Meet the classmates...

Two weeks left in the semester...it's definitely crunch time. I've got roughly half a billion photos for the blog, but most of them will have to wait until the end of the semester. The choir project is nearing completion and, since it's due next Monday, it will be posted on here around then. So stay tuned.

Tonight, some of my fellow grad school chums got together at Shakespeare's Pizza to celebrate Kelly's birthday (in the first picture) and simultaneously escape and complain about our current sources of stress. It was a good time. And the light wasn't bad, either.

Happy Birthday, Kelly!


I finally found friends who like black olive pizza as much as I do.


Clare enjoys not working on her Media Law paper.


This is C.J. She gave me all her unwanted black olives.


This is Courtney. She ate her olives, but we're still friends.


"Girl with Pearl Earring" (aka Katie)


Val and I have the same class schedule. "I plan on daily mental breakdowns," Val said about the end of the semester.


Julie, like everyone else at the table, said my photographing made her feel awkward.


So I tried to make nice by blocking the glare from her eyes, but my arm got tired and I wanted to eat pizza. But I tried.


The birthday girl shoots back:

Meet ...another editing option!

For anyone who would like to look at the larger body of work for this gospel choir project and would like to offer comments and critiques and maybe even some editing suggestions, I've created one big gallery for everything (not EVERYthing, but a lot more than a blog can handle). You can find it here:

picasaweb.google.com/phoebe.sexton/LBCGospelChoirEditsKindOf?authkey=iq5W2yk8z1U

Thank you for looking and for your input!

Meet my indecisiveness...(help!)

Here's the last big "edit" of LBC Gospel Choir photographs. These photos are from a recent rehearsal, a trip to a gospel choir workshop in Illinois and from a rally against the movement to ban Affirmative Action in Missouri here at Mizzou. I couldn't edit them down any further, so I'm putting it all here and asking you to throw in your two cents. As always, thanks for looking!

More info about the project: I'm pretty much done with photographing - I only have one or two more ideas I'm going to shoot. I'm now in the interviewing/sound editing stage. I want to do a 10-ish picture edit for layout/portfolio, plus a looser edit for a multimedia piece. The input I seek here is meant mostly for the tighter layout edit. What are your thoughts/reactions/etc. etc. etc.?

**NOTE** These are not the only photos from this project, only the most recent. Scroll through older posts to find more LBC-related photos.

Meet the 2007 World Champions

In honor of Opening Day at Fenway Park, here are some memorable images from my 2007 tenure with the Boston Red Sox.

I am excited that baseball is back in the Bean, but am equally excited that I am here studying. One season was enough for me (see last photo)!

Inside the Green Monster


Detail shot of a ball mark on the Green Monster


Red Sox Front Office Softball Team vs. Pawtucket Red Sox (AAA affiliate) Front Office (first road victory in Red Sox history)


Pedroia the Destroya


Champions!


Trophy by Tiffany


Toehold in Sanity (and not one smidge more) - photo by Rhona Wise

Meet some new views of the LBC Choir

Here are some of the better shots from my latest time with the choir. With Daylight Savings Time doing whatever it did (starting? stopping? Springing forward...), the light in the room is dramatically different and not really to my advantage. I have a lot of squinty singers (meaning, I mostly collected audio until the sun set behind a building), but I think I got a few interesting shots. Thanks for looking!

Meet BU's Women's Lacrosse Team

When I was back in Boston, I shot the women's lacrosse team during an afternoon game on Nickerson Field against nemesis Boston College. I knew the light would be challenging, but worth it. The setting sun manages to poke through two dorms and cast a very pretty shaft of light across the field. This light then proceeds to dance around the pitch for the entire game. It's fun. The nice thing, though, is that the new dorm on the other side of the field acts as a giant reflector - it's practically a studio setup out there (see second image).

Shot rings out in the Memphis sky

Today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He would have been 79.

Senior year at BU, I spent part of my spring break in Atlanta to check out the various historical sites related to my favorite man in history. Here are two shots from that trip, one of his grave and one from inside Ebenezer Baptist church, where King preached at various points in his life.





(Photographer's note: these images have been edited for greater contrast and saturation, and the vignette effect has been added to the top image.)

Meet Chris

Chris, a long-time friend whom I met in my (our) early days at the Daily Free Press, and I enjoyed some fabulous cookies and a hearty two hours of conversation Friday afternoon. He was the first person I photographed with my brand new 50mm 1.4 lens (the second image; the first is a 16-35mm 2.8), which I replaced after discovering that the two times I knocked my original lens off my desk while with the Sox were not, in fact, beneficial to the equipment's well-being.

Meet Sarah & Kal

I visited Boston University's Office of Photo Services, where I worked all four years as a work study student. I worked as just about everything one could be there: photographer, general office assistant, master darkroom printer (we're talking 35mm, 2 1/4, 4x5, etc), dip & dunk film tech (record: 18 rolls of mixed sizes in a 4-hour shift, from canisters to contact sheets), digital printer, office DJ, studio guinea pig, friend of Rick. (I was also known, on occasion, to take naps on the floor of the darkroom.) Here are Sarah (long-time photographer phriend) and Kal (BU legend, slightly crazy (in the good way)) and some trademark BUPS studio shenanigans. (Photographer's note: I was not plugged into the strobes.)

Meet Tyler

When we get together for coffee (which has been twice, so far), it feels like Tyler Sit and I have known each other for all of time. Words simply can't do justice to our friendship. But, these pictures are nice...