IPPA Weekend

It was a great weekend- we hosted the Illinois Press Photographers Association annual conference and clip contest at the Illini Media Company building in Champaign. So many amazing photographers were there and I learned so much just from hanging out all weekend.

I got 2 honorable mentions in the Student Best of Photojournalism contest- one for news and one for pictorial.

Here are those pictures...



Andrew Stoker, a American study abroad student, watches the sunset from a vantage point on the Hump Ridge track near the south coast of New Zealand's South Island on September 15, 2007.



Katie Elliott, a senior at Centennial High School, hugs her sister Elizabeth Elliott, freshman in Engineering, on the University of Illinois quad during a candlelight vigil on Wednesday night, April 18, 2007 in remembrance of the students slain in the Virginia Tech shootings. Elizabeth was a friend of former Centennial High School student, Austin Cloyd, who was killed during the shooting.

Rugby Women

So I went to the Women's Rugby team practice this afternoon. I'm going to try and follow them for at least the month of April- practice and home games. It should make a pretty cool audio slideshow, story, and photo story package when all is said and done.

One of my neighbors

Spring Break

So pretty much all my spring break plans fell through. I ended up going to Minnesota for a few days with some friends but other than that basically just sat around the house. Here are a few shots from my cousin Addison's 3rd birthday party.

Scott AFB

Trinity Parker and Troy Rudloff, both 9, bowl together at a family bowling night at Scott Air Force Base in O'Fallon, Ill. Organized bowling nights are a common activity for family members of deployed soldiers living on base.

I went to Scott Air Force Base last weekend with some other students working on the Department of Journalism's "The War Comes Home" project. I mostly shot video when we were allowed to shoot, which was pretty much never, but here is an interesting image from the family bowling night we went to. We did interviews with people at the bowling alley and there were some pretty compelling stories.