passed a water/mud/carnival type event being put on by the Theta Chi fraternatity, so I had to stop by for some photos. It turns out that they were putting on this event to help raise money for Riley Children's Hospital.

Currently listening to: Mark Isham's score to "Life as a House".

Anyway, enough with words, here are some pictures.