Process

My process is bowling...

First step to bowling is to find a bowling alley. Some times they have special times that cost less or when the lanes are full with people playing league play; that is a specific group of people who get together weekly and play against each other.

After you arrive you pay for how many games you want to play, they tell you which lane to play on and then hand you shoes.

The shoes are special because you can't use regular shoes on the floors they use to make the lanes.

Next you find a ball that your fingers will fit in and isn't too heavy or too light, then take it to the lane where your going to be playing.

Enter the names of players so the computer can keep track of the score and whose turn is next.

First person rolls the ball down the lane toward the bowling pins at the end of the lane. You get 2 chances to try and knock over all the pins. 

When you roll it down to the end of the lane the bar comes down so no more balls can be thrown and then a machine picks up the pins that are still standing and sweeps away the ones that have been knocked over. It counts the ones knocked over and marks the score accordingly. 

The ball is returned to you through a machine under the floor.

There is one instance where you would only get 1 turn to throw the ball, that would be if you knock over all the pins with your first ball. That is called a strike. If you get all the pins knocked down but it takes you both balls to do it then it is called a spare.

After you throw your second ball it is the next person's turn. Play goes on alternating between players until everyone has had 10 turns, each turn is called a frame. On the 10th turn it is possible to get to throw 3 balls in one turn. If you get a strike or a spare in that 10th turn, then you get to throw 1 more ball so that the scoring can be completed. If you are playing more then 1 game then play continues in this fashion until you have finished all the games for which you have paid.

9th step, put your own shoes back on and take the borrowed ones back up to the desk and put the ball back on the rack.

All the shoes are sprayed after each time they have been used. 

A mom letting her little guy pick out a ball.

 

This little guy was ecstatic with his role. Didn't matter that he didn't knock them all down, just that he hit some and made them fall.

The balls come in all sorts of colors and with different kinds of swirls and sparkles to them. Some are even glow in the dark for when playing special games under black lights.

Walk out the door cuz it's time to go home!!

Magnum Photographer ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI !!!!Updated!!!!

I picked Alessandra Sanguinetti. She photographed a lot of kids and animals especially in funny  positions but I really liked the way she documented 2 cousins' relationship over the course of their critical growing up years.
http://alessandrasanguinetti.com/index.php/project/the-adventures-of-guille-and-belinda/

Megan Feb 2014

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Specific Group of People

My project was to find a narrow group of people who have something in common, the more narrow the better. I had already decided that I was going to have my group be tall women with large shoe sizes.

I work for Sports Imaging Photography of Utah taking pictures of kids sports teams. When one of the teams came through with a female coach who was tall, now granted, since I am only 5'4, a large portion of the female population are taller then me; I gathered up my courage and asked her what size shoe she wore. When she told me that it was a size 12, I knew that I had found the narrow group I was searching for; tall women who are mothers of children who play Jr Jazz BB, have a large shoe size and are or have been coaches. I pushed myself to go into the crowd and ask tall women what size shoe they wore. After establishing that they had a large enough shoe size I asked if they had any coaching experience and then if I could photograph them. I didn't have a lot of time since I was at work, so I grabbed my personal camera and snapped a few pictures before the next group came. 

My second group of women coaches also had the same things in common... they are women who have children playing Jr Jazz BB, they are taller then I am, they have coached something, and have a size 9 or larger shoe.

This is Gretchen Polhemus Jensen and she wears a size 9.5-10 shoe. She is a former Miss USA, worked for ESPN and is now a host on ABC's Good Things Utah. I am so excited to have met her and been able to take her picture!

 This is Heather Carlson. She is 5'10 and wears a size 10.

 

Amalia Andrews is 5'10 and wears size 11

 Valorie Draper coaches 3rd and 4th grade girl's Jr Jazz BB for Pleasant Grove. She has been coaching since college and loves helping kids of all ages learn the techniques of playing sports. She is taller then I (I forgot to ask) and wears a size 9 shoe.

 

  Erica Valgardson has a daughter playing Jr Jazz BB for Pleasant Grove. She has coached volleyball and basketball for about 5 years and loves to coach the younger girls teams. She is 6' tall and wears size 11 shoe. — with Erica Valgardson.

Dime Project Controversial Habitat

 While scouting for my project I drove all around my area taking random pictures until I came to a dirt road just west of the I-15 between the University Ave on ramp and the Provo/Springville exit. It was a snowy day and the road looked very pretty with snow covering it and the trees.

As we drove I took pictures of horses, cows and some fallen trees that looked like beaver had been eating them.

As I was taking pictures of the living trees I noticed several balls in the trees. As I got closer one of the balls lifted off into flight. They were Northern Harrier Hawks.

 I watched them soar over the marsh, also known as Provo Bay. They circled around and around and then dove down looking for food. There were a few other birds flying around.

During my research to find the speices of Hawks I had photographed I came across a recovery progam for the June Sucker Fish. The June Sucker fish lives in Utah Lake, there are no other place in the world that they live naturally. The phragmites which can grow to 15’ tall is an invasive plant that has taken over miles and miles of shoreline and leaves the small June Sucker fish no place to hide from the carp which have over run the lake. The June sucker fish was put on the endangered species list in 1986 due to a critical habitat caused by a combination of the phragmites and the carp.

There are plans in place to kill and remove the noxious plant to take back the once inviting beaches and to help the June sucker fish replenish and be removed from the endangered species list.

Thinking back to the marsh where I saw the hawks I thought about all the phragmites I had seen and how those were contributing to the depletion of the June sucker fish. I wanted to go back and rip those weeds right out of the ground but as I started going through the pictures of the hawks I began to wonder if the project to reclaim the shoreline and help the june sucker fish population might have a negative impact on the Harrier Hawks and the other birds and animals that live in the phragmites. In addition there was the evidence of beavers in the surrounding ponds, which also might be impacted by the removal of the phragmites.

 

 

 All in all I just am not sure that the removal of the phragmites will have a positive affect  eco system of the lake. I am concerned that by taking out the phragmites it will destroy the habitat for the smaller birds and mammals that the Harrier Hawk feeds off on, leading to the reduced number of all of the wildlife who make their home in the marsh. The Harrier Hawk is beautiful and I would hate for the numbers of that bird to decline.

9/11 portraits

 
Lavee Reeve @ home in Sandy Utah
It was my oldest son's birthday. I woke up that morning and went into the living room. I turned on the news and saw an airplane crash into the one tower. My first thought was, "why would they let someone fly an airplane through that building?" Then I saw the people in the streets running every which way. I then thought to my self "How could an airplane crash through a building and them not know about it ahead of time." So scary! "They didn't care about their own lives." I called my granddaughter Natalie and told her that an airplane had gone through the building. I called my son next and asked him what he thought about the airplanes going through the buildings. "They had to do some thing to get some attention, just chalk it up to another terrorist attack." was his response.