Krista Kruse tips a header toward Belmont goalie Nicole Berner. The match was declared no contest due to weather.
There will be no record of this shot. No scorecard for this match. No official tally of the one goal Belmont managed to slip past the Missouri defense. For all practical purposes, the meeting between Missouri and Belmont at Walton Stadium never really happened.
There was a lot of rain. And then more rain. And wind so strong that the dinky press box atop the grandstands actually shook and suffered a broken door when a gust bent it too far backwards.
After a 75-minute delay before things even got started, the teams squeaked in 28 minutes of action. Then referees called the match due to lightning, and torrents quickly followed.
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Iceberg wedge salad with bleu cheese, bacon, tomatoes and red onion
Mmmm, bacon. Three slices to be exact.
When I visited Chris in Atlanta, I ordered an iceberg wedge salad at Atlantic Seafood Company. I’ve ordered wedge salads before, but for whatever reason, they never actually looked like wedges — the lettuce was always chopped up or spread out like a regular salad.
Atlantic’s version was good (and the proper shape) but had a little too much dressing even for my heavy palate. I was also disappointed with the miniature size of the bacon bits and finely diced tomato pieces. I knew I could make a better one at home, so I did for dinner tonight.
Super easy, super fast, super tasty. And not too unhealthy considering it was the only meal I ate all day.
Exposure: 1/125, f/6.3, ISO 320
Technique: natural window light, plate on black velvet.
Kim Shaw looks at final results for the Associate Circuit Judge, Division 5 race as her mother, Jane Poore, stands by at her side during a watch party at D. Rowe's in Columbia. Shaw lost to incumbent Larry Bryson by only 243 votes.
Election days are crazy for a journalist. Even primary elections in August when only 24 percent of voters show up, most of whom not even halfway decently educated on the issues or candidates they’re voting for.
Over the last month at the Missourian, I’ve been on the elections beat doing research, interviewing candidates, writing profiles and going to candidate forums. All in the name of objectivity, and ultimately, voter education. That said, it was frustrating to hear voters at the polls tell me, “I really don’t know what Proposition C is about” or “I don’t know either of those candidates so I left my bubbles blank.”
Well, voters, all of that information is available to you. In multiple places. I know, because I helped write it online and read it in the dead tree edition too. It’s not my job to tell you who or what to vote for, but there is really no excuse to say you’re uninformed. Not in 2010. » Continue Reading…
Fresh steamed crabs at Kahler's Seafood in Rosedale, Md.
And this is why I keep coming back to Maryland. Literally right off the boat and steamed fresh!
It’s still pretty early in the season for local crabs. Sometimes there just aren’t enough being caught in the Chesapeake Bay before Memorial Day, and local crab houses have to turn to suppliers in North Carolina and Louisiana to meet demand. The fact that we’re able to get fresh crabs from the bay this early is definitely a good sign, especially since we won’t be seeing much of anything from Louisiana at all thanks to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and its effects on seafood in the Gulf of Mexico.
Also: Photo taken with my new Canon PowerShot S90, an impressively capable and conveniently tiny point-and-shoot that more than meets my picky standards.
Missouri's Dane Opel misses an attempt at a diving catch on the wet turf at Taylor Stadium during a rainy game against Nebraska.
In the deepest realms of Peace Park on the MU campus, a fire-breathing Grad Student Monster lurks, scaring children and helpless undergrads who dare pass the brick bridge under his watchful eyes. They turn back at once; none shall pass.
Our photograph is definitely in the realm of “imaginary concept” more than anything else. It’s supposed to illustrate some evil creature (Jonathan) that scares and chases away innocent girls when they try and pass over his bridge. Someone also brought of the idea of grad students scaring away undergrads…but that could have been a joke, I’m not sure. To achieve the effect of forced perspective, Jonathan’s face was mere inches from the camera; the bridge itself was probably 30 feet away. » Continue Reading…
The view of the tent rock formations from halfway up the Canyon Trail; Jemez Mountains on the horizon.
Wind, water, and time. The three ingredients nature needed to produce the cone-shaped structures found throughout Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in Northern New Mexico. The monument, while federally owned, is located on land in the middle of the Cochiti Indian Reservation. We took a 1.5-mile trail that wove in and out of the base of tent rocks, passed through canyons, and finished with a steep, 600-foot incline to the top of a ridge. » Continue Reading…
Hundreds of rosaries rest on shrines in and around the chapel.
While driving to Chimayo from Santa Fe on the Wednesday before Easter sunday, we noticed several people walking on the shoulder of the road, which was a major U.S. highway, and had no idea why on earth they were there. Electronic message boards instructed the “walkers” to stay to the right, so clearly the authorities didn’t mind. It was only until later that day we realized what was going on. During Holy Week, and especially on Good Friday, hundreds of people make a ritual pilgrimage by foot to Chimayo from towns and pueblos all over the state.
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The Rio Grande Gorge, seen from NM-68.
I’ve finally stumbled across some free time, which means it’s time to blog photos from my spring break trip with Chris to New Mexico. We drove from Columbia, through Kansas and Oklahoma and crossed into New Mexico from the northeast. After stopping briefly in Cimarron and visiting Philmont, we drove through a mountain pass to Taos, then south to Santa Fe where we spent most of the rest of the week.
About seven miles outside of Taos, the Rio Grande snakes through a deep gorge that seemingly appears out of nowhere in the middle of the desert. Chris and I both had been to the gorge before, but still wanted to return. The picture above was taken from a pull off on the low road from Taos to Santa Fe. The picture below was taken from the steel truss bridge that crosses the gorge. The rails on both sides of the bridge are etched with many years worth of graffiti and carvings.
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Magnum Photo Agency: Access to Life
The Magnum Photo Agency provided content for a photographic and documentary video project about AIDS for The Global Fund. Magnum photographers produced stories on the effects of HIV/AIDS in nine different countries, gathering multimedia and stories from thirty different people before and after they began treatment for AIDS.
The first element of the multimedia presentation on the website is an interactive map of the world highlighting the countries where stories were produced. Each country is a button that when hovered over brings up a thumbnail and brief description of the attached story. Clicking on a country takes the user to another splash page, with a more in-depth summary and a button to play the video story directly in that frame. The country splash pages all provide a graphic link back to the main interactive map so the user can start over freely. This link is also available throughout the playing of the videos. The user has complete control of the videos, with Play/Pause buttons, volume control, a scrubbable timeline with thumbnails, and an option to enter fullscreen mode. All of these controls are intuitive and fit in seamlessly with the presentation. » Continue Reading…