I haven’t really had time to sort through the recent boxing pictures yet… they were a lil dark 🙁 hopefully I can pull a few out of them… take some random ones that I shot for a school project for now.

Owner Holly White, 34, situates her 1 year old “kids” Cat Doocou(left) and his brother Felix outside her house. White is a 2nd year PhD student in the Religion program at Syracuse University.

Owner Holly White, 34, works on a presentation while her cat Felix and his brother Cat Doocou stand on the couch that overlooks the front yard? White is a 2nd year PhD student in the Religion program at Syracuse University.

(from left) Senior IST major, Ryan Fee points to a piece of BBQ meat while Pepo Tonov, 21, junior finance major retrieves it for him. Fee and Jon Rances, 20, both live in the house on the 700 block of Sumner and on Wednesday they bought a grill and have been grilling for three days straight.

Junior finance and entrepreneurship major Dave Silvers, 20, talks to Kendall Snelling, 21, a junior bio chemistry major while visiting a friend who decided to grill up burgers, sausages, corn, kielbasa, and hot dogs. The tenants bought the grill on a Wednesday and have been grilling for 3 days straight.

Senior psychology and history major, Bill Finn, 22 walks home with his roommate Kyle Cantarera, 22, senior advertising and history major after a game of tennis.

Ian DaRin, 14, skates at the intersection of Sumner and Stratford where his parents reside and rent out half of their house to students.

I still need to work on my sports shooting skills… heres a first attempt at shooting boxing… I have two weeks to get a whole lot better for when Golden Gloves arrive! 🙂

A.J. Regulbuto of the Syracuse Golden Gloves gets a talk from coach Ray Rinaldi in between rounds on Saturday March, 30, 2007. Regulbuto fought in the final fight of the day against Willie Monroe of the Greater Ithaca Athletic Club.

A.J. Regulbuto (Syracuse Golden Gloves) vs. Willie Monroe (GIAC)

A.J. Regulbuto (Syracuse Golden Gloves) vs. Willie Monroe (GIAC)

Judith Nagel (GIAC) vs. Janine Gomiela (Watertown) in the 165 weight class

Judith Nagel vs. Janine Gomiela in the 165 weight class (Judith on right)

I have been either busy with non-photo related items, or working on my same-sex adoption story. I don’t think I will post much of it until I finish… so I won’t be updating very regularly (as you can tell!)

I just logged on to post my Alexia entries… It’s a photo competition of sorts, for the best photo essay that promotes world peace and cultural understanding.
Heres my 16… we were allowed 20 images max… anyhow this is all I have to show for now! 🙂

Next time you hear from me might be after graduation… and starting my internship!

My Alexia proposal
Raising children in same-sex families have been proven to be just as good as a heterosexual family. Limiting that would deprive children of caring homes.

In the year 2003, there were 523,085 children listed in foster care nationwide. Of those kid 118,761 are awaiting adoption, but only 50,144 of those waiting were actually adopted. An ongoing debate about the possibilities and legality of adoptions by same-sex couples could jeopardize the availability of caring families willing to adopt. Morgan’s original life would have been a world of uncertainty to a mom who gave birth to her from a prison. Now she is in Syracuse, NY and has moms and a brother to share her life with.

Parts of society argues that same-sex adoption should be illegal and that they don’t benefit the children. Even with those views the alternative of foster care statistically has been proven that the children are three to six times more likely to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems than those who are not placed in foster care.

The American Civil Liberties Union collected and summarized scientific studies on same-sex families and reported that no scientific studies have found that sexual orientation played any part in the psychological well-being, social development or the cognitive development of the children. It also found that children raised by same-sex couples are equal to children raised by heterosexual couples and also that sexual orientation played no part in determining the sexual orientation of their children.

In an effort to learn more about what makes up a same-sex family I have started photographing a story on a Caucasian lesbian couple who have adopted and are raising their two kids who happen to be African-American.

African-American babies are more commonly put up for adoption than Caucasian babies. Statistical evidence shows that Caucasians are more likely to abort or try to raise the child themselves. Adoption is not only good for the thousands of children who are in need of a home but they also give same-sex couples the ability to raise their own families. This takes children out of what could potentially be a life of hardships and puts them into a nurturing caring environment, which ultimately leads to a better society for all that are involved.

Limiting choices for the children needing to be adopted would mean that more children would be without a family and in turn placed into foster care.

My proposal for the Alexia Competition is to show that a same-sex interracial family, although they may be nontraditional can still prove to be a loving environment and that it benefits all parties involved including society as a whole.

