A Weekend With JROTC

I followed around JROTC cadets from Jackson, Mississippi for the weekend as they went through the courses.

First Ft Knox Frames

After a week of training I finally got to shoot. The assignment was for a piece about hot weather...so I was taking photos of people getting water and sweating when a soldier, Staff Sergeant Wilson, collapsed next to me. Turned out to just be a drill, but Wilson's acting fooled me and most of the people there, including the medic, Specialist Hurley, who didn't know it was a drill until he was told not to actually insert the IV.






Specialist Morgan Aiken demonstrates the ropes course for the Cadre.

Final Story

For my multimedia final I kept up with my basic final, with the Lawrence family. I spent three days in the lab editing this, so I hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmOFdEhUxA

Flooded Streets

Jordan and Thomas Maxey, 13 and 10, play with Amanda Robertson, 8, along with some other neighborhood friends in the water that flooded their neighborhood street after it rained for two days in Bowling Green. "The rain was bad yesterday, and bad this morning, but now it's good because I can swim in it." said Jordan Maxey.

Easter

Last Saturday I shot Easter festivities at Emmanuel Day Care and Preschool as part of my teacher project. It was a new experience for me, but it was fun.

The Fixers

spring semester

William Brown, 14, lights a cigarette in a space heater as John and Zach White, 13 and 14, and Andrico Smith, 12, show off their ‘colors’. They received the bandanas upon being initiated into the local bloods chapter in Bowling Green, Ky. (John, Zach, and Andrico’s last names changed by request.)
Passing a cigarette, I think it looks cool.
Jerry McAdoo, 38, Bowling Green, Ky., welds together a wagon for the landscaping crew at Western Kentucky University. “The flower people don’t like to use gas vehicles so we have to make them a wagon to carry their flowers in.” he said. McAdoo works in the Auto Shop on campus, but is often given odd jobs.