Day 217/365

     Today was a super quiet one work-wise, although I was officially offered an extension on my internship, so I will be in Saginaw until June! It's a big relief. I love my job and I work with some great people, so I'm really glad I get to stay longer. 

     Anyways, before I was on shift, I took Kip for a walk around the apartment complex and took a quick photo of the steadily-growing ground covering of leaves. Quite a few are still hanging in there on the trees, and have started turning this fantastic golden color; it's quite pretty. Today was mostly sunny, until right before our walk it let loose for about fifteen minutes and then abruptly stopped, leaving huge puddles on the easily-flooded sidewalks by my building. 

Day 115/365

     I can now say I've seen a cage fight in person... not sure how I feel about that exactly. The whole experience was a bit surreal. It was going on at a town festival I was covering too, which, to me, seems insane. Carnival rides, novelty food, games and prizes.... and cage fighting? I don't get it. Nevertheless, it was interesting, and the fact that I'm being paid to photograph things like this that I've never seen before makes me indescribably happy. 

Day 103/365

     Today's post is a closeup of a light fixture in the old Plaza Hotel here in Saginaw, Michigan. I was assigned to cover the clearing-out of the hotel today, since it's set to be demolished sometime within the next month. It was surreal being in the hotel today; it seemed like the last people to be in it had just dropped everything and left in a hurry. There was still water in the pool, martini glasses sitting on the bar, and other things like that. If you're interested in seeing the photos that got into the published story, or would like to read the article that went with them, you find all of that here. Barring any crazy amount of breaking news this weekend: I have tomorrow and Sunday off, which will be spent moving my things into my apartment at last... and probably catching up on the sleep I've missed out on these past three weeks between road-tripping and starting my internship!

Day 102/365

     Today's post is from a food giveaway that a local group up here in Michigan organized. A bunch of volunteers got together in this hot 100º day to give food donations to the under-privilidged. 800-900 people were estimated to have received the donations, and cars were lining up as early as six o'clock this morning - five hours before the giveaway started. To see the article that I shot the photos for, written by another intern, you can go here.