Single: Victoria Cyclist

John Klemczyk, 47, of Victoria, rides his bike through Riverside Park in Victoria, Texas on Sept. 19, 2013. Klemczyk has packed his year with the Houston Marathon, Iron Man, climbing Mount Rainier and riding the route of the 100th anniversary of the Tour de France. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Victoria Advocate | September 27, 2013

Custom Guitar Pedals: Victoria Advocate (multimedia)

Victoria Advocate | September 24, 2013

Zionist Church: Victoria Advocate

Last week I had the opportunity to photograph the Crossroads region's only Christian Zionist church as they celebrated their three year anniversary.

Here are a few shots from their Saturday and Sunday services:

Life Impact Church on Port Lavaca Highway is a Christian Zionist church, meaning they observe Jewish tradition within Christianity. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Dylan Harmon, 19, of Victoria, listens to a sermon with his 6-month-old son, Luke, at the Life Impact Church in Victoria. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Life Impact's licensed minister, Janice Vargas, of Victoria, reads scripture at the church in Victoria. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Noe Martinez, center, of Victoria, listens to a sermon at the Life Impact Church in Victoria. "We read a lot of the Old Testament," Martinez said, "I like the unity we have here." (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

The Rev. Raymond Vargas, of Victoria, delivers a sermon at Life Impact Church in Victoria. "We are a nondenominational church, a free chapel," Vargas said, "My main goal as a pastor is to produce great citizens here." (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

The Rev. Raymond Vargas, of Victoria, wears a tallit, a traditional Jewish prayer shawl, with embroidered Hebrew scripture at the Life Impact Church in Victoria. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Sam Moasky Johnson, of Goliad, blows into a shofar at the Life Impact Church in Victoria. "They are so receptive of the Jewish faith here," Johnson said. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Ron Chambers, center, of Victoria, reads scripture with his sons Nicholas, 13, left, and Joshua, 9, right, at the Life Impact Church in Victoria. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

A churchgoer listens to a sermon at the Life Impact Church in Victoria. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Single: Rain Delay

When it rains in Texas, it rains hard in Texas...

Hard enough to completely cancel the religious spectacle that is Friday night high school football. Friday night's game at Memorial Stadium in Victoria, Texas was the first I've covered for the Victoria Advocate, a newspaper I'm currently here completing a multimedia internship with.

I was expecting a pretty standard evening of shooting-- grab the first half, then transmit at halftime before heading back to the newsroom-- but the story quickly changed when lightning, thunder and a torrential downpour roared into the area and forced a cancellation of not only the game I was at, but also every other game going on that evening within the paper's coverage area.

In short, the story was no longer football, it was weather. I snagged this photo before scampering back to the press box to dry out:

Victoria East High School cheerleaders, from left, Anna-Ashley Spence, Kirsten Click and Sydney Warner huddle together in the rain at Memorial Stadium in Victoria, Texas on Sept. 20, 2013. Heavy rain and lightning would eventually cancel the game between Victoria East and CC King midway through the first quarter. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Victoria Advocate | September 21, 2013

Single: Tukwila First Generation Youth

Here's a frame from a recent afternoon photographing for writer Yodit Gaim's essay in The Seattle Globalist on growing up in a community of first generation youth.

To read the story and see a few more shots click on the photo below:

From left; first generation Samoan youth Roselle Savea, Naiasolagi Ulusago, Nathan Taupau and Evangeline Taupau take a break from waving at cars for a carwash to benefit the Aso Fitu Samoa Church on the sidewalk of International Boulevard on June 16, 2013 in Tukwila, Wash.

Immigration Reform March

Here are a few frames from the 2013 May Day Immigration March in Seattle, Wash.

For more photos and an interview with El Comité President Jorge Quiroga, see the previous blog post.

 

May Day: Seattle Globalist

Another May Day is in the books. This year I took a different approach to covering the event-- instead opting for an interview with El Comité President Jorge Quiroga.

He's been around the block to say the least; imprisoned for nearly 4 years without charge in Argentina, immigrated to the U.S. with no English experience and now serves as a major voice for immigration reform.

Click the tearsheet below to read a transcript of my conversation with Quiroga. Photos from the day embedded throughout the article: