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Thanks baby.

A few updates

I haven't really had time to sort through the recent boxing pictures yet... they were a lil dark :( hopefully I can pull a few out of them... take some random ones that I shot for a school project for now.

Owner Holly White, 34, situates her 1 year old "kids" Cat Doocou(left) and his brother Felix outside her house. White is a 2nd year PhD student in the Religion program at Syracuse University.

Owner Holly White, 34, works on a presentation while her cat Felix and his brother Cat Doocou stand on the couch that overlooks the front yard। White is a 2nd year PhD student in the Religion program at Syracuse University.

(from left) Senior IST major, Ryan Fee points to a piece of BBQ meat while Pepo Tonov, 21, junior finance major retrieves it for him. Fee and Jon Rances, 20, both live in the house on the 700 block of Sumner and on Wednesday they bought a grill and have been grilling for three days straight.

Junior finance and entrepreneurship major Dave Silvers, 20, talks to Kendall Snelling, 21, a junior bio chemistry major while visiting a friend who decided to grill up burgers, sausages, corn, kielbasa, and hot dogs. The tenants bought the grill on a Wednesday and have been grilling for 3 days straight.

Senior psychology and history major, Bill Finn, 22 walks home with his roommate Kyle Cantarera, 22, senior advertising and history major after a game of tennis.

Ian DaRin, 14, skates at the intersection of Sumner and Stratford where his parents reside and rent out half of their house to students.

Boxing!

I still need to work on my sports shooting skills... heres a first attempt at shooting boxing... I have two weeks to get a whole lot better for when Golden Gloves arrive! :)

A.J. Regulbuto of the Syracuse Golden Gloves gets a talk from coach Ray Rinaldi in between rounds on Saturday March, 30, 2007. Regulbuto fought in the final fight of the day against Willie Monroe of the Greater Ithaca Athletic Club.

A.J. Regulbuto (Syracuse Golden Gloves) vs. Willie Monroe (GIAC)

A.J. Regulbuto (Syracuse Golden Gloves) vs. Willie Monroe (GIAC)

Judith Nagel (GIAC) vs. Janine Gomiela (Watertown) in the 165 weight class

Judith Nagel vs. Janine Gomiela in the 165 weight class (Judith on right)

randoms

Nick Kokonas, 20, practices on a set of tabla drums in his living room on a Tuesday afternoon. Kokonas is learning drums from Sandip Burman an Indian classical musician based out of Chicago.

One photographer in a big bad world!

This is what it looks like when one photographer dates another photographer!

Sean's send off

Aunt Paula and Ann. (Sean's mom)

Stepdad Darrel.

Older brother Kirk with Sean.

Brother Kirk and sisters Sandy and Bre with Sean.

Sean with his friend Mike.

Friends and family.

A toast to Sean.

Friends group picture.

Sean laughing with his friends a few hours before he flew back to his base in San Diego, CA.

Sean giving his mom a final goodbye hug at the Denver International Aiport.

Sean Irwin will be leaving for Iraq with the Marines on the week of March 12th, 2007 on a 7 month tour in Iraq. If you would like to send him anything his address is :
LCPL Irwin, Sean S
2/5 Golf Company, 2nd Platoon
Unit 40365
FPO - AP - 96426 - 0365

Tire changer!

So at about 1:30 a.m. on the drive home from the Northern Short Course I blew out a tire! Luckily for me I was well prepared, seeing as it wasn't the first time! :)

First you take the little car jack and you place it under your car (finding the metal ridge thing next to your tire) Then you crank away at the tire. I've learned if you make it go too high the wheel will spin and make it impossible to get the lug nuts off.

Then you shove the lug nut wrench onto a lug nut and if you are weak like me, you stand on it and bounce up and down till it loosens itself. Repeat for all the lovely lug nuts.

And Viola! You have just now removed a tire!

There would be pics of me putting my spare on, but at that moment that I had started to remove my tire, the New York State Thruway guy came and put it on for me! :)

Alexia Entry

I have been either busy with non-photo related items, or working on my same-sex adoption story. I don't think I will post much of it until I finish... so I won't be updating very regularly (as you can tell!)

I just logged on to post my Alexia entries... It's a photo competition of sorts, for the best photo essay that promotes world peace and cultural understanding.
Heres my 16... we were allowed 20 images max... anyhow this is all I have to show for now! :)



Next time you hear from me might be after graduation... and starting my internship!

My Alexia proposal
Raising children in same-sex families have been proven to be just as good as a heterosexual family. Limiting that would deprive children of caring homes.

In the year 2003, there were 523,085 children listed in foster care nationwide. Of those kid 118,761 are awaiting adoption, but only 50,144 of those waiting were actually adopted. An ongoing debate about the possibilities and legality of adoptions by same-sex couples could jeopardize the availability of caring families willing to adopt. Morgan’s original life would have been a world of uncertainty to a mom who gave birth to her from a prison. Now she is in Syracuse, NY and has moms and a brother to share her life with.

Parts of society argues that same-sex adoption should be illegal and that they don’t benefit the children. Even with those views the alternative of foster care statistically has been proven that the children are three to six times more likely to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems than those who are not placed in foster care.

