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Week in Pictures Weeks 9-12

  • Chris Fornaci, second baseman for the Pepperdine University Waves, readies to tag out USC Trojan Conner Sullivan, as Sullivan tries to steal second. The Waves beat the Trojans 9-4 on Tuesday March, 12 at USC's Dedeaux Field in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by © Andrew Davidson Jr.)
  • A Scion FR-S is parked on the side of the road at Granatelli's Dyno Day and Car Show in Oxnard, Calif., on Saturday, March 9, 2013. This displayed vehicle was a Vortex Racing FR-S. (©Joshua Schock 2013)
  • A car prepares to race through the autocross course that was set up at the Camarillo Airport in Camarillo, Calif., on Sunday March 17, 2013. (©Joshua Schock 2013)
  • A seagull takes flight into the fog after resting on the wooden siderail of the Ventura Pier on Wednesday afternoon, March 13, 2013 in Ventura, Calif. Hipstamatic photo. (Photo by Stephanie Grumbeck/Brooks Institute ©2013)
  • A participant in the parade for St. Patrick's Day promotes recycling of plastic bags and to stop the usage of them. The Bag Monster as she call herself was running from side to side of Main St. showing her sign on Saturday, March 16, 2013. (©Diego Camargo 2013.)
  • Lucy Skinner from Bowdoin (L) and Mia Ownes from SBCC share a high five after the Womans 3000m Steeplechase. Colleges from all parts of Southern California gathered at La Playa Field at Santa Barbara City College for the Easter Relays College Track Meet on Saturday, March 15, 2013 in Santa, Barbara, Calif., (© Dougal Brownlie 2013).
  • ts in the car waiting to be taken to her wedding on Monday, March 25, 2013 at Hollinshead Park in Bend, Ore. Hohman, her mother, and her Maid of Honor, were escorted to the wedding in a 1948 Cadillac by her fiancé’s best man and brother, Andrew Aschoff. (Photo by Miriam Creach ©2013)

Week in Pictures- Week 8 Spring

  • Passing by art work by Victor Reyes at Known Gallery in Los Angeles, Calif., Feb., 22, 2013. (Photo by Jon Lake©2013)
  • Kalen Arreola, a soldier in the US Army part of Honoring our Fallen, kisses her daughter Kiya before the 32nd annual Race on the Base at the Los Alamitos Joint Force base located on Farquhar and Lexington in Los Alamitos, Calif. on February 23 2013. ©KELSEY MARIE WHITE/BROOKS INSTITUTE 2013
  • Visitors of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles enjoy the view of the city while at the same time learning about some of the great history the city and the park have to offer on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. ©Coll Sinclaire/Brooks Institute 2012

Week in Pictures-Week 7 Spring

  • image by Claire Eggers
  • Image by Andrew Davidson Jr.
  • Image by Kelton Woodburn

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  • A man dressed as Santa Claus is seen through the window inside of a Macy's Department Store in New York City, New York on December 15, 2012. He is in line to see Santa Claus at Macy's. (© Joshua Schock 2012)
  • Seth Langenfeld gazes up at the skyscrapers in New York City, New York on December 15, 2012. (© Joshua Schock 2012)
  • A man sits along the pier in Ventura, Calif., on a cold and windy Thursday afternoon, Jan. 10, 2013.(Photo by Robert Curtis/Brooks Institute ©2012)
  • A tulip withers to its death in a vase with little water in Ventura, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (Photo taken by Laura Goutcher / Brooks Institute ©2013)
  • Motocross rider soars through the air at Zaca Station MX in Buelton, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (Photo by Mitch Viquez/Brooks Institute ©2013)
  • Billy Baptist of the Chicago Soldiers reacts at the referee after taking a charge from a LA Lightning player at Cal Lutheran College in Thousand Oaks, California on 10 Jun 2012. The Chicago Soldiers won 117-96 Photo by Michael Lopez_LA Lightning
  • CCS Am Project rider Matt Orona does a frontside boardslide on a bench at a bus stop on East Main Street in Ventura, California on January 18, 2013. (Photo by Kelton Woodburn)

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Week in Pictures – Fall Semester

  • A pidgeon had an unfortunate experience with a fence that lines the Los Angeles River. The fence was razor wired at a few spots along the fence just above the sidewalk. Hip-Hop artist Kid Ink shot a music video on December 2, 2012 in Los Angeles, Calif. The video is for his song "To Hell and Back" the remix featuring another artist named Machine Gun Kelly aka MGK© COPYRIGHT ANDREW DAVIDSON JR 2012
  • While walking down Hoover St in Los Angeles Calif. Joe stops to pose for a portrait and explains " I want to become a purified vessel of the love and light of God, right here, right now. I do. But its tough, I have a challenging history from past lives."  (Photo by Benjamin B. Morris ©2012)
  • MGK poses for a portrait in front of an run-down building. Hip-Hop artist Kid Ink shot a music video on December 2, 2012 in Los Angeles, Calif. The video is for his song "To Hell and Back" the remix featuring another artist named Machine Gun Kelly aka MGK © COPYRIGHT ANDREW DAVIDSON JR 2012
  • David Briceno, guitarist of Ventura band Chill Child, plays his guitar on December 2, 2012 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Kelton Woodburn)
  • Jonathan Pozos does a backside feeble grind in Ventura, California on December 9, 2012. (Photo by Kelton Woodburn).
  • On Friday, October 5, 2012, Ralph Clevenger, a professional photographer and instructor at the Brooks Institute, rests on a cliff in the Alabama Hills near  Lone Pine, CA while enjoying the rising moon and stars. It was Clevenger's last nigh of teaching photography to about two dozen of his students in the Sierra wilderness. (Photo by Victoria Linssen © 2012, 2013)
  • Veteran Brian Wilson poses for a portrait on Veteran's day on November 11, 2012 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Kelton Woodburn)
  • A Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) was hit and lay on the side of the highway by Mono Lake. Deer are the most common animal hit by vehicles. This deer was hit and photographed on October 4, 2012 in Mono County, Calif. Wild.

