I have had some real nice shout outs lately, but have been too busy to crow about them. So here goes some shameless crowing.
More than 900 colleges and universities submitted nearly 12,000 photos to U.S. News, which give glimpses of student life beyond the 2013 Best Colleges rankings data. And they chose one of my photographs as #8!
The photograph was taken during NOLA Experience at Airboat Adventures. Captain Monkey (yes, Monkey) was our captain and he was great! He let me move around (although I almost fell out of the boat twice), yelled at students to turn around for me, and took me into any part of the swamp I asked. Very fun experience so I am thrilled that this particular photograph won.
The NEW WAVE wrote a real nice article about my “award-winning” photograph.
Another surprise – an article I wrote for the NEW WAVE back in January about Carnival krewes (here’s my BLOG on it) was cited in the Word of the Day!
The NEW WAVE wrote another real nice article about this very cool honor.
And on another complete off-track note. I won best-dressed bull at the BULL RUN this year!
With my friends' daughters who asked - Can Sally teach us how to skate fast and hit girls' butts?
Total surprise! This was my second year winning it. The contest had just started and I walked up to shoot it when they called me on stage. I had already taken my skates off, handed my camera to my friend Steph, and stepped on stage with drink in hand. And within a few minutes walked away with the trophy! I must say, it was tough competition from steampunk Princess Leia in slave girl outfit – so thank you to everyone who cheered and clapped for me. It was especially nice since I was unsure if I was going to be able to have time to participate – I am glad I did!
Andrew demonstrates the "interactiveness" of my costume.
Aside from a trophy – I also walked away from the bull run with a painful bruise after being hit in the face. I realized that the other year I won, I was also injured (by being run into by a complete novice skater who body slammed me) and tore up my back.
It felt 100X worse than it looked!
I still have the scars from that one. Hopefully, if I am ever lucky enough to win again, I will escape injury-free!
And here is a link to some of my photographs of the Bull Run this year.