One year ago

One year ago, I began my return journey from one of the greatest experiences of my life. I was boarding a plane in South Africa, to come back to the United States after inhabiting the great country for two and a half months. Petra Tschakert, one of three professors I had during the program, is pictured below to commemorate my amazing experience I had while there.

2nd Annual Penn State Pride Parade

To end this week's Pride Week at the Pennsylvania State University, the 2nd Annual Penn State Pride Parade was held on Friday, March 25th. Participants marched from the Life Sciences building to the steps of Pattee library where a rally was held following the parades end.

Senatorial candidate Pat Toomey and Gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett hold rally at Pennsylvania State University

Defining Beauty

In today's world there are many routines people do to make themselves not only look and feel beautiful, but  to be happy with themselves. The goal of our project this week titled "Defining Beauty," was to find those routines and showcase them. Instead of doing a woman, I wanted to switch it around a bit by highlighting males to show that they too care about their "beauty."  I chose to shoot the photos at the White Building on the Penn State University Park campus where many males spend a lot of their time. 

Real Life Heroes

This week's assignment was to pick someone who we considered to be a real life hero. What better than showcasing our military, either past or present. Members of our military fought for us unselfishly so that we could live in the land of the free.Without them, we wouldn't live in the country we have today. For this assignment, I attended the "Then and Now" event at the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Pa. The two veterans showcased what it would have been like to be in the Civil War.

Flight 93 Memorial Ceremony- Shanksville, Pa

This September 11th marked the ninth anniversary since the attacks and the crash of flight 93. First ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, along with Ed Rendell spoke at the Flight 93 Memorial ceremony in Shanksville, Pa. Family members and friends of the victims, military personnel, along with the public all attended the ceremony.

The Alphabet Portrait

This weeks' assignment, "The Alphabet Portrait," presented a bit of a challenge for me. Once I was given the letter "T," I began the search to find an occupation in the State College area that began with that letter. After two failed attempts of contacting certain occupations, I hit it big with Tattoo Mark's on Beaver Ave. The employees were great and very willing to help. I had a lot of fun with this assignment and hopefully the photos speak for themselves.