Evan’s Blog

This week, for our photojournalism assignment, we were instructed to choose one subject/event and come away having photographed a wide, medium, and close-up of our chosen subject. I found my self with several photographic opportunities this week and it came down to what to choose to fulfill the assignment (I may post the other photographs in a separate blog post.) For the assignment, I chose the impromptu photoshoot of the LBCC greenhouse and Alex Loveday’s personal project of cultivating varieties of strawberries.  I ran into Alex at the American Association for Woman in Community Colleges’ (AAWCC) Earth Week booth, on the LBCC Albany Campus. In honor of Earth Week, the AAWCC was giving away potted plants, flower seeds, and baby Douglas fir trees. Alex and I were both there to get plants (I was also there for photos.) Alex and I shared a former class together and so we recognized each other and got to chatting. Alex mentioned he worked in the green house and invited me to the Inte...

Local band, The Flatt Stanley Incident performs at Common Fields in Corvallis, Oregon on Thursday, April 14, 2023. Band members are: Rob Pugliese - Mandolin (left), Ron Green - standup bass (center), and Steve Martin - Guitar (right.) The Flatt Stanley Incident plays a mix of original songs and covers of classic rock and americana, all with their own folk music flavor.  Common fields is a food cart court and tap house located downtown Corvallis on the corner of 3rd and Western; they currently host food trucks serving Greek, El Salvadorian, and German cuisine and have16 taps featuring local beers and ciders. It is a family friendly venue with a designated kid play area and live music every Wednesday and Thursday evening.  LBCC Albany campus. “Are You Awesome” sandwich-board inviting students to join the LBCC music and choir programs. LBCC Music Program has multiple choral groups whose members include students from every major. Students can also aud...

Hello and welcome. My name is Evan Finley and this is the inaugural post for this platform that will be used to document and share what I am seeing and learning as I go through the photojournalism course at Linn Benton Community College (LBCC.) First, lets start with a bit about me: I am a born-’n-raised Oregonian; I have always called somewhere in the Willamette Valley home. I consider my self blessed to grow up in such a beautiful place with divers geographies in a relatively compressed area. Ever since I was a kid, I dreamt of being a photographer. I used to flip through National Geographic’s for hours and pore over the photos. I was drawn to the idea of traveling to far off places and learning about the strange, exciting, and different. I have done a fair bit of traveling and I have taken many thousands of photos, but I think I have always been more of a picture taker, than a picture sharer--the latter is a skill that I am continuing to work on and grow in.  The Taj Mahal,...

 Captions coming soon... Student walking past the “Starry Peak” mural on LBCC Albany campus. Jonah, Writing a customer’s name on a coffee cup at Roast Runners,  the coffee shop on LBCC’s Albany Campus. Early to photojournalism class.