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Fish Feech

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Alex Schwarz, freshman in Engineering, does classwork for Calculus near the aquarium at the Illini Union on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. He chose to do work at the Union because “I’m between classes right now and didn’t want to go back all the way to the dorm,” he said. (Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini)

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September 24, 2010 at 10:48 am

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9/11 Portraits

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New York City native Professor Philip Graham volunteered time after the September 11 attacks working in a not-for-profit restaurant serving recovery and clean up workers at Ground Zero. He now writes fiction based on the attacks. (Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini)

Sanna Stegmaier, an exchange student from the University of Vienna, is focusing her thesis on the differences between American and European literature after 9/11. (Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini)

For Friday’s DI, I took a pair of portraits of people that had some academic involvement with September 11.

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September 11, 2010 at 9:00 am

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The Decisive Moment

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Since I went to the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago last weekend, I think I would be a appropriate to post a photo heavily infulenced by HCB I took last October. If I can remember right, I took this as a feature photo to prove to my staff that you can find a feech anywhere anytime.

This was my inspiration

Image Copyright Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini Oct. 12, 2009

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September 9, 2010 at 8:36 pm

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Hands on

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Bill Brady, Republican gubernatorial candidate, gestures during a press conference in Champaign, Ill. on Tuesday, August 31, 2010. (Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini)

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September 1, 2010 at 10:52 am

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Bus Routes

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Passengers get off a 22N Illini bus at the Illini Union stop on Green Street in Urbana on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. (Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini)

I finally get a photo that emulates the street photography of a large urban city like Chicago that has great light play and it gets squeezed into a 2 column space. People just didn’t get it. :/

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August 26, 2010 at 9:41 am

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