The gang of music

The Central Michigan University School of Music performed its annual concert on Nov. 19 in Plachta Auditorium at Warriner Hall. They performed George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah."


This is perhaps one of the most visual assignments I've shot photos at. The symmetry of the performers sitting across the stage of Plachta Auditorium in Warriner Hall made for a unique perspective. I roamed around the auditorium — both upper and lower levels — to find different angles into the performance. Classical music is frighteningly difficult to pull off, it seems. Synchronizing so many performers to their respective notes through a long performance is no easy task. Especially with the clicking of my camera from all over the auditorium.


The work put on by the School of Music is usually visual because of the performers. The faces of the musicians are always contorted in singing, or playing notes in their instruments. The music they play is also very old, so to hear it is to go far back in time.

The unofficial holiday: Opening Day

A group of CMU students watch the Detroit Tigers in their Opening Day game against the Boston Red Sox on April 5 in the Bovee University Center on the campus of Central Michigan University. The Office of Student Life sponsored free food and drawings for students during the game. The Tigers won 3-2 in a walk-off single.

Few students stayed for the end of the game, reflected off a window in the Bovee University Center.

Waiting through a commercial break in the middle of the eighth inning.

Street hockey, under the sun

Andrew Mahaffey, left, and his older brother Nick, a Mid-Michigan Community College student, play street hockey Wednesday afternoon in Jamestown Apartment Complex, 4075 S. Isabella Rd.

Nick Mahaffey flips the ball in the air as he skates towards his brother Andrew. "I can't skate well in these," Nick said about his rollerblades. "I miss the ice."

Andrew Mahaffey approaches his brother Nick to take the ball from him during a game of street hockey.

Nick Mahaffey takes a break during a game of street hockey with his brother Andrew (not pictured).

Nick and Andrew Mahaffey cast elongated shadows on the pavement during a game of street hockey.