Photo Story - Hood River Turkey Trot

Runners register for the 2013 Hood River Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. The event was held at the  Mark O Hatfield Trailhead in Hood River, OR.  Funds raised from the event were raised for the local Mosier Community School. 

It's a beautiful but brisk Thursday morning as the runners prepare for the children's run. There are three different runs in the event, a 3k, 5k, and 12k. The route begins at  the Mosier Twin Trailheads. 

Viewers look on as Benjamin wins the children's race and later received a blue ribbon.

"The Turkey" was seen all around the race area and was noticed by many on lookers. She was a crowd favorite and had many photos taken of her.

Participants were split up into multiple age categories. The first three across the line in each race received either a blue, red, or white ribbon; representing first, second, and third place.

Sports Shots

Courtyard "Two Flushers" flag football team member, Stephanie Tollbom, dives on fans Kylie Thalofer, Cassie Dye, and Natawsha Compton. The fans came to support the team during their play off qualifying foot ball game.

"Two Flushers" team mates Corinne Carver, Tyler Roberts, Jennifer Wolf, Kimmie Olsen, and Braden Anderton get set on the line during an intra mural flag football game. The team won the game and qualified for the OSU Flag Football IM League-A playoffs.

Connor Kirkpatrick glides through the Sigma Pi defense with help from team mate Sam Crawford during an intra mural flag football game. Kirkpatrick and Crawford play for The Yard, an all men flag football team. This victory led The Yard to an undefeated season of 5-0 in the intra mural B-League.

Eliot Porter Photojournalist Blog Post

Eliot Porter

Eliot Porter was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1901 to a high-middle class family. Porter was the second eldest of 5 siblings. Porter was given his first camera in 1911 and immediately began shooting photos of nature and animals. For college Porter enrolled into Harvard and earned his Bachelor of Science degree (1923) and his medical degree (1929). After graduation Porter became a biochemical researcher at Harvard and continued there until he was introduced to Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams in the mid 1930’s. Adams and Stieglitz helped him get back into his hobby of photography and in 1930 Stieglitz offered to show some of his black and white photos at his New York City gallery - An American Place.

The show portrayed Porter as a main photographer. This helped him make a decision to quit his job at the university and begin his occupation as a full time photographer. After making the jump from science to photography, Porter also made the jump from black and white style photography to color so he could accurately portrait his nature shots even more. This was a big deal in the 1930’s because color photography was coming into the photography scene and was new to everyone. Porter’s style of coloring photos was through dye transfer colored prints. He enjoyed it because you can control the exact hues and contrast of the final print while developing richly colored prints. In 1962, Porter was published in the Sierra Club’s “In Wilderness Is the Preservation of the World” which boosted his photos further into popularity. Throughout his photography career, Porter traveled to multiple and various locations in places such as Mexico, Greece, Baja, Galapagos islands, Appalachians, Turkey, Africa, Iceland, Antarctica, China, and Iceland. Porter aspired to make more books of photos from places far away with unusual locations.

Porter had magnified his love of nature photography through his passion and interest in the environment and science. In 1946, he settled in his permanent home out side of Santa Fe. Eliot Porter lived until 1990, he died months before his 90th birthday.

Of the many photos that Eliot Porter took, this would be his "claim to fame". As the cover of his wildly popular book "In Wilderness"  this is one of his more well known photographs. 

Eliot Porter also took black and white portraits of his family. Here his son is seen holding a snake.

Free Assignment - Cassie Stoddard Portrait

Cassandra "Cassie" Stoddard

Oregon State sophomore, Cassandra Stoddard, has been a volunteer Client-Advocate at Options Pregnancy Resource Center for about one year. Options provides counseling and free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds for women with an unexpected pregnancy.

Weather photos,LBCC 11/6

My Neighborhood

Working at the local Dairy Queen runs in the family. Derek Nielsen is the manager of the Hood River Dairy Queen while his daughter, Kasia Nielsen, has worked as an employee for about 3 years. To do something different, the pair show off their fun side and portrays a humerous pose.

Linda Tolbert checks the news while standing in front of the Underwood Post Office with her dog Khloe. Tolbert has lived in Underwood for about 25 years. The Post Office use to double as the Underwood Fire Dept. and Post Office before the Fire Department moved across the street in their own facility a few years ago.

The Hood River bridge and port area view from the Underwood look out. The look out did not exist until about 2006 when a forest fire began and burned down the trees that blocked the view. Underwood,WA is located across from Hood River, OR about 15 minutes away. This is now a popular area for Underwood locals to watch the Hood River fireworks on the Fourth of July.

News/Feature Photos

Kristina Larson dresses as a zombie for Halloween festivities in her WR 121 classroom.

Dr. Nicholson took the liberty of dressing like a pirate for his WR 121 class on Halloween. Students were welcomed to dress up and received candy out of a plastic pumpkin.

Kristina (zombie) and Khalid (gingerbread man) have a discussion whilst waiting for Dr. Nicholson.

Kayleen Talbert Portrait

Kayleen "Kat" Talbert

Kayleen "Kat" Talbert is a student at LBCC taking a few art classes. Talbert hopes to enroll in more classes next year and hopefully become a full time LB student.

Week 3 Photojournalism assignment

The makeup artist carefully applies the girl's zombie makeup in preparation for the Zombie Chase at the Albany Senior Center.

Runners beware, the zombies have taken another "victim".

The group of makeup artists and volunteer zombies scramble to prepare for the upcoming Zombie Chase at the Albany Senior Center.

Courtyard Football (10/6)

Planned Parenthood Project (assignment)

915 small pink crosses were posted around the grounds to represent the 915 abortions performed daily.

The Students for Life org. hands out small fliers with information about Planned Parenthood awareness.

Rebekah Barnes gives a flier to an interested student.

My nephew, Calvin James Tolbert, was born in 2010 and older sister, Hailey Tolbert, and father, Tim Tolbert, couldn't be happier.

Students take advantage of the dry weather to hang outside in the LBCC courtyard on a Thursday afternoon.

McKenzie Hooper is jotting down some notes for class in the LBCC courtyard.

Linn Benton students enjoying the sunny weather on a Thursday afternoon in front of the bus stop.