The American Civil Liberties Union collected and summarized scientific studies on same-sex families and reported that no scientific studies have found that sexual orientation played any part in the psychological well-being, social development or the cognitive development of the children. It also found that children raised by same-sex couples are equal to children raised by heterosexual couples and also that sexual orientation played no part in determining the sexual orientation of their children.

In an effort to learn more about what makes up a same-sex family I have started photographing a story on a Caucasian lesbian couple who have adopted and are raising their two kids who happen to be African-American.

African-American babies are more commonly put up for adoption than Caucasian babies. Statistical evidence shows that Caucasians are more likely to abort or try to raise the child themselves. Adoption is not only good for the thousands of children who are in need of a home but they also give same-sex couples the ability to raise their own families. This takes children out of what could potentially be a life of hardships and puts them into a nurturing caring environment, which ultimately leads to a better society for all that are involved.

Limiting choices for the children needing to be adopted would mean that more children would be without a family and in turn placed into foster care.

My proposal for the Alexia Competition is to show that a same-sex interracial family, although they may be nontraditional can still prove to be a loving environment and that it benefits all parties involved including society as a whole.

Happy update

Past situation- Sent off internship package to San Antonio Express-News, got news about going to Europe for few weeks with family, gave up internships to wait for Fall internships and to allow for summer time travels

Today- San Antonio called and asked me to be their summer photo intern!!!

Quick update... few more coming

I've set these guys to med sized to see if I like them med or large! Enjoy! some good, some alrite, but the better stuff is yet to come! :)

Photo By Thao Nguyen
Richard Spooner of Team LaBarge rides Cristallo with a time of 59.45 during the Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament, held on Friday night starting with a $42,500 Syracuse Corporate Challenge and then moved onto the $15,00 Grambler’s Choice.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
(from left) Tom Ciappa, owner of the American Foundry, Mike Goldych, former physics teacher at Oswego high school, Jesse Bocinski, campaign manager of Bob Johnson, Bob Johnson, running for Congress of the 23rd district, Joanne Brace, former Democratic Election commissioner, Mary Ciappa, Chairman of Democratic city committee, and local attorney Mike Shanley crowd around the computer to get a quick peek of the polls. At 30 percent of polls tallied, Johnson had 37 percent of the votes. The Democrats of Oswego and Fulton gathered at the American Foundry in Oswego to root for the Democrats where they are a minority to the Republicans.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Micheal Morris, 18, and his new foster brother Zaw Hang Ling, 18, open up a Durian, a common Asian fruit at their foster house. Ling has been in the States from Burma since July and is still struggling to learn english. The durian which was frozen when they bought it was left out and ended up rotting when they finally opened it.


Photo by Thao Nguyen
The durian which was frozen when they bought it was left out and ended up rotting when they finally opened it. Durian is not often grown in the USA and is often imported frozen.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Residents and students of Auburn gathered for a bonfire and pep rally for their football team, which will be playing in a state tournament on Saturday.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Residents and students of Auburn gathered for a bonfire and pep rally for their football team, which will be playing in a state tournament on Saturday.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Junior Illustration major, Dan Tucker, 22, has been working at Alto Cinco on Westcott for about one and a half years where he bartends on weekdays and helps with the counter on Sundays.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Seniors Sijung Suh, biochem major, along with Kyp Hurn Lee, engineering major, and Winnie Wu, public relations major performed with their group of nine other members during the performance of Cheon Ji Korean Drummers at the stage during Syracuse University's International Festival of Music and Dance which is part of a celebration for International Education Week.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
A few portraits that I shot for fun for Alli.







Photo by Thao Nguyen
Edward Stove, 62, has been working at Brighton Bakery for 4 years. The bakery has been around for three generations, since 1928 when the owner's grandfather found it. The bakery also has a brick oven that was built by NYC masons in the 1920's and contains around 40,000 bricks.

update

So I've been busy and haven't posted anything for about a month... I promise I'll update when I get home! I just started an amazing photo story that I won't be able to post until next semester when I finish it... catch a sneak peek of it on my website under adoption...

a few more finals and then it's driving back to texas for me! I have my xmas list... would it surprise you to know that everything on it relates to photo?! lol Hopefully I'll be able to buy a light kit when I get home this break... credit card is good for something right? :)

ta ta for now... photos coming in a few weeks!

Christine

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Christine Dixon now lives with her sister Donna Mallinson after the death of their father eight year ago. Mallinson sometimes takes Dixon to the respite so that Dixon can do interactive activities and Mallinson can rest without having to worry about her sister.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Christine Dixon holds her new Anne Geddes lady bug doll that she recently recieved. Dixon's room is filled with various dolls and even a collection of Elvis plates stashed in the closet.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Christine Dixon eats her dinner while her sister Donna Mallinson pours her a cup of chocolate milk into her Otto cup.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Christine Dixon and her sister Donna Mallinson decided on which pair of pajamas that Dixon should wear that night.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Christine Dixon gets zipped up by her sister Donna Mallinson after changing into her pajamas. Dixon always changes into her pajamas after dinner and watches her favorite show, Walker, Texas Ranger.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Christine Dixon sits in the living room and waits for her show to come on for the evening.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Christine Dixon with a portrait of her late mother, who had passed away when she was younger.