Category: News
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Critter Picks: Vote for Your Favorite
Who’s a good boy? Students in COMM 13616 News Photography captured their favorite animal (or arachnid in one case) and paid extra attention to composure for this assignment. Now, we need you to vote on your favorite. How to vote:• Browse all 16 photos in the gallery• Each photo is labeled with a letter (A–P)•…
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SPC Cosmetology students master the art of braiding
Photos by Paxton Crist-Hovley, News Photography COMM 1316 Tight braids. Steady hands. Zero shortcuts. Braiding is part of the curriculum for students enrolled in cosmetology at SPC. “The students spend a week in their second semester learning about braiding and braid extensions,” says Kristin Reichelt, cosmetology program coordinator and assistant professor. She says there are…
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Produce power: SPC students create a fresh take on physics
Photos by Peyton Thomas, News Photography COMM 1316 Who knew the humble potato could be a physics lab’s most valuable player? Students in Kim Bouldin’s PHYS 1402 General Physics 2 lab discovered just that recently, using spuds and fruit to generate real electricity. Bouldin says students were learning about simple circuits and something called Ohm’s…
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Snap judgment: Is photography worth it as a side hustle?
Photos from Clay Patton, News Photography COMM 1316 and Jarrett Wideman, Commercial Music student. Featured photo by Clay Patton. You already own a camera. And you’re a good photographer. All your friends say so. You’ve even taken a lot of photos outside, or at sporting events or weddings. So, should you make photography a side…
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Picture this: Spooky Science Fest 2026
Photos from Kamryn Collins and Kassandra Martinez, News Photography COMM 1316. Featured photo by Kamryn Collins. Dozens of activities, many of them offering something gooey, “icky”, or scary, were on display at this year’s Spooky Science Fest. Two-legged, four-legged, and some no-legged creatures gathered for the fun in 20 stations spread across the lobby and…
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Boo-tiful entries: SPC Halloween door contest entries
Photos from students in News Photography, COMM 1316, featured photo by Denver Atkins This year’s theme is Ghosts. News photography students scurried around campus today looking for as many door contest entries they could find. They had to hurry because the winners will be announced tomorrow. We’re sorry if we missed a few. Happy haunting!
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Picture this: Finding fall
Photos from students in News Photography, COMM 1316. Featured photo by Clay Patton. For weeks, news photography students have been looking for fall. They took their cameras with them in all different directions. Here’s how they captured images of the season.
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Picture this: Pleasing patterns
Photos from students in News Photography, COMM 1316. Featured photo by Denver Atkins. Lines, shapes, and repetition are all important parts of photo composition. Repeating shapes, colors, or lines can all create patterns. Why are they important? Patterns catch a viewer’s eye, create a sense of harmony, and sometimes guide a viewer’s gaze. They might…
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New pool, new workout: SPC water aerobics classes
Photos by Denver Atkins and Rodolfo Martinez, News Photography COMM 1316. Featured photo by Denver Atkins. SPC’s new Aquatic Center opened this semester and already it’s making a splash with students. We recently found a dozen or so students who traded in the treadmill for a hydro hustle in water aerobics class. “The idea of…
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What does your dog see?
Photos from students in News Photography COMM 1316. Featured photo by Camila Platas, Photography 1, Spring 2022 The world looks a little different from a dog’s eye view. News photography students recently found that to be true using their cameras. Their assignment: Shoot something a dog might see from down low off the ground. The…
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From mud to masterpiece: SPC ceramics class in action
Photos from Jolie Perry, News Photography COMM 1316 Getting dirty appears to be part of the assignment in ceramics class. Here, students turn lumps of clay into pieces of art. This class is a combination of Ceramics 1 and 2. SPC Professor of Art Kara Donatelli says, on this day, several students were finishing lidded…
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A cut above the rest: SPC culinary students learn to prepare meat
Photos by Peyton Thomas, News Photography COMM 1316 With sharp knives and steady nerves, students in the Culinary Arts program recently went to work on beef and chicken. The class is called IFWA 1319 Meat Identifying & Processing. It’s a three-hour class listed on the Culinary Arts degree plan for the third semester. SPC Executive…
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Bokeh Boo: Spooky season in soft focus
Photos from students in News Photography COMM 1316. Featured photo by Elias Gomez. Who says Halloween has to be sharp? These photos show the spookiest of lights may be ones out of focus. Students recently set up a photo shoot to practice Bokeh. Derived from the Japanese word “boke” meaning “blur” or “haze”, Bokeh in…
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Take a seat, take a breath: Free massage chairs available at Health & Wellness
Photos from Elias Gomez, News Photography COMM 1316 It looks like a tough job. But then someone had to volunteer to show how these massage chairs work. D’Liesa Burleson, the SPC administrative assistant in Health & Wellness on the Levelland campus, looked happy to help. There are two massage chairs tucked inside the relaxation room…
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Oak overload: Professor explains the surge in acorns
Photos from students in News Photography COMM 1316. Featured photo by Kassandra Martinez. It appears to be a bumper crop. Hundreds of acorns are hanging and falling from the big oak tree outside the Communications/English building on the Levelland campus. Last year, that was not the case. SPC Associate Professor Kristin Bingham, who teaches botany,…
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Farm & Ranch: And the winners are….
Voting was close this semester. But the results are in. You chose your first, second, and third favorite Farm and Ranch photos from News Photography, COMM 1316. And, because the numbers were so close, we also have one honorable mention. All of the photos deserve name credit because they all did a great job.Here is…
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Long exposures, longer imagination: Painting with light
Photos from students in News Photography, COMM 1316. Featured photo by Paxton Crist-Hovley. Photography students recently put their “bright ideas” to the test with their light painting project. Light “painting” is all about leaving a camera’s shutter open long enough for a light source to streak across the front of the camera’s lens. It’s not …
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Bouncing light, capturing selves: A lesson in outdoor lighting
Photos from Myla Wagoner, News Photography COMM 1316 Students in News Photography, COMM 1316, recently tackled snapping portraits of each other in the blazing morning sun. Their instructions: Their challenge: Use a round light reflector ring to capture the sun and bounce it back onto the face of the person being photographed. The reflectors have…
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Farm & Ranch: Vote for your favorite!
Photos from students in News Photography COMM 1316 Once again, SPC photography students took their cameras to find captivating images of the farm and ranch world around them. They didn’t have to go far to find them. We’ve gathered their best work, and please vote for your favorite! Enjoy. Results will be published soon.
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In pictures: SPC Lady Texan basketball tips off pre-season
Photos from students in News Photography, COMM 1316. Featured photo by Denver Atkins/COMM 1316 The season doesn’t start with a game. It starts on the practice court. And weekday mornings that’s where you’ll find the Lady Texans in their pre-season workouts. SPC Head Women’s Basketball Coach Ara Baten says he has been very encouraged this…