If you didn’t already know, I’ve accepted an internship at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Here are a few images from my first couple of weeks:
Tornado Clean Up
(From left) Dustin Lange (14), Ryan Recker (15) and Stefon Brandt (15), all students at Alburnett High School, help clean up a tornado’s aftermath in Alburnett on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. A tornado struck the area on Sunday, causing no injuries, but downing large trees and destroying at least three large campers. Two Alburnett High School teachers, Linda Franck and Vicki Meadows, organized the student clean because many students were affected by the storm.
Josh Langhoff (16), Ryan Young (16), and Sam MacDonald (13), all students at Alburnett High School, help clean up a tornado’s aftermath in Alburnett on Tuesday, April 28, 2009.
Same-Sex Marriage
Patty Glass (left) and Rita Wall embrace one another while waiting for marriage license paperwork to be filed at the County recorder office located in Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids on Monday, April 27, 2009. The couple has been together for almost one year. Said Wall, “I’m so proud to be an Iowan today.” Monday marked the first day that same-sex couples could fill out a marriage license application in the state of Iowa.
Hawkeye Downs
(From left) Jarrett Dulin (7), Taylor Christiansan (6) and Mckenna Dulin (8) “race” toy cars in the grandstand at Hawkeye Downs Speedway in Cedar Rapids on Friday, May 1, 2009. There were many children in attendance as Friday marked Kirkwood Kids night.
Announced last night by NPPA:
Photojournalist and NPPA member Pete Souza has accepted the position of official White House photographer for President-elect Barack Obama, he told News Photographer magazine tonight.”
Souza met then senator Barack Obama back in 2005 while covering his first day in the U.S. Senate for The Chicago Tribune. Souza documented the freshman senator’s [...]
Happy New Year to all! 2008 was filled with a fantastic trip to India, a good internship at The Elkhart Truth, a look into an historic political season, and graduation. Here’s hoping everyone has a good 2009.
Teagan and Blake Mast fidget during the singing of the National Anthem Friday July 25, 2008 on the Elkhart [...]
After nearly 1 year from my India trip, I’ve finally compiled the photos into a wedding story. You might have seen some of these photos before, but now they’re all presented together in a story.
Traditionally, Indian weddings are elaborate celebrations filled with rituals and customs dating back thousands of years. Weddings are usually between arranged [...]
In the past couple of days, there have been 3 major announcements in the newspaper industry.
Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, is laying off 10% of the company.
The Tribune Company (owners of such papers as The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune) is undergoing “sharp cutbacks,” by “printing fewer papers and employing fewer [...]
Students played an important roll in Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. Students, residents, paid employees and volunteers alike bonded together to show support for their candidate. Obama’s campaign harnessed the youth vote in a way that had never been done before. According to College News:
The youth, a notoriously unpredictable constituency in voter turnout, dashed to [...]
So it’s finals week. Breaking from studying for my (last ever) finals and editing my independent study, I’m bringing you a video produced last spring quarter here at OU for a video class. This was a collaboration with another photojournalism student, Simon Brubaker. The edit from my independent study covering the election is coming soon. [...]
