Father Martin “Marty” Holler has been the priest at Christ The King Church in Athens, Ohio since 1985. Ordained in 1966 in Columbus, Ohio, Holler celebrates eight masses every week, with an additional Saturday mass when school is in session at Ohio University. Once a month, Father Holler and a handful of Christ The King members celebrate mass at Hickory Creek Nursing Home in The Plains, Ohio. For many of the residents, it is their only exposure to religion from the outside.

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Today I shot some portraits of video production major David Jeffries for class for a last minute assignment. Since I didn’t have much time, I used my smaller “speed lights” instead of my usual setup of studio lights.

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For my photo story project this quarter I have been covering the Marching 110 drum line during their practices and performances. Above is my final edit that I turned in for class.

Casey Ochoa, a junior painting major at Ohio University, builds a stretcher canvas in the woodshop at Seigfred Hall in Athens, Ohio, on October 14, 2009. Ochoa was working on her second of two canvases required for a painting class project. - NIKON D700 - 1/400 f/3.5 ISO2000 - 24mm

Today for photo class we were given a simple assignment: Go out and take make an image, come back to the classroom to edit and tone, then have it on the server before class is over.

Due to the inclement weather, I gave myself the challenge of not leaving the building to get my image. I found it in the workshop on the first floor, where a painting major was building a canvas.

Within twenty minutes of leaving the classroom, I had my image.