The photos on this Blog were taken as part of a summer independent study class at North Idaho College. The project was to photograph events from May through August, 2010, for the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe. Special thanks to Jerome Pollos, my instructor, Marc Stewart, Public Relations Director for the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe, and Phil Corlis of NIC for setting up this class and handling all the administrative stuff. I am grateful for the opportunity these three folks and the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe made possible for me this summer!

The entries below act as a learning journal and contain my feedback to my instructor, Jerome, on my various assignments and tasks throughout the entire course. His and other comments can be found in the comments section below each post. Everything is unedited and completely intact the way it was on the last day of class, July 28th, 2010, except for the Feast of Assumption section which I was asked to shoot for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe after my class was over. This section was added afterwords to completely represent my summer photography efforts.

PLEASE NOTE: Some photo sets unrelated to the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe have been included and were used as instructional tools along the way. These were situations where I went along with Jerome as he shot photos for the Coeur d'Alene Press newspaper.

The first section below is my final portfolio. Everything below that is arranged from newest to oldest, so everything is in reverse order by date.

Please feel free to take a look and leave me some comments. I would love to hear from you!

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Rockin' the Rez - Dance/Video in the Spokane Mall

The kids were coming down an escalator from the second floor so I started with my 70-200mm lens, intending to switch to a wide lens when they got to the bottom.  I wanted to get a few more shots of the kids towards the back with the 70-200mm lens so I left it for another minute.  Then it was over before I could switch to my 17-50mm lens.  After hours of watching the kids practice this dance, I had no idea it was only three or four minutes long.  I think I got some nice shots but wanted to practice getting closer.  There are a lot of snapshots in here at the end because the kids were celebrating doing a good job so I took the photos and let them have their day.

72 photos total
30 photos posted out of about 45 keepers

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