I’ve set these guys to med sized to see if I like them med or large! Enjoy! some good, some alrite, but the better stuff is yet to come! 🙂

Photo By Thao Nguyen
Richard Spooner of Team LaBarge rides Cristallo with a time of 59.45 during the Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament, held on Friday night starting with a $42,500 Syracuse Corporate Challenge and then moved onto the $15,00 Grambler’s Choice.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
(from left) Tom Ciappa, owner of the American Foundry, Mike Goldych, former physics teacher at Oswego high school, Jesse Bocinski, campaign manager of Bob Johnson, Bob Johnson, running for Congress of the 23rd district, Joanne Brace, former Democratic Election commissioner, Mary Ciappa, Chairman of Democratic city committee, and local attorney Mike Shanley crowd around the computer to get a quick peek of the polls. At 30 percent of polls tallied, Johnson had 37 percent of the votes. The Democrats of Oswego and Fulton gathered at the American Foundry in Oswego to root for the Democrats where they are a minority to the Republicans.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Micheal Morris, 18, and his new foster brother Zaw Hang Ling, 18, open up a Durian, a common Asian fruit at their foster house. Ling has been in the States from Burma since July and is still struggling to learn english. The durian which was frozen when they bought it was left out and ended up rotting when they finally opened it.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
The durian which was frozen when they bought it was left out and ended up rotting when they finally opened it. Durian is not often grown in the USA and is often imported frozen.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Residents and students of Auburn gathered for a bonfire and pep rally for their football team, which will be playing in a state tournament on Saturday.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Residents and students of Auburn gathered for a bonfire and pep rally for their football team, which will be playing in a state tournament on Saturday.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Junior Illustration major, Dan Tucker, 22, has been working at Alto Cinco on Westcott for about one and a half years where he bartends on weekdays and helps with the counter on Sundays.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Seniors Sijung Suh, biochem major, along with Kyp Hurn Lee, engineering major, and Winnie Wu, public relations major performed with their group of nine other members during the performance of Cheon Ji Korean Drummers at the stage during Syracuse University’s International Festival of Music and Dance which is part of a celebration for International Education Week.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
A few portraits that I shot for fun for Alli.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Edward Stove, 62, has been working at Brighton Bakery for 4 years. The bakery has been around for three generations, since 1928 when the owner’s grandfather found it. The bakery also has a brick oven that was built by NYC masons in the 1920’s and contains around 40,000 bricks.

Yay for learning to use my flash when I needed it! I was in a haunted house to do a shoot for the PS and had my tripod, a flash I gotta use on manual cuz TTL doesn’t work with my camera and my camera. (camera with a broken back screen so I can’t chimp and see if my exposure is off) Before yesterday every time I shot without being able to look at it (back in the film days… freshmen year) I came up with either blank frames, or extremely blown out stuff… So yay! Yay for surving as if I was still using film! Happy halloween!

Photo by Thao Nguyen 2006
Syracuse resident Garrett Morgan, 3, holds onto his fireman’s helment as his father Joseph Morgan, 43, walks past dangling heads in the haunted barn. The Great Swamp Conservatory put on a Great Haunted Barn, a haunted house intended for family fun as well as an education adventure with themes about wildlife, including owls, quail, osprey, and blue birds.

Photo by Thao Nguyen 2006
Ken Ford, 47, who lives down the road plays Dr. Blood in the bloody room of the Haunted Barn. The Great Swamp Conservatory put on a Great Haunted Barn, a haunted house intended for family fun as well as an education adventure with themes about wildlife, including owls, quail, osprey, and blue birds.

Photo by Thao Nguyen 2006
Ken Ford, 47, who lives down the road plays Dr. Blood in the bloody room of the Haunted Barn. The Great Swamp Conservatory put on a Great Haunted Barn, a haunted house intended for family fun as well as an education adventure with themes about wildlife, including owls, quail, osprey, and blue birds.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Maksim, 18 months, does his flying trick with his mom, Evgenia as they wait for the Nob Hill bus on campus. Davydova and her son are in Syracuse with her husband Sergey, a new media graduate student, are from Russia and will be in Syracuse for a year for his studies.

Photo by Thao Nguyen
Joe Chen, a 2002 Chemistry graduate of Syracuse came up with the idea to open up the Tea House on Marshall street when he was still a student in school. The Tea House, which opened in March of last year has 76 combinations of drinks and flavors to try.

If anyone wanted to know…. I LOVE my MacBook Pro!!!! 🙂

Photo By Thao Nguyen
Courtney Rile models an outfit designed by Hilary Gifford called “Threadlace Dress” made of ribbons, thread and silk during the Fashion Walk which sponsors the Partners for Art Education at the Delevan Art Gallery held on the night of September 16, 2006.

Complementary colors.

ASIA picnic… not really photoj but Judy looks like a dork! 🙂

Photo by Thao Nguyen 2006
East Syracuse Minoa Varsity football player Dayne Bennett runs with the ball as Jared Nies and Travis Suppes tackle him to the ground at the East Syracuse-Minoa football game versus Jamesville Dewitt on Friday night.

Photo By Thao Nguyen
(left to right) Lydia Kelly, 7, mom Moira (cq) Kelly and grandmother Joan Kelly looks at one of 50 quilts at the “Women of Bilical Proportion” art quilt show at The Reform Church of Syracuse on Teall Ave on Friday afternoon.

Random scenic driving from TX to Syracuse… this is in Penn.

State fair cigar! 🙂