School Bus Heros

From the left Marques Rangel, Grant Walker, Britney Matthews, Alex Dewitt, and Katlyn Scovill, students at Bay City Central High School took over their bus on Monday when the bus driver passed out. They took control of the bus, parked it and called 911.

Tennis Portrait

Lauren Russell is in her third season as No. 1 tennis player at Essexville Garber.
As a lefty, she has a unique advantage on most of her opponents, who are accustomed to facing right-handed players.

Religious Times

Released

Donna Yost is a name heard quite a bit in this part of Michigan. Today she moved into an apartment in Bay City. She hoists a dreamcatcher above her head where she plans on putting her bed.

Yost had been accused of killing her 7-year-old daughter in 1999. She was released last month after she agreed to plead no contest to child abuse. The no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt. "I never did hurt my daughter, but I feel because of my being highly depressed, I had to accept this to put this behind me and be with my family," Yost said. Yost was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of her 7-year-old daughter Monique Yost, who died from a fatal dose of prescription medication. The conviction was overturned last year, and a new trial was to start next week in Midland.

This photo shows emotion that you rarely see in Donna.

Thoughts?

Trying to make it all come together.

I'll be the first to say, there's a hell of a lot going on in this photo.



I ended up with 10 players for a portrait. 10 PLAYERS!!! I how the hell are you supposed to make a portrait with 10 people work without it looking like a team shot. I was stressing out about this assignment for a few hours today. When I got there, I saw how the outlets were conveniently installed near old bleachers... and behind the bleachers are was a wooded area. These are the All Saints Cougars... cougars live in the woods right? They also come out on cloudy days to play baseball and softball I guess.

Anyway, I think this photo would have been a disaster without the bleachers. I used them to contain the situation. If this photo had any chance of working I would have to make a few kids more prominent than the others, which may piss some parents off but I can't please everyone.

I placed the kids unevenly on the bleachers, and then balanced the sides with the two kids with the bats. I noticed how serious and focused the kid front and center was so I had him hold his hat and lean forward. Had he been wearing his hat I think his eyes would have been hidden and would conceal his attitude. He also holds a good solid center in a photo that has a lot going on.

Shelter

It's been cold and breezy... She was keeping out of the wind.

Here Fishy...

There were in fact fish down there...




...I did put forward the idea that it might not be a good idea to eat anything he catches from that ditch.