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...

Meet Eron

I met Eron Anthony when we were both singing in the Inner Strength Gospel Choir at Boston University. He is finishing up his Master's in Classical Vocal Music Performance (almost positive that is not what it is officially called) and he just found out he has been accepted to New England Conservatory for the same thing. He makes choir more fun and sound better and is a great and wise friend to boot.

Meet Andy

It was awesome to be (temporarily) living with Andy again. We resurrected our late-night dance party, which you can see below.

Meet Dominick (again)

I spent spring break in Boston (quite tropical, I know), as a graduation present to my friend Dominick. It was a far better trip than I could have ever imagined. Here we are, enjoying some mediocre Chinese food and stellar conversation.

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Killip

Sorry, faithful readers, for the long delay in posts. I have many photos to post to you, and I will do so in chronological order. Here are some photographs from the Goldman-Killip wedding I shot in Atlanta the weekend before spring break (I dodged the tornado by about 15 minutes). Weddings are so great to photograph - so pretty and so much joy - and this one was no exception. The ceremony took place in Oglethorpe University's library and the weather outside couldn't have been better.