The above portrait was a long time coming. Laptop shots are a dime a dozen, and tend to be pretty bland. Inspired by David Hobby’s self-portrait, I was pretty happy with how it came out. More below.

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Today I shot one of the coolest assignments of my summer here at the Press, a 500-foot water slide on Lyon street in downtown Grand Rapids. Thanks to the wonderful help of fellow intern Jessica Scott, several of the images below were picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, and the Charlotte Observer. You can read the front-page story from the Grand Rapids Press here.

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Katie Chandonnet, of Fremont, Jaclyn Popek, of Westland, and Tracie McIntyre, of Cincinnati, OH, share a laugh while putting stickers on lunch bags at the Cook Carriage House Cafeas part of the 17th annual Project Unite, a program for incoming students at Aquinas College where volunteers serve the Grand Rapids community by completing various projects near the college. (Joel Hawksley | The Grand Rapids Press)

Aquinas College, which is barely a mile from my house, had a community service afternoon as part of their incoming freshman orientation.

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Out to East Lansing today for 9:00am practice.

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While riding the elevator up to the newsroom today, I got the call to head out to a house fire in Alto.

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