St. Matthew’s Episcopal kindergarteners perform in the school’s annual Christmas pageant at Grace Lutheran Church. St. Matthew’s is using the Houma church after a November 2010 fire destroyed its own. 

Meanwhile in Thibodaux… people take Halloween very seriously here.
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Meanwhile in Thibodaux… people take Halloween very seriously here.

I knew it was going to be a good night when I made some great shots of Lil B’s Cooking Dance being executed flawlessly. You can see those very #rare photographs on my 2011 CIAA tournament flickr set. Anyways, the Fayetteville State University men’s basketball team defeated Winston-Salem State University with a last minute three point shot from Sidney Evans, who was 2 for 17 on three point shots on the whole year. Read about it at FayObserver.com.
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I knew it was going to be a good night when I made some great shots of Lil B’s Cooking Dance being executed flawlessly. You can see those very #rare photographs on my 2011 CIAA tournament flickr set.

Anyways, the Fayetteville State University men’s basketball team defeated Winston-Salem State University with a last minute three point shot from Sidney Evans, who was 2 for 17 on three point shots on the whole year. Read about it at FayObserver.com.

@lilbthebasedgod The Fayetteville State University Bronco men’s basketball game engage in the very #rare #legendary cooking dance, inspired by the popular musical artist “Lil B the Based God.” Seeing as how Lil B hails from Berkley, CA, its quite marvelous that his dance has spread all the way to places like North Carolina. It was a very #rare moment, they cheffed about 36 meals and then decided to play some basketball. Needless to say I was very excited and I nearly started cooking a 5 course meal myself. Back to, y’know, what I usually blog about. It was my day off today, but I decided to go to the basketball game to work on my sports portfolio. Seeing as how my first potential employers will likely be looking for someone to shoot high school sports like it was breathing. Especially if I want to work for a place like this. So I tried using a different lens, and stayed in very unconventional positions for most of the game. I’ve uploaded the remainder of my shoot to flickr, but I have to confess, I missed out on a lot of the game action banking on the effectiveness of my position. I think if I give it another go from this position I could help my employment chances, but I wouldn’t try it for more than a half during an actual game. Anyways, thank you “based god,” and may I continue to work hard and make positive decisions in the future.
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@lilbthebasedgod The Fayetteville State University Bronco men’s basketball game engage in the very #rare #legendary cooking dance, inspired by the popular musical artist “Lil B the Based God.” Seeing as how Lil B hails from Berkley, CA, its quite marvelous that his dance has spread all the way to places like North Carolina. It was a very #rare moment, they cheffed about 36 meals and then decided to play some basketball. Needless to say I was very excited and I nearly started cooking a 5 course meal myself.

Back to, y’know, what I usually blog about. It was my day off today, but I decided to go to the basketball game to work on my sports portfolio. Seeing as how my first potential employers will likely be looking for someone to shoot high school sports like it was breathing. Especially if I want to work for a place like this.

So I tried using a different lens, and stayed in very unconventional positions for most of the game. I’ve uploaded the remainder of my shoot to flickr, but I have to confess, I missed out on a lot of the game action banking on the effectiveness of my position. I think if I give it another go from this position I could help my employment chances, but I wouldn’t try it for more than a half during an actual game.

Anyways, thank you “based god,” and may I continue to work hard and make positive decisions in the future.

From the time I first arrived in North Carolina, I’ve heard how important religion is to people here. On this day, I wanted to start a project that I’ve had floating around in my head, where essentially I would go to a different church every Sunday, and photograph a worship service. When I’m out looking for features, this would allow me to meet people outside of my usual social routine, and additionally provide me with better access to what’s “important” to those living here. As an atheist, I’ve admittedly grown more uncomfortable photographing in openly religious situations. It’s not like I feel emotional towards anything that is said, or that I feel uncomfortable about approaching people. I just have a bad habit of overthinking sometimes, and when a sermon uses faux-mathematical principles to “scientifically” explain the existence of the One True God, part of me wants to respond with something. But this isn’t my place, and I just end up standing there, thinking about how dumb I am for being unable to lift my own camera. It isn’t about the photographer! It isn’t about you! The above service, held in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., was not the one I intended on going to. I cancelled my outing to the original church of my choice, and instead had to go hunting for a billboard erected by a minister who wanted to respond to billboards erected in the north by a group of American Atheists. I had something to say here about “preaching to the choir,” but I got in my car and drove around for what ended up totaling over an hour in search of this billboard. I realized on my second pass of I-95 that the billboard still had a black tarp over it, with the bright orange “Adult Sex Shop” billboard trailing only a hundred yards later. Sorry folks, your drive by proselytizing will have to wait a few more days. But anyways, I eventually got back to work, and this photograph above is of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World District Mass Choir during the church service held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Destiny New World Outreach of Mt. Carmel Church. The Fayetteville Cumberland County Ministerial Council sponsored this worship service, entitled “Better Together,” and was participated in by parishioners of Heal the Land Outreach Ministries and Great Emmanuel Temple of Grace. To reiterate, I don’t have a problem with organized religion. One of my primary conscious motivations in undertaking a “church a week” type project is finding out more about what is behind religious communities. In a world where the interpersonal network is broken down over a series of wires and binary signals, I have deep respect for anything that can pull together people from different backgrounds and purposes. But please, don’t use science to try and prove the existence of God. It just takes all the fun out of faith. More of my photographs here.
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From the time I first arrived in North Carolina, I’ve heard how important religion is to people here. On this day, I wanted to start a project that I’ve had floating around in my head, where essentially I would go to a different church every Sunday, and photograph a worship service. When I’m out looking for features, this would allow me to meet people outside of my usual social routine, and additionally provide me with better access to what’s “important” to those living here.

As an atheist, I’ve admittedly grown more uncomfortable photographing in openly religious situations. It’s not like I feel emotional towards anything that is said, or that I feel uncomfortable about approaching people. I just have a bad habit of overthinking sometimes, and when a sermon uses faux-mathematical principles to “scientifically” explain the existence of the One True God, part of me wants to respond with something.

But this isn’t my place, and I just end up standing there, thinking about how dumb I am for being unable to lift my own camera. It isn’t about the photographer! It isn’t about you!

The above service, held in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., was not the one I intended on going to. I cancelled my outing to the original church of my choice, and instead had to go hunting for a billboard erected by a minister who wanted to respond to billboards erected in the north by a group of American Atheists.

I had something to say here about “preaching to the choir,” but I got in my car and drove around for what ended up totaling over an hour in search of this billboard. I realized on my second pass of I-95 that the billboard still had a black tarp over it, with the bright orange “Adult Sex Shop” billboard trailing only a hundred yards later. Sorry folks, your drive by proselytizing will have to wait a few more days.

But anyways, I eventually got back to work, and this photograph above is of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World District Mass Choir during the church service held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Destiny New World Outreach of Mt. Carmel Church. The Fayetteville Cumberland County Ministerial Council sponsored this worship service, entitled “Better Together,” and was participated in by parishioners of Heal the Land Outreach Ministries and Great Emmanuel Temple of Grace.

To reiterate, I don’t have a problem with organized religion. One of my primary conscious motivations in undertaking a “church a week” type project is finding out more about what is behind religious communities. In a world where the interpersonal network is broken down over a series of wires and binary signals, I have deep respect for anything that can pull together people from different backgrounds and purposes. But please, don’t use science to try and prove the existence of God. It just takes all the fun out of faith.

More of my photographs here.