You may have seen awesome student life pictures of your friends on D-TV lately. Well, many of those were taken by your peers in the Photography Club. The Photography Club is lead by the Multimedia teacher, Mrs. Milanovich. She leaves a lot of artistic leeway for her students. When asked about their assignments, members claimed they don’t really have any set assignments, but get to work on whatever they think best suits their strengths and what will help them improve their weaknesses, allowing them to grow as artists. Although I love seeing what students do in school and what they work on, I find that if they are really passionate about it, they will take steps even further outside of our walls to expand themselves. Two people I found that are overly enthusiastic about what they are doing are Sophia Rosati and Colton Costello. Colton Costello is among the coolest underclassmen to ever grace this building. On top of that, he is the most talented photographer I’ve ever met. I was unaware of Costello’s passion until recently when I found some of his work on Flickr. His shots are taken in strange locations, like abandoned old buildings or junkyards. They have symbolism that flows throughout all of his work, and his color alterations give a unique and eerie feeling to his art. Did I mention that he dresses up in a gas mask when he shoots his pictures? Epicness, fo sho. Costello shoots all of his work on a Fuji Film Camera, but is hoping to invest in a new Nikon D-60 to take his pictures to the next level. He began his work a long time ago, but he recently started going hardcore about two years ago. He claimes he can’t quit, “It’s like a drug.” Well I’m getting addicted to hiss work as well. If you’re walking down the hallway and you see this ridiculously beautiful girl with a camera hanging down from her neck and she randomly takes your picture, that would be Sophia Rosati, aka Phia Phantastic. She takes her camera with her everywhere she goes, or she has the school’s camera taking pictures for D-TV, the Yearbook, or the FHS Press. Taking pictures is one thing that makes her happy. You can tell by the way she’s always smiling as she’s holding up her camera, or how she giggles when she gets a good shot. It makes her day, “I tried forever to get a picture of someone smiling. I was having the most horrible day ever until I got behind my camera,” she stated in one of her captions on Flickr. Rosati started taking pictures last year, and in that time has accumulated hundreds, if not thousands of pictures on Myspace and Flickr. She shoots most of her work on a Cannon Powershot As90. She enjoys taking posed shots, and shots of nature. She may be the only one on the planet who can take a picture of Freedom, PA and make it look like heaven. She does have some help though. She loves to mess with color balances in Photoshop CS 3 to give her work a unique effect. I think that Freedom at its finest is not when students are forced to do things at school, but when they choose to hone their skills when they leave the confines of our school. These two students emulate creativity and artistic talent. Find their work on Myspace or Flickr. You won’t be disappointed.