Best of 2011

I've been seeing a lot of "best of 2011" photos a lot lately, and if there's too things I love it's blog posts and bandwagoning. Just kidding. On a serious note 2011 was a big year for me. My confidence and ability with my camera grew a lot between picture stories, my favorite class, and The Flint Journal, my favorite internship so far. I had the opportunity to experience a lot of things that helped me understand the world around me as well as myself this year. So here they are, in chronological order, my favorite photos from 2011. Here's to improvement in 2012

The Last Flint Photos

I took these photos in my last few weeks at The Flint Journal. I've had them picked out for this post for over a week but for some reason I felt like I should post them from Virginia. My time in Flint was great. I had fun and grew a lot, and I'm thankful for the people who helped me along in my time there. These probably aren't my best photos from Flint but I hope that I'm better now than when I started at the Journal.
Lillian Croenwalt and Shainie Weingarten peek through a curtain dividing women and men to watch Croenwalt's husband, Lee, 90, read from the Torah with Rabbi Yisroel Wingarten (left) during his Bar Mitzvah Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, at the Chabad House in Flint Township.

Goodrich sophomore Carlos Fordham takes a shot during the Dec. 20, 2011, game against Beecher at Beecher High School. The Bucs won 82-59.

Sara Gonsler, 17, of Grand Blanc, helps Donovan Robinson, 10, sew one of the pillows he and other McGrath Elementary School students made for Munson Medical Center heart patients.

A woman involved in a three-vehicle crash resulting in multiple people injured on West Pierson Road in Mt. Morris Township sits in an ambulance at the scene.