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At the airport today looking for photos of passengers, I found a neat new vantage point overlooking an area near the ticket counters.

Earlier this week, I took a drive over to Michigan City, Ind. to hang out in a swamp with a class of sixth graders studying Environmental Science. Pretty cool, right? It was one of those somewhat rare moments as a photojournalist where you pinch yourself and ask, “Do I really get paid to do this for a living?” The pictures might not reflect my enthusiasm until you consider my usual Monday: waiting around in the office and building mugs. Walking around in the woods making pictures beats sitting in the office any day in my book. The reason I was there was to get a hands-on look at what an Environmental Science magnet school looks like for a story about a South Bend school considering becoming one.

In the midst of the Notre Dame football season last year, I completely forgot to post this little in-between moment I shot during a news story in November 2012. I only realized that today as I went through my 2012 photos for contests with my friend Ryan Dorgan. This frame came from an assignment about lactation consulting. I remember getting this assignment the day before Election Day last year, scratching my head and thinking “huh?” After all with a ton of politicians doing their last-second campaigning, one would not think a lactation consulting meeting would be your only assignment of the day. For a guy, I cringed a bit because it can be extremely awkward – for both the photographer and the subject in this case – to roll up to one of these meetings with cameras. It’s a very delicate assignment for sure and tough one to tastefully illustrate for the newspaper. However, I got this little moment towards the end of my time hanging out in the class. Success.

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