The Pacific Northwest Yo-yo Championship

Charles Haycock

Daniel Dietz

2nd place 1A

Joseph Harris

Michael Kurti

Hugh Higinbotham

Paul Dang

Nate Dewitt

Bryan Figueroa- four time regional champion

Honest Emotion in Chinatown

For this assignment I went to the annual Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival. This is the year of the Rabbit, which in the Chinese zodiac means a good time to approach things calmly and without force. Expecting mothers can look forward to keen, wise, fragile, tranquil, serene, considerate, fashionable, and kind offspring. Happy New Year!

dragon dancer makes friends

Environmental Portrait

 Rita Smith,78, looks out from her porch facing Birchwood Elementary. These giant hearts replaced Styrofoam snowmen and will surely become glittery shamrocks by March, as they have for the last 18 years. "Everyone expects it now," Smith says. "I guess I do it for the kids," she added as she reluctantly posed for another shot, "The things I do for students."

Breaking the Ice

For this assignment I shot six different people with six different answers to the same question; "Can you tell me about a time when you felt happy?"

Brett Gifford, 22, "Sitting on a beach in Barcelona with a beer."

Salomon Schneyer, 90, "At my age, just being alive."

Joyce Nicolsen, 52, "I came out and it wasn't raining. That was pretty good."

Kiki Denower, 21, "My first poem."