Color Correction

Gabrielle Parish, employee at Maude V vintage clothing store on Broadway in Columbia, enjoys working halloween season. "It's busy," she says, "but I get to be creative and help peeps out." The store has for the past eight years been collecting and offering for rental a basement-sized collection of costumes during the Halloween season. Oct 30 2008.

Single Flash Assignment

My VERY Modest Begginings with Flash...

Anna Martinez's first dance at the Artisan's Wednesday Latin Dance Night.  Her partner, known as "Link", attends everyweek.  With the closing of other venues, the Artisan has just begun hosting this event this Fall.  

Selena Lian works as the sole waitress one Monday night at Formosa and Cajun, what has been Columbia's Downtown Chinese restaurant on Broadway for over thirty years.  Selena, originally from an area near Taiwaan has been in the US for two years.  

Somewhere off lake Michigan...

Chicago, the "New York of the Midwest", seen from the bean sculpture in Millenium Park. 

We passed the weenie truck on the drive up.  Somewhere in Illinois.

Downtown Milwaukee.  Someone really didn't want their bike stolen...too bad we passed by later that night and the entire sidewalk was missing (construction).  

Pidgeons in downtown Chicago.  I got several awkward stares from pedestrians.

Art institute of Chicago. Fueling up for the visit, so much to see...

The essence of a museum piece.

Herman Atkins MacNeal

So much house for such a tiny person.  Emily's Victorian house, Milwaukee.

American version of bocadillos Greyhound Station, Chicago.

Metal & Glass

Inspired by the leaves in my driveway, my goal was to create a more lyrical reflection: autumn in a glass.  

ROOT's n' BLUES

Cleanup after a weekend of Blues, Saturday night.

  

Belairs Concert, Friday night.  The audience was diggin' it.  

The Belairs, two middle-aged twins (it appeared) jammin' it like they were 20 again. 

A techie at one of the first concerts.  I liked the profile.

"Oh Shit!" Buddy Guy, the grand finale to this year's Roots'N Blues

The "Record Collector",  Friday night.  

Classmate Portrait

Erin O'Neill

After a long week creating multimedia at the Missouri Photo Workshop, Erin O'Neill takes a moment to herself. She finds her Tuesdays tiring and her schedule hectic: a heavy load of photo classes and working graphics for the Missourian; her personality is energetic and slightly frenetic. Currently a first year grad student in photojournalism sequence she has her undergraduate degree in convergence journalism. With most of her friends from undergrad gone, she finds herself starting again at the University of Missouri.

some images from the photo factory: MPW 2008

The Missouri Photo Workshop in St. James Missouri (2 hours south of Columbia on Hwy 63). Our little oasis of photojournalism in small town America.

...follow the light...our digital darkroom on the stage of the St.James community center. From image upload to printing and web publication we spent most of our days (and a good part of the nights) here.

Lunch at a local diner of Highway 68.

 Armadillos...anomalous.  "Simply Irresistible" store window Downtown St.James.  

 Peggy Peattie, San Diego Tribune, prepares a presentation for one night session. Visit her book "Down In Dixie" a photodocumentary project on the Confederate Flag in contemporary South Carolina.  Down in Dixie.