Defining Moments

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Several local groups showed up at the Coralville Reservoir this afternoon to raise money for the Special Olympics by jumping into the freezing water. Well, it wasn’t actually freezing, but rather, a balmy 44 degrees. One of the participants, a Coralville police officer, was nice enough to save me a spot in the Sheriff’s boat, so I had a great vantage point to shoot the action. It was pretty cold out there, and my hands are still stiff and numb, but…..I guess I won’t complain, since I stayed dry. There are a few pics below, and a gallery of larger images HERE.

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This was a really fun project which I did late last year and have been meaning to post about since then. The University of Iowa Biochemistry Department was updating their web site and wanted me to do some photography and design artistic headers for the individual faculty pages. I did all the faculty portraits. Then I spent some time in labs photographing equipment, spaces, and data. I combined my photographs with some data submitted by the investigators to design something unique for each faculty member, which reflected their own areas of study and showed off recent work. I’ve included some favorites below. Go HERE to see larger versions for the whole department and click on the thumbs to get to the research pages.

**I should note that while the individual faculty thumbs are also my portraits, the group photo at the top of the page is not.

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I did some dress rehearsal shots for City Circle’s production on Arkansaw Bear. It’s a really good show for kids, and there will be performances at the Iowa Children’s Museum through March 15th. Click HERE to see a larger version of this photo at Photernal.com, and be sure to click on the link to the gallery in the text below the image!