South Padre Island

In memory of J. Robert Buckley.

2009 Main Street Arts Festival in Fort Worth

TIPA Sports Live Contest

Last week the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association held its 100th annual conference in Dallas. I participated in the sports live contest that took place at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington. Instead of a "real" sports competition, we were given an small area to shoot an under construction arena. I won 2nd place for the photo above. I decided to turn in something that I knew nobody else would have shot and it worked out pretty well.

Soundslides Thus Far

Day in the Life: Anthony Vereen
http://www.theshorthorn.com/static/soundslides/2008/Fall/AnthonyVereen/index.html
Battle of the Brains
http://www.theshorthorn.com/static/soundslides/2008/Fall/BattleoftheBrains/index.html
After Dark in the Park
http://www.theshorthorn.com/static/soundslides/2008/Fall/AfterDark/index.html

Oozeball 2008

UTA Dance Ensemble Auditions 2009

Holi Festival at UTA

4th Annual Lipscomb Hall Whoa-Man Pageant

Recent Wild Art

Top Model

Intermediate Photography at UTA

So far in my Int. Photo class at UTA we have done a still life or staged project and a masking assignment. For still life, used action figures to create cinematic action scenes that could be from movies or TV shows. The trick was to create a sense of larger scale when in reality the scenes are on the scale of a 6 inch action figure. For the masking project, I used cutouts of eyes and a mouth to create portraits of figures that we would never see in reality. Figures that have lost sight and speech or have had their eyes or mouth tansplanted to another part of the body. A sense of metaphorical masking can also be seen if you look deeper past the straight forward imagery.

Lupe Fiasco in Concert at UTA

Grammy winning hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco recently performed in concert to a crowd of over 1,900 fans at UTA with Kardinal Offishall and Solitar as the opening act. Fiasco performed many of his songs from his hit albums "Food & Liquor" and "The Cool", which sold over 500,000 copies in the U.S. He has won four Grammy awards including his most recent in 2008, Best Urban/Alternative Performance, for his song "Daydreamin'" featuring Jill Scott.

Intro to Art

Now that school has started im doing more journalism and trying my hand at some art photography. Since my niche is not anywhere close to art then I hope my skills will be developing over the course of this semester. Here are some examples of some "art" that I took before school started.

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Recently I went on a photo scavenger hunt with my uncle for his camera club. We went to a few small towns outside of the DFW area including Glen Rose, Iredell, and Miridian. Here are some images from the trip and one of a Cicada that I found in my backyard just before I left.