Just because it was winter break didn’t mean we took a break from making photos. This post highlights some of the best of what our students took over the last month and a half, and goes to show that we’re already off to a great start for the new semester!
Each Thursday, WKU’s Student Chapter of NPPA brings you some of the best images of the past week taken by our very own classmates. To submit for our weekly posts, you must currently be a WKU Photojournalism student and have taken the images or produced the video within the last week (Tuesday to Tuesday). Send your top 1-5 selections to wkunppa@gmail.com by our Tuesday 6:30pm deadline and our officers and attendees will pick the best of the bunch to showcase at our open meetings every Tuesday at 7pm in Lab 127.
Dawson Botsford, 19, water-skis on Lake Whippoorwill on December 25, 2013. JABIN BOTSFORD
Melissa Patterson, 21, of Bowling Green, Kentucky. BRITTANY GREESON
Billy Scott teaches his kid’s class how to put someone in a sleeper hold. Scott educates his students on the importance of respect for Mixed Martial Arts. MICHAEL NOBLE JR.
United States Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, poses for a portrait before a meeting with local business leaders to discuss what has been happening in Washington, DC at The Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce in Lexington, Ky., on Thursday, January 23, 2014. JABIN BOTSFORD
Neal Tisher, a senior at University of Alabama, fails a vault during the 2014 Vanderbilt Indoor Invitational. MICHAEL NOBLE JR.
Partiers dressed as Santa Claus dance at McFadden’s in Nashville during Santa Rampage on Saturday, December 14, 2013. The event brings an expected 1,000 revelers dressed as Santa Claus and other christmas icons to Nashville every year. BRIAN POWERS
A fisherman stands on the Malecon, a seawall along the coast of Havana, Cuba. NAOMI DRIESSNACK
Josh French, 34, of Linden, player for “Tucker Attorney” sustains a bloody nose after getting hit in the face with a hockey puck during his game against the “Canadian Tuxedos” on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 during the Third Annual Lake Fenton Winter Classic at Barnum Lake. KATIE MCLEAN
People are seen in reflective windows of the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services walking up and down West 17th Avenue in front of Ohio Stadium on Wednesday. The Ohio State University campus was quiet, cold and desolate after finals ended last week. Classes will start back for the Spring 2014 semester on Jan. 6. JABIN BOTSFORD
Matt Stuller shows off his love of deer hunting with a homemade display showing various Christmas characters shooting deer with a bow and arrow, a snowman shooting a squirrel with a gun, and Santa’s slay and reindeer crashing into the roof of his home at 14437 East Broad St in Reynoldsburg, Ohio on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2013. Stuller has been hunting since the age of 8. “You see the same thing all the time on houses and this is different,” said Stuller. “Why would Santa shoot one of his reindeers? I don’t know but it’s funny.” JABIN BOTSFORD
Tanner Phipps is thrown off of a horse as he competes in the bareback bronc competition during the World’s Toughest Rodeo traveling show at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. Phipps scored 82 after riding the full 8 seconds. Cowboys are judged on their control and spurring technique, and the horses are judged on their power, speed, and agility. A good score in the bareback riding is in the mid 80’s. JABIN BOTSFORD