Spring News

Ok I was horrible about doing posts the last semester but it was a hard semester with the fresh start of summer I want to take a quick look back at what was my spring in news photos. The following are the photos my spring had to offer.

A herd of deer came down to campus.

Lance Armstrong and John Huntsman visited nurses and patients at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Larry Anderson, nighttime custodian in the OSH building.

Matt Steele, Skating on the fountain.

Empty racks in the Marriott Library.

I worked on this photo illustration for a story about car burglaries at the U. people were smashing the windows and taking radios out of cars by the residents halls I think so I did this but the story keep getting pushed back more and more until the semester was over so it never ran. I still like it so I will post it hear.

(The tattoo is real. I photoshoped out the tattoo for the paper but I like it so I left it in for my blog.)

27 photos later

For Ana's birthday we are planning on taking a crony fun bus to Wendover. We were planning this Sunday night well Monday morning a Facebook group got started by Lana and we needed a photo for it well 27 photos later I had one!

The cut-outs are a little rough but I think it works well it was a lot of fun.

Super Tuesday!!! (and Monday)

WOW A TIMLEY POST!!! This week was Super Tuesday and Utah was one of the states voting well this lead to so exciting and not so exciting political shoots.

It all got stated on Monday when Michelle Obama visited to give a speech for her husband. I got some typical speaker shots of her but one point she worked the crowd into a frenzy, then when she was done she worked the crowd and gave her supporters hugs.

Those were my best shots my favorite shot was in the beginning when a specter took a picture of Obama their flash gave her a nice halo but my picture was out of focus. DAMN!
On Super Tuesday my day was filled with politics. It started at the capital where I was going to shoot the debate over HB241 that would strip instate tuition from undocumented students. This was my first time seeing the state House in action. I don’t know why it surprised me but they were boring as shit! Until I started to watch closer they were just as bored as I was!

This lady was playing with her lip gloss

This guy was stretching

This guy was my favorite

Once HB241 came up they said,
Let’s do it later.
Any Objections?
NO
OK we will put off work after all we only got a 3 hour lunch.

Any way after going to the office I had to go back up to the capital to shoot protesters of HB241. It was going awful the sun was so low I had hard shadows or sun flare and with the cold they huddled together making it damn near imposable to get a good shot.
At the end they made a few laps around the fountain witch saved my ass I got this shot that I felt was my best until neither guy would give me their name.
So we used this one with a "group" of students.
To wrap up Super Tuesday I shot the results party at the Hinckley Institute. It was going really shitty just people watching CNN.

Then I started to notice that each time the Utah results came up these guys in the front started to cheer so I got their names and waited for Utah to come up again.
My favorite results shots were reminded me of the shots I got earlier at the Utah House.

Best speaker ever!!!

Well in typical fashion I was late on the post for Carnell West only problem this time was that it was for class credit I’m taking blogging as a social force and we got extra credit to go and write a blog about it but it was due a week after the speech oh well. I went to take pictures just for my blog Anna was doing it for the Crony I’m glad I went because it was one of the best speaker shots ever he was funny and his gestures made some good pictures.

In addition to his physical speaking style he had an entering speech that included the gangster lifestyle that many young black men try to imitate. When he was talking about this he reached in his jacket parented to pull out a gun and shoot someone this was one of my favorite pictures.

Well I hope that as this blogging class goes on I will learn to make my posts on time or not.

Fun Times

As with all my post I am lazy and never get them done as quickly as I hope to so this was meant to be a year/semester in review then it was going to be a look back once the new semester started now it is just me doing a post I should of done a long time ago I still like and I hope it was worth the wait.

Last Semester I started to carry my camera around with me everywhere because I took a photojournalism class from Jim and he always said we never know when news will happen so we had to have our cameras with us all the time well I don’t know how much news I captured from carrying my camera around with me but I did get a lot of other shit that I saved just for a post like this.

Let me start with the Crony there are so many good moments I captured there.

Cody and the trashing of Ashley’s office A view of Lennie though a hole in a bowl Crazy fan Andy in the middle of a office hockey game Piper asleep, (hockey takes a lot out of him) Bowling champion Tony! Lana stocking me in the photo room Ana interviewing a drunken bum found on campus

There was a few times that one photo would not do such as the time me and Ana were waiting in OSH for the police to start their training. What can two people do in a building late at night waiting for the police to show up? A lot.

Read the Times

Self explanatory

When she stole my camera we took shots at each other as if we were in a shootout

This is all about the one photographer I worked with the most so I have the most photos of him. It is always good times with Jarad.

In Colorado

Shooting me

Shooting a bunny

Lost in the woods

Dominating the assignments

Pretending like he is an important person

Who the fuck knows why he did this

In addition to my work at the paper I was at the Sports Imaging Office as well where we had some good time, but when we start to have to much fun Ken makes sure to put a stop to it after all it is a business and he runs a tight ship. If we happen to get out of line Ken brings in his enforcer Bobby!
I got some rare photos of Bobby in action when Michael and Chris got out of hand

Michael

Chris

After witnessing Bobby in action Baby got right back to work.

That about does it for the good times last fall. The spring has a lot to live up to.