Today was funny. Word got around among my relatives that it was my birthday... it was really my brother's ( Read more... )

For an assignment in News photography, we were supposed to do a photo series: left, middle and right, as well as a feature. Today was the centennial for UF's relocation to Gainesville, so there was a ceremony at 10 a.m ( Read more... )

I love my specialized lighting photo class. Brian Kratzer, photo editor for the Sun, teaches it. He really knows a crap load about lighting. He's really passionate about images and lighting, it's inspiring ( Read more... )

Thursday I got three good clips in the Alligator. One of them was of people arguing about the current middle east situation--Lebanon invasion.


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I just got back from studio with Andrea. She showed me around. I was supposed to shoot with her assisting me, but she has to fly to Chicago tomorrow for a photo story for class... it was last minute. It's cool though, I know she had to do it because that was possibly her only chance to get good photos of these migrant workers protesting ( Read more... )

This happened a few days ago. I was sort of unable to take pictures of this incident because I felt like I was intruding somehow... Here's briefly what happened last Thursday ( Read more... )

In ENG 1131 (English class with theories on new ways of thinking about new media) my teaher made some comments that I could not help but smirk about. He was talking about something called the "middle voice." He said it was like how information relates to personal experience ( Read more... )

I got my name in the Gainesville Sun Campus Edition Tuesday. I called Monday afternoon to tell them about the Asian American student rally to show the campus that our vote does count. The plan was to get a crowd started and then to proceed to the voting polls. I just wanted some reporter to possibly cover the event. Instead she used me as a source ( Read more... )

I shot Abraham Lincoln today... or at least his impersonator, Lew Welge, an education graduate student. It will probably be in the Alligator tomorrow. He read excerpts from his autobiography and encouraged students to vote in the student government election. He was about 6'8" while the real Lincoln was 6'4". It was a funny site. He has had the ( Read more... )

I am eating way too many cookies. I just cannot stop eating them. If only I could figure out a way to get paid to eat cookies. Maybe a cookie taste tester.