Spring Break 2007

So off she went, to visualize the apartment in Amsterdam and to try and make sense of the country she digs so much.



conductors are entitled to check out their own trains.

Crocuses are in bloom...

A walk in the park.




The Martini Tower in Groningen.
Little girl chasing birds in the shadows of the church.
On the Grote Markt for the first tea of the spring.

Other beverages.Biking after the drawbridge has lowered.

Line?
Cafe Flip (Naomi and Tom)

Modes of transportation.
Billy the ham.


Friesland

Schiphol

guts rehearsal

"listen up everyone, this rehearsal will be awesome. As will those pictures. Especially the pictures of me"

everything is better standing in a circle

Naomi getting tossed about

Swaeske is setting a speed record

Alain has trouble with the stage directions...
... and decides to get up.

Bryn, charming as always

Swaeske, no less charming

Kees finds the whole thing hilarious

Rachel sees the humour of the whole thing, but Alain is skeptical

check yerr notes...

"perhaps," concludes Kees, "this all wasn't as exciting as I had anticipated..."

Battle of the Blues

UNC-Chapel Hill versus Duke University, March 4 2007.

A seemingly evenly matched game trumped up by a decades-long rivalry. In lieu of my Canon Digital Rebel XTi, I brought along my trusty Olympus D-580 Zoom and tried to capture the peripherals of the game: ESPN got the newsworthy stuff.



En route to the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill



Players, managers, coaches and ball boys mill around the court before the fans arrive.



Reyshawn Terry, a senior from Winston Salem, stands still for just a moment during pre-game practice.



Post-dunk



Several generations look for their seats



Concessions



Elvis is preoccupied.



Tyler Hansbrough, sophomore star of Carolina's team, cuts a piece of the net after the Tar Heels won the game and he received a ghastly bloodied nose. All eyes have been on him since he set foot on Carolina's court last year as a freshman, and he is infamous for receiving a relentless rain of rough fouls in every game.

If this is the beginning of March Madness, we may all need to be committed by April.

black and white

these are some pictures I took before I got my digital SLR...











these two were taken at the HT-rowing race...














I was going for a kindof Beken of Cowes tribute...













this is my friend HJ reading a brochure while sitting on a bench in Barcelona














at the beach of Barcelona...















two friends, and Gaudi's cathedral in the background

Since Traci set it up...

... she's laying claim to the first substantial post!
(Elger can feel free to fight her for it, but Traci would like to remind him that she has calves that have killed lesser men.)



Step Afrika! at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro on March 2, 2007



"Pledgies" for Chi Rho, daydreaming about their fly Greek shirts and the subsequent pairs of panties that will be thrown at them.



Proving their worth through step.



In this segment of the show, several volunteers from the audience are selected to come on stage and be taught how to step. Fun and smiles with a variety of meanings behind them abounded.



A preacher prepares to pull on his African gum boots and dance to "Deep River" and "Wade in the Water" in a performance where Step Afrika combines traditional Southern spirituals with the power of step.









South African mine workers in their gum boots, chanting and stomping in a fleeting moment outside the mines.





"Is that your girlfriend over there? Perhaps if you dance for her, she will think you are HOT."
"Yes, yes! She will think you are sex-see."





The troupe prepares for one final dance, this time in modern stepping style.





(For more information on Step Afrika, see www.stepafrika.org)