January 1, 2012 — A White New Year

Jan. 1, 2012, Minneapolis -- A man lays down in the snow to take a picture of his custom bicycle in Loring Park near downtown Minneapolis, Minn. on the evening of Jan. 1, 2012. After a unseasonably warm December, mother nature took a cold turn on New Year's Eve, dropping 10 degrees, an inch of snow and blowing wind gusts up to 35 mph through New Year's Day, according to the National Weather Service.

In­spired my by friend Heather By­ing­ton’s 365 project, I have de­cid­ed to do my own pho­­to-a-day project. I will be ex­plor­ing as many as­pects of pho­to­jour­nal­ism as I can over the course of the year. Since it was so cold to­day af­ter be­ing warm in De­cem­ber, I knew I want­ed some­thing show­ing the cold and I… Con­tin­ue read­ing Jan­u­ary 1, 2012 — A White New Year

Featured Photo: December 6, 2011

Augsburg goalie Brianna Schulz was powerless to stop No. 7 Gustavus's potent offense including this goal by Mollie Carroll (left) in the third period of a NCAA Div. III women's hockey between Augsburg vs. Gustavus Adolphus. Gustavus won the contest 9-0, including 4 goals scored by forward Allie Schwab (not shown). (Caleb Williams/d3photography.com)

Be­low is a pho­to from this week­end. Un­like the last blog, this is wom­en’s ice hock­ey be­tween Augs­burg and Gus­tavus. The game was a score-fest, with Gus­tavus notch­ing a 9–0 win.