Shooting for the Whitworthian takes you to new places

Shooting for the Whitworthian is truly a job. We get assignments every week and have specific deadlines that must be met. It's a crazy thing sometimes. Normally it's manageable, but sometimes you're assigned to shoot an event that you just don't have time for but have to b at anyway. I suppose it's good practice for the real world where deadlines are tighter and even more intense.
This week should be exciting though. I shot the dean's dialogue tonight in Weyerhauser. While shooting a lecture can be the absolute kiss of death photographically it did force me to go to a lecture I may not have other wise thought about going to. I mean there are only so many pictures you can get of people talking and discussing topics, and not moving, and talking and did I mention there's very little to photograph. All this to say after I get my picture I get to sit and listen to the actually lecture which today was a discussion on Whitworth and it's stance and approaches to censorship. It was really exciting to hear some of the Whitworth faculty talk about how they approach the topic in their own departments because there were people from five different academic departments.
This is a talk that lots of people would have probably enjoyed, but not as many went to as I think should have. This was another example of how working for the Whitworthian has made me more aware of what's going on on campus. I get assigned to shoot everything from softball (which I shot this weekend and have the sunburn to prove it) to lectures, to dances and concerts.
This week I have been assigned to potentially shoot a Death Cab for Cutie concert down at Gonzaga, which you can get tickets for on their website (although that is still tentative because they are working on getting photographers in with fee tickets and such still) and I have also been assigned to cover the Luau on saturday. both are things that I might have wanted to go to but may not other wise have gone to. Either because I was lazy or just too plain poor to go. Oh, did I mention that you get into things for free as press. So this is my shameless plug to convince everyone to work for the Whitworthian. There are all kinds of jobs. Editors, copy editors, writers, photographers, graphics people and more. There is something for everyone. And it is great experience, it gives you the inside scoop on what's going on at school. For me as a photographer I get to see my pictures in print and it is so rewarding to overhear someone say "wow that's a cool picture" at one of my photos and know that I took that picture. I have been to so many more events and lectures than I normally would have attended. The experience is worth the frustration that can sometimes come with the territory. But then again, nothing is worth achieving if it isn't hard work now is it.