June Vula, of Thomas Township, looks at photographs at the 'Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration' exhibit at the Castle Museum, 500 Federal Avenue in Saginaw, Thursday afternoon. The exhibit features numerous portraits taken by Barbara Beirne focusing on teenagers who have immigrated from other countries into the United States and their experiences with such. 'It's so wonderful," said Vula, 'So many different religions and countries.'

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Cam Lempe -- Grosse Pointe, MI. 2009.

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For more? hit that shit. However, you should probably go through the photos backwards... as.. that's apparently how mlive rolls.

Also go to .. Jake May's blog for a totally killer photo of Dan LeFevour that didn't run.

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more images than you care to see of kids making cakes.

[ another very important image ]

i swear i'll post something meaningful soon.

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also.

saginaw wants to kill you.

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i was on a haitus. now i'm not.

it's a cow.

expect more work eventually. for now i have to pee and i'm hungry.

oh and i'm interning at the saginaw news now.

kbye.

pow wows are just boring

Just a couple updates on stuff I've shot lately[ish].

These were for a photo illustration we needed on "chap stick addiction".

"Addiction" and "overdose" are the same thing right? :\ 

I was worried the paper wouldn't like em and would freak the fuck out and make me shoot something lame, but I guess everyone dug it. Actually I got recognized in public for the photo (the second one ran). Some lady at the library asked if my name was Jeff LaMonde and if I was the guy who did the chap stick photo.

"Why yes I am ma'am"

"Why thank you ma'am"

anyway...

Oh look a little boyyyy.


And then we did some stuff about .. babies. Babies bein born. I shot some safe stuff. 

The safe stuff ran. I like these a little better.
I like the first one for Oprah starin down the baby. The second one for the shweet layerin.




Also.. if you haven't seen this, you should.

http://www.mlive.com/bctimes/slideshows/081229-christmas-with-ryan/

Watch it. Watchitwatchitwatch it.

 I tried to figure out how to post it directly onto my blog, but I can't seem to get it. Probably because I'm just linking it straight from mlive's site, but whatever.

If any of you know how I can link it here, let me know. I guess I could just host it on my own website, but I'm lazy.

I shot some swim meet tonight. I actually really dug some of the photos. I'll post em tomorrow perhaps.