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Here are some more from around the Hotel. I have got through just about all the photos and have quite the backlog so there will be many India posts to come.





iTeam member Danny Dressler. He runs a cool blog based on the outdoors, click on his name to check it out.

Fun fun fun!

This is a fun little slideshow that our fearless leader, Kerry Northrup (first photo) threw together with some of my photos.

Party in India

Finally started sorting through the 85 gigs of photos from the trip. Here are a few to ponder...

We ate dinner one night at this restaurant right next to our hotel. We got there expecting a decent place and then they take us up to the rooftop overlooking the city. Candles, incense, and good food (or so I am told. My mouth went numb after the first bite.), and a great view. It was a great introduction to what would be home for the next few days.
One of the events of the conference was a dinner party at a local golf course. Yes Dad, I went to a golf course in India, and no, we did not get to play. Anyway, the even was supposed to be like a quick sampling of the culture with food and dance from around the country for all the dignitaries to take part in.




Oh the colors! Loved it.

Don't yell yet...

...more India pictures are coming but I got backed up with classwork today and didn't get a chance to go through them yet :( My apologies, but with any luck you will see some tomorrow :)

Never have I ever

Never have I wanted to stay in Chicago more.

We have flown from Hyderabad to Mumbai and Frankfort before landing in Chicago.
Shouts of, "We are almost home!" ring out from my friends, yet... I am home.

I half joke with an instructor when I say, "Leave me here, I will meet you back at school in January."

Every fiber of my body resists the trek down the walkway to the plane that is taking me "home."

Thoughts of loved ones mere miles away seem to taunt the tear drops from my eyes as I take my seat.
Is it the place I love or the people in it?


I can't be sure of the answer but, I am sure...Never have I wanted to stay in Chicago more.


Conference day 2

Yesterday, today and tomorrow look to be pretty full with speakers which means poduim shots. WHOO! Here is a sampling from yesterday before today starts.

Winner of the Golden Pen of Freedom which is an award given to someone fighting for the freedom of the press. This year it went to Najam Sethi, Editor-in-Chief of The Friday Times and The Daily Times in Pakistan.
Paul Jansen, CEO of SPH Search at Singapore Press Holdings, tells the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad how SPH rejected Google and built its own search service implemented across all its online platforms.

India's president, Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, is scheduled to make an apperance and speech today at the World Newspaper congress.

Check out the blog for all the happenings of the day. WAN Congress 2009

A walk around the world

When finally got to the hotel we were advised to try not to sleep to help avoid jet lag. You can imagine the response from a bunch of 20 somethings who have been traveling from the other side of the globe for the past day. I knew if I sat down on anything but a board with nails I would pass out so I turned to the one activity I knew would keep me awake... exploration.


I was not alone on this excursion. A few others took to the streets to stay busy... and why not, when your in such a new and cool place.
This was actually an under construction addition to our hotel that just happened to have some amazing light. Later on we did portraits of the whole crew for the multi-blog. I will post those later or just check'em out on the blog itself HERE. This one is of Colleen Stewart who is working on a side project while we are here with Sara Shipley Hiles. I would highly suggest checking out their work about farmer suicides in india HERE.

Cows are everywhere.

More rooftop action.

The next three are from our morning gander around the area. We got a lot of goofy looks, but for the most part the people were really nice.



And on a fun note... High fivin' the light.

Travel Travel Travel

The conferance has its first round tables today, but in an effort to keep this somewhat chronological we shall start from the beginning. At breakfast this morning a comment was made about how long yesterday felt. After a moment we realized that yesterday had started around 8:30 Friday Morning and didn't end for close to 30 hours later... sans sleep.
Here are some photos from the trip which basically doubled the time I have had in my air travel career.

Our fearless leader, Mr. Kerry J. Northrup during a 4 hour layover in Chicago.
The 777 we were on for about 16 hours had an external camera which showed the takeoff and landings. Very cool.

Walking off the plane in Frankfort. I don't remember if this is a sunrise or sunset....

Boarding a plane.... I believe in Delhi?

1/500th of a second view the 20 or so hours we spent in a plane.

Also, check out the Multi-blog that will be being updated by our crew covering the conferance HERE.

Goodmorning India


After countless hours awake and way to much time in the air, our crew touched down in Hyderabad, India at roughly 5:30 a.m. local time. The crew of about 15 has been dubbed the "iMedia" team from WKU and we are here to help out and document the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum. We will be helping put together a multi-blog on the conference that other editors and journalists around the world can check out. For more info on the conference click HERE. I will keep this blog updated as much as possible so check back soon!

John Rogers

I met John Rogers last week as I was driving around the Shake Rag district of Bowling Green. He was really cool and put up with my camera in his face for a two days.




Raise the Roof

Micah played at the second annual Raise the Roof Concert that was held the other night at Hillvue Heights Church. All the proceeds are going to help fund the establishment of Buddy House, a learning and activity center for people with Down Syndrome that will have extended education activities and job coaching.


Joe's sister Kate got on stage for a song and helped sing a tune in her custom made Rock Star outfit.




More fun with portraits

I have been playing around with different processing of some recent portraits. I was going for a look similar to that of cross processing from the film days. It's not really journalistic, but it's fun to experiment and see where it goes. Thoughts?


Portraits

I present to you a splattering of portraits from the last few days. Portraits aren't normally my cup o' tea, but I have actually had a good time with this last bunch of them so hopefully that is a good sign.

Local guitar player/bar musician

A teacher that collects flamigos


A familiar face... Mr. Timothy Gilbert sheds the make up of Venus Knight to pose for one himself.

Car Fire

I was walking across campus yesterday and suddenly got a wiff of what smelled like burning plastic. I turned the corner and found smoke billowing out of the third story of the parking garage. "Hmm," I thought to myself, "That's probably not good."
Turns out it was a car fire. Officials weren't sure what caused the fire but were searching for the owner.

Old Friend

It has been awhile since Venus Knight has made an appearance on the blog, but she had a belated Halloween party last week paired with a drag show in their basement that was really fun. They had a few guest performances including her mom and best friend which was a blast to see.

Here are a few:




To freshen the memory, here is the link to the original story..... CLICK!

Keep on swimming....

keep on swimming...

Western hosted Xavier on the day of our homecoming football game. It was beautiful outside, so to go into a muggy pool was not exactly my first choice of ways to spend the day.... but alas, a good time was had and pictures made.






keep on swimming......

WKU Homecoming

So it was kinda a crazy weekend and it's looking like it is going to stay that way for awhile so I apologize in advance for any delay's in posts.
Homecoming was last Saturday and we got creamed 40-20 putting us at a whopping 0-9 on the season. O well, it was fun to shoot. My task was to keep an eye on the red towels that float around at all the games and other feature-y type happenings. It was fun, Enjoy.




This is at the very top of the stadium. Really no relation to Homecoming, but I took the previous photo, turned around, and saw this....