Portrait of an Artist

This past week I had the opportunity to photograph Ian Wilder. Wilder, a Louisville Junior, is a Music Education major at WKU and plays lead trumpet in the WKU Jazz Ensemble. He has been playing trumpet since the 4th grade and is seen in some of these images with a beaten up old trumpet. The story is that he has had this horn since he started playing and has used in for marching band in high school and one day just decided he didn't want to play it any longer so he tried to disfigure it as much as possible. Ian has been a good friend of mine over the past few years of college and I'm glad he put up with my requests during this shoot, thanks man. Enjoy.

Portrait of an athlete

Hello. I thought I would update you all on the last few weeks of work. Before Spring Break, 3 weeks ago i shot this portrait of Justin Cave. Cave is a Freshmen here a WKU and will be riding across America this summer with his fraternity FIJI to raise money for Alzheimer's research. More to come on the FIJI bikers. Might even do a portrait series on all of them, who knows. Hope you enjoy.

Parents

In this lighting class I'm taking we have had some other assignments other than taking a picture of a pepper but I don't really like anything i shot for those other assignments. This past week though we had the opportunity to photograph a parent. I immediately thought of a family who i did a story on about a year ago. Allison is the youngest daughter of two at age 15 and has high frequency autism and she is not your average 15 year old girl in more ways than one. Her and her mom, Cari, are both training in shaolin kung fu and are both pretty good at it. Interesting right? Here is a portrait i took Wednesday of the two of them in Allison's room. Its a complex photograph that i think says a lot about both the relationship between mother and daughter and the unique passions that Allison has. Hope you enjoy it.

Lighting Pepper

I am currently taking a lighting course this semester and our first two assignments were meant to familiarize us with lighting and how it affects a subject. Since peppers don't have the ability to communicate and no possible way of having a schedule that doesn't work with mine they were the best place to start studying light. Enjoy.

Troy Basketball Game

WKU hosted the Troy Trojans and pulled of an 87-69 victory February 6. Enjoy the images.

Jersey Retired

Former Laddy Topper mens assistant coach Paul Sanderford had his jersey retired on the 6th of February at halftime of the Lady Toppers vs Troy game. The beloved coach received a standing ovation as he and his family came to center court to see the unveiling of his jersey hanging from the rafters.

Snow-pocalypse 2010

Bowling Green experienced the largest accumulated snowfall since the mid 90's and this is what happens...