Ukraine Adpotion

Ruslan Marchenko, a 14-year-old orphan from Ukraine, is spending three weeks with the Milne family through a program sponsored by the Save a Child Foundation, a nonprofit that matches children with prospective adoptive families.

5A Football

This was supposedly a play-off game, but you wouldn't know it from Layton's 42-7 beating of Spanish Fork. Layton dominated the entire game starting with their 69-yard touchdown on the second play of the game. Layton racked up 339 yards of offense in the first half alone. The Lancers were relentless and didn't replace their starters until the final five minutes of the game, allowin Spanish Fork to score their only touchdown, narrowly escaping an embarrassing shut-out.

Hannah Montana

Larry Rougle

Oct. 23rd, Larry Rougle, a 25-year-old U.S. Army sniper from Utah, was shot in the stomach and killed in Afghanistan's volatile Kunar Province. He was on his 6th tour of duty.


His family (from left) David, brother, Nancy, mom, Fernando Lopez, uncle, and Ismiel, dad, talk about Larry at their home in West Valley.

You can read The Tribune's story HERE

4A & 5A State Soccer Championships

The girl's state soccer championships were held last Saturday at Juan Diego High School. It was 35 degrees and raining, but there were a few good pictures to be made.

5A
Alta 3 | Lone Peak 0

4A
Orem 4 | Highland 0

Wasatch Mountains

Only three weeks until the ski season commences...

Touchdown

Alta 35 | Jordan 12

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Day 4

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Day 3

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It's been three years since I was a student on the navy team at Eddie Adams. I remember the cold and rainy weather we had at Barnstorm XVII, but what I remember most is being inspired and challenged to take my photography to a new level and the friendships that were made with other students and faculty members.

I returned this past year for the 20th workshop as a member of the Black team. There were about 65 members of the black team who did all the behind the scenes work ranging from transportation, security, hospitality, A/V, digital work flow, and cooking. I was on the security team along with Ashley Franscell, Thomas Witte, Josh Ritchie and Carrie Niland. We were basically responsible for directing traffic when the students were loading/unloading the buses, parking cars in a muddy lot on the farm and making sure no disgruntled students who were rejected tried to crash the workshop.

Because of this, my workshop experience was very different than as a student. Although I did not get to see many of the faculty presentations, as a black team member I was able spend time and talk with many of the speakers and vip's inside of Eddie's house.

On of the highlights of the week was spending time with Bill Eppridge and hearing him talk about his project on heroin addicts in Needle Park. This was the first time he had publicly shown and discussed this body of work since it was photographed in the 60's. It is truly inspirational work and is only a fraction of Bill's amazing photographic archive.

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BYU v Vegas

I drove down to Vegas last weekend to photograph the BYU v UNLV football game. It was a close game at the half with BYU leading 7-6. As luck would have it, while I was editing and transmitting my photos on deadline during the third quarter, BYU scored two more touchdowns and increased their lead. I made it down for the last seven minutes of the third quarter and the 4th quarter. The final score was 24-14. Even though I missed some of the key moments of the game, I am still happy with some of my pictures -- plus I won $11.50 playing blackjack at the Trop.

Girl's 5A Soccer

Here are some shots from the Girl's 5A Soccer state tournament. I love photographing state championships because the action and emotion is always kicked up a few notches. This game was no exception. Layton played Brighton and was the first team to score in the first half. During the second half, Brighton's Myriah Stockman scored two goals to advance the Bengals to the next round of the tournament. **Thanks M for the crop suggestion on pic #3**

Pumpkin Slide

Here is a quick feature from a local corn maze. When I got there, there was only 10 minutes of good light left. Luckily these kids were still playing on the "mountain slide."

Seven Deadly Sins

My friend and Mizzou grad student Ben Reed just posted an essay he did on the "Seven Deadly Sins." I think this is a great idea for a project and brilliantly shot.

"Established by Pope Gregory the Great in the sixth century, the seven deadly sins were presented as guidelines for the Catholic faithful in order to avoid corruption of the soul and damnation after death. These images depict a modern interpretation of the sins while incorporating a color palate and mood similar to the Renaissance artists who illustrated them centuries ago."



Check out the entire essay HERE or by clicking on the above picture.

Lasik

Last Wednesday, I documented Ashley as she had Lasik surgery. To read about her experience, click on the following link:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/239099/

Rainy Day

SLC, UT--9/29/07--2:11:35 PM--
As seen through the raindrops of a car window, a woman walks past the 'SLC Pepper' mural on 400 West.