Through Our Eyes – Week 28

Each Thursday, WKU’s Student Chapter of NPPA brings you some of the best images of the past week taken by our very own classmates. To submit for our weekly posts, you must currently be a WKU Photojournalism student and have taken the images or produced the video within the last week (Tuesday to Tuesday). Send your top 1-3 selections to wkunppa@gmail.com by our Tuesday 7:00pm deadline and our officers and attendees will pick the best of the bunch to showcase at our open meetings every Tuesday at 7:30pm in Lab 127.

Ashama Fahtima, 14, poses for a portrait on the back porch of her families home in Bowling Green, Ky. Ossama’s family, originally from Burma, lived in a Thailand refugee camp until she was six years old. The eldest of three girls Ossama is an integral part of her family as she speaks English the most fluently and translates for her parents and most of the Burmese community here in Bowling Green. LUKE FRANKE

A group of volunteers assist an Owensboro high school student athlete after she collapsed crossing the finish line during the Gator Land cross country  meet Saturday, September 27, 2014. ALYSSA POINTER

Ahzerion Carothers, 4, of Bowling Green restlessly waits for his mother, Latrice, to get her hair done at Shake Rag Salon in Bowling Green, Ky. on Thursday, September 25, 2014. Carothers says that Shake Rag Salon is the only place she ever gets her hair done.  DOROTHY EDWARDS

The young fencer Anotonia Chouinard, 9, stand sin the ready position on a play ground on Hospital Hill in Bowling Green Ky. on September 28 2014. Scouinard and her family moved from Montreal in March of 2013 and she started fencing two months ago. She begged her father, a collegiate fencer back in the day, to let her take fencing lessons and is the youngest in fencer in Bowling Green. NIKKI BOLIAUX

Marta Duffer does her daily morning exercise with her dog, Dakota, at the boat ramp of the Barren River, Bowling Green, KY, on Tuesday, Sept. 30. DITTE LYSGAARD HOLM

Jaquelin Ortiz, 9, of Bowling Green, Ky. swings on a tire swing in her front yard on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Ortiz says she spends every Sunday playing with her neighborhood friends Perla and Ali. MORGAN WALKER

Groomsmen of Cody Averbeck, urinate in a wooded section behind All Saints’ Chapel on the University of Sewanee campus in Sewanee, Tenn. The groomsmen went to the woods to see a tree which Cody used to visit on “wild nights” while attending Sewanee. CONNOR CHOATE

Ryan Miller, 15, stands on the banks of the Barren River after he and his friends took a swim. “It’s freezing in September, but we don’t care,” he said. “There’s still snakes in the water over there.” The boys said they usually ride the mountain bike trails, take a swim in the river, and hang out by the boat ramp. ADAM WOLFFBRANDT

Dr. Larry Caillouet, accompanied by his wife,  guides his Sailboat towards its port at the Barren River Lake Yacht Club. Caillouet has sailed for over 25 years. ALYSE YOUNG