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New Palestine high school Senior, Mason Oglesby (11), celebrates after getting a touchdown in the IMG Academy at New Palestine game on Friday, October 9, 2026 in New Palestine, Ind. For the assignment to job shadow a professional photojournalist, I chose to shadow Grace Smith at the IndyStar. She graduated in 2024 from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in journalism and cinema arts. At the University of Iowa, Smith was managing editor, photo editor, and photojournalist at t

Emily Cannon listens as another ROTC member explains what went wrong during her field exercise at Veits woods in Mount Pleasant, Michigan on Thursday, October 1, 2026. Emily Cannon practices what to do under fire during field exercises in Veits woods in Mount Pleasant, Michigan on Thursday, October 1, 2026. Emily Cannon shoots the cannon, "Genny's Own," during Central Michigan University's Homecoming game after the third touchdown at Kelly/Shorts Stadium in Mount Pleasant, Mi

I like that LaBelle mentioned that good features are anywhere that there are people. This is something that I feel like I tend to forget that there can be good picture opportunities to be found anywhere if you’re willing to look for them a little bit. I think that I never consider taking my camera everywhere with me because I have thoughts in my head of what I should be taking photos of or want to take photos of and feel like those aren’t things that I could find while walkin

I thought it was interesting that LaBelle put eavesdropping down as an important information gathering tactic. I think that a lot of people see eavesdropping as rude, but he sees it as “people watching in audio form” which I thought was a really cool way of thinking about something differently like that. It has been kind of intriguing to me the ways that he sees things differently than your average person would and the ways that he can take things that most see as something n

The importance that is placed on making your photos different and stand out so early on in this section of the reading really stood out to me. I have always known that I need to make my photos different from other peoples and make them stand out, but I don’t think that I could confidently say that I have been successful in doing so. I want to try to use some of the things that he mentioned to make my photos unique. I think that, specifically, I want to try to incorporate humo

Some of the stories LaBelle gave us about things that he had done as a curious child were kind of disgusting. I almost don’t believe it. I definitely believe the story about him licking a frog because I have had a kid at work do that before but I’m not sure that I believe that he swallowed a living anchovy. Just the thought of it makes me gag a little. But I think it was nice that he added in these stories to help explain a healthy curiosity. I thought it was real

After reading LaBelle talking about how he keeps a notebook everywhere and just writes down every idea he has, it made me think about how many ideas I have had and just forgotten because I didn’t write them down somewhere. I think that maybe I should start writing down ideas that I have so that they can actually become something instead of letting them float off into the abyss. I have thought about keeping a notebook or even just a pen on me at all times and just fail to do s