Pike Place Market Sign

Corner of Railroad and E. Holly St. Bellingham WA

The street kids don't care much for the Bellingham P.D.

Earth Day Dragon

Need I say more...

Not exactly sure what a dragon has to do with Earth Day, but it was a cool looking costume.

The Green Latern and Friend

Feature Story Photo

For this assignment we were asked to go out and photograph a slice of life. It is meant to be a light hearted and fun photo that shows people doing what people do. I ended up at the Bellingham senior center and photographed two wonderful ladies working on a puzzle. As a puzzle enthusiast myself I found it quite easy striking a conversation with Barbara and Donna and was able to get what I thought was a feel good photo.

Jackie Rothenberger

These are a few photos I took of Western sophomore Jackie Rothenberger, catcher for the women's Viking softball team, hitting her first collegiate grand slam against rival Montana State Billings Yellowjackets on April 14, 2011.

General News Photo

This next assignment was to go out and find a planned event where there was a general news angle.
I choose to cover an event at Western where Author/documentary filmmaker/playwright and human rights advocate Jen Marlowe gave a presentation of her lecture "Does Art Merely Reflect a Damaged World or can it Inspire Change." The presentation was very moving, and Jen was heart broken at the time. She had just recently received news that two of the individuals she had been involved with in her film documentaries had recently been killed. Unfortunately the pictures I took of her that day do not do justice to the raw emotion that she presented that day, but it was still quite powerful and moving, and a day I will remember for the remainder of my life.

Good photo, bad photo.

For this first assignment we were asked to go out and take two photos of the same subject. One good, one bad. 

This first photo is what I call my good one. This is Western senior Nico Daves, 21, working on her art project depicting ‘concept of space and linear design’. “The project is done in the style of Albrecht Durer,” Daves said. “It is a full hands on project, we built the frames ourselves. It’s a lot of work.”

I choose this photo because it depicts the frame through which Daves had to work and the object she was drawing. The background is clean, although I would have cropped the entire right side of the photo and focused closer in on her as she worked. I did not feel it necessary to show her face, simply because it was more about the concentration of the work at hand. In retrospect, I should have gotten down in front of her and photographed her face through the device she used to graph the artwork she was drawing. 

This is good photo number 2. Street performer Travis Meginniss, 28, performs for passer-by’s Wednesday April 6, on Railroad avenue in downtown Bellingham. “It’s more about me playing than getting the money,” Meginniss said. “It’s about me getting better.”

I had another photo (see below) where he plays for a grandmother and her grandchild, however, I did not have their contact info and could not submit the photo for photojournalism. I liked this photo because it clearly shows what it is Meginniss is doing and where he is playing. 

 

The bad photos from this take have been lost. They comprised of too many distractions in the Nico Daves photo, and a close up out-of-focus shot of Meginniss. 

Just always liked these photos.

These were taken for an assingnment last fall for a photojournalism class. I just always liked these photos.

Snoqualime falls

Some of the photos I took of the falls in late March.