Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Saturday's graduation (four days late)

So I had to suffer through two exactly the same graduation commencement ceremonies last Saturday. Well, they were not actually that bad but let's just say I essentially had guest speaker Will Shortz's (crossword editor of the NYT) speech memorized after the second ceremony. Here are some photos I liked that did not get published... :(



The journalism section--it is nearly perfectly symmetrical which made it one of my favs.



This guy was blowing up this novelty beach ball thing during one of McRobbie's speeches during the ceremony. They then proceded to bat it around at the end of the graduation. However, it landed in the Ph. D. section where it apparently was confiscated--I guess those people are too serious to have some fun. Kind of disappointing, too, because taking photos of a big graduation 2008 ball being batted around Assembly Hall was pretty photogenic.



Hehehe... he was asleep. Hey, if you had to sit through both commencement ceremonies AND play music, you'd probably be tired too.

1 comment:

Ronni Moore Photography said...

I love each of these pictures. Great seeing with all of these! I agree that there is something really attractive about the symmetry of the first picture (I am really impressed by the fact that most of us have shot graduation, yet I have never seen any of us get that shot), and the other two are unexpected moments that are really funny (I once heard a photo professional say that "funny" is perhaps the hardest thing to capture in a photo and here you are with two funny photos from the same event). Dude, you're a stud. Perhaps more material for your portfolio?