 

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WIP Week 7

  • Olympic hurdler, Javier Culson, on San Juan, Puerto Rico after a press conference on June 12, 2012. Culson won a silver medal at the World Championships in 2011in the 400 meters, the distance in which he specializes on, and will be competing at London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. (Photo by Erika P. Rodriguez/El Nuevo Dia ©2012)
  • Fighting roosters that died after their respective fights inside a trashcan at the Coliseo Gallistico of Bayamon on June 15, 2012 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The animals are discarded after they die, they can not be consumed due to the antibiotics the cock-fighters give them while in training. (Photo by Erika P. Rodríguez ©2012)
  • Cockfighting at the Coliseo Gallistico of Bayamon on June 15, 2012 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The Caribbean island, where the sport is practiced legally, has over 120 "galleras", cockfighting rings, that are active on a regular basis. The rings get heated during the fights as people bet, or increase their bets, on a rooster while on the fighting ring. (Photo by Erika P. Rodríguez ©2012)
  • "Pelea de Gallos", cockfighting, on June 15, 2012 at the Coliseo Gallistico of Bayamon in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The fights consist of 14-minute rounds where the two fighting roosters, which are matched in the beginning by their weights, attack each other until the other one dies or stops fighting.  (Photo by Erika P. Rodríguez ©2012)
  • A fighting rooster at the display cage after having the spurs bounded to its feet, on the waiting to be put to fight at the Coliseo Gallistico of Bayamon in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. (Photo by Erika P. Rodríguez ©2012)

Week in Pictures Week 12, Spring 2012

Amanda Shaklee sits as her dad shaves her head bald at her house in Oxnard, Calif., on Saturday, March 30, 2012. Amanda is twenty-three years old and was diagnosed with grade 3 breast cancer a month ago. She decided to shave her head because her hair began to fall out do to Chemotherapy. (Photo by Robert Curtis/Brooks Institute (C)2012)

WorkShop Images

  • images taken for the Brooks Institute NPPA Student Chapter Worskshop on Saturday, Mar. 17, 2012   © Evelyn Cervantes 2012
  • images taken for the Brooks Institute NPPA Student Chapter Worskshop on Saturday, Mar. 17, 2012   © Claire Eggers 2012
  • images taken for the Brooks Institute NPPA Student Chapter Worskshop on Saturday, Mar. 17, 2012   © Claire Eggers 2012
  • images taken for the Brooks Institute NPPA Student Chapter Worskshop on Saturday, Mar. 17, 2012   © Claire Eggers 2012
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  • in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 1, 2011. (Photo by Jon Lake©2011)
  • in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 1, 2011. (Photo by Jon Lake©2011)
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NPPA PHOTO WORKSHOP SATURDAY MARCH 17!!! Join Us!!!

On March 17 2012, The Brooks Institute NPPA student chapter will be holding a free photo workshop at the Brooks Institute campus in Ventura. Starting at 8:00am we will meet in the screening room and be given a secret one word theme. Then you will have 4 hours to shoot and edit after which we will all share our work. All digital mediums are welcome (iPhones included), considering that there is a reasonable turn around rate. It’s all in good fun and sharing photos together, but bring you’re game face because there is a possibility of holding a gallery showcasing the best of the best.

Anything goes! The NPPA hopes to see each and every one of you there! So don’t forget 8:00 am to 12:00 pm Saturday, March 17, 2012.
Friends, fellow classmates and alumni are welcome to attend so bring them too!

Week in Pictures Week 6, Spring 2012

  • Aaron Brown, right fielder of the Pepperdine Waves baseball team, makes a sliding catch during a game against the Oklahoma University Sooners on February 18, 2012. The Waves defeated the Sooners 10-0 at their field in Malibu, Calif. (Photo by Andrew Davidson Jr. © 2011)
  • Chinese new year practice in Thousand Oaks on Feb 16th, 2012.  ©Michael Lopez_2011.
  • Hundreds of people come together to participate in a performance for Chinese New Year, at the Fred Kavli Theater in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 18th, 2012. This year is year is the year of the Dragon. Performers wait to enter the stage during the show.
  • Hundreds of people come together to participate in a performance for Chinese New Year, at the Fred Kavli Theater in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 18th, 2012. This year is year is the year of the Dragon.

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