Mom I updated my blog just for you.

My class had an environmental portrait assignment and Sean Cannon, a sophomore aviation major, was nice enough to drive to the Gordon K. Bush airport with me to pose in the plane he flies during class. It was definitely interesting trying to pose someone. I wasn't really sure what to do, but Sean was awesome about it and just explained what everything in the plane was while I snapped away. I tried to pretend I knew what he was talking about. This guy knows what he's doing.

If I weren't a photojournalist

Today I photographed a story for The Post on the Senior Dance Concert in Putnam Hall. It really made me miss Class Act Dance Studio in the small town of Clyde, Ohio. Then I got sad because I'm not living in Lincoln Hall next year and they are going to have a dance studio in there. Guess I'll just have to keep sneaking into the combative room at Ping when no one is around...

Ripley's Marvelous Mirror Maze

I was rummaging through my photos from spring break and stumbled upon this happy memory. My family and I went to Gatlinburg, Tennessee and went into the new mirror maze that Ripley's built there. I gotta say, their museum is alright and their moving theater sucks but their aquarium and mirror maze are awesome. The maze was pretty hardcore. They even made us wear gloves so that we wouldn't smudge up the mirrors. My little sisters and my dad and I were so a-MAZE-d by the thing that we ran around in there until we got dizzy and felt sick. I kinda get lost just looking at the photos. I'm in one of them.

Alpha Gamma Delta Centennial Celebration

A couple weeks ago our photojournalism assignment was event coverage. Lucky for me, the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority was celebrating its centennial and they invited every Alpha Gam alumnae (thank you precision language) to join them in celebrating for the weekend of April 18, 2008. They had a dinner on Saturday where they handed out awards and did an enormous amount of speeches, so half the time I just hung out in the kitchen, shooting the last of the dinner preparations so I wouldn't fall asleep like some of the alumnae's husbands were doing. The group photo that kicked off the night was the most interesting part of the whole thing. I am very glad that I made it over to South Green on time because I would have just ended up with podium and food pictures. The alumnae were instructed to wear green and yellow for the picture, but they seemed to not follow those directions very well because only a handful really did. The collegiates on the other hand, looked beautiful in their red dresses.

The weather is putting me in the best mood ever

...especially when there are little kids and moon bounce castles to take pictures of. Last week my photojournalism class assignment was emotion. I was super stressed out because I thought I wasn't going to get anything I liked, once again. But when I saw the top of a bouncy castle peeking over the fence at Wren Stadium, I felt more than relieved. I had way too much fun with 4 year old Zach Kessler, and other kiddies who were bored with the baseball game.

Yesterday was my birthday and it was raw and awesome. Or should I say, Rawesome?!

So blogging is cool...

Not sure what to say for my first post except that I am a freshman at Ohio University, where I am majoring in photojournalism. The first thing I am posting is my soundslides from my long term project for my vico 222 class during winter quarter. My project was on Dan Fester, a 19-year-old musician hoping to get into Berklee School of Music in Boston. I went to high school with Dan and he has changed so much since our days in Monroeville and it is amazing to see how he has changed. I have a feeling that he is going to do great things.

Click here for it cause I don't know how to put a soundslides on here...


yay for first blog post.