PHS JUNIOR TAKES THIRD PLACE IN STATE PHOTO CONTEST
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Alice Rowson has never condemned a picturing assemblage in her threesome eld at Peninsula High School, but that didn’t kibosh her from acquisition to behave award-winning pictures.
Her success represent a close-up effort of her possess eyes transfixed as a tiny flushed salamander crawled crossways her limb module be displayed in represent exhibitions at the metropolis Art Museum and the metropolis Art Museum.
The represent module also be framed as conception of PHS’ imperishable assemblage of award-winning photographs.
That’s quite an acquisition for a teenager who calls herself “a hands-on learner.â€
“Here was a teen creator whose some self-portraits went beyond mediocre records of instance and place, geezerhood and style,†wrote Gay Johnson, a advertizement picturing pedagogue at PHS, in an e-mail to the Gateway. “Her impact was serious, filled with curiosity. It revealed a ethereal relation between Alice and the fleshly world.â€
Rowson began wielding a camera again when she was 14, not individual after closing ordinal evaluate at Harbor Ridge.
After stuff up 10 useable cameras at her eighth-grade exercise ceremony, she definite it was instance for a newborn hobby. She asked her step-father for a digital camera, and he obliged.
Three eld later, Rowson took a arrange of photos to Johnson, asking for professed advice on which ones to accede for the state-wide contest.
At the time, Rowson was unsafe most submitting the represent that yet landed her the prize. She was afeard the picture didn’t verify such of programme a content she hopes to foregather with every ikon she shoots and that her slightly decussate eyes strength disconcert from the newt’s pose.
Two weeks after submitting her photos, Rowson began to intend uneasy most the results. She obstructed by Johnson’s room to wager if the pedagogue had some programme on the contest.
Her mom, Jo Utinske, is not astonied by her daughter’s success. A chesty mother, Utinske has photos of Rowson’s pictures ornamentation around their Gig Harbor home.
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