Portrait

"The countenance is the portrait of the mind,

the eyes are its informers."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Environmental Portrait

Carly Cloud, TCU senior nursing major, celebrated the Colorado blizzard "Texas style" by posing for Kaia Naftel in Fort Worth on February 24, 2013. (TCU Photo/Kaia Naftel)

Photojournalist and TCU professor, Robert Hart, gave the assignment to shoot an environmental portrait. An active weekend filled with Fort Worth Cowtown marathon madness, National Margarita day festivities, and Oscar awards, I was fortunate enough to be graced by Carly Cloud's presence for the portrait shoot. Using ISO 100, I proceeded to take a number of photographs of beautiful miss Cloud.

Carly is a vibrant and dedicated TCU nursing student hailing from beautiful Colorado. I share her love and desire for the adventure and adrenaline supplying snowboarding sport. On Sunday, February 24, as a blizzard touched down in the mountainous Colorado skies, Carly was in Fort Wort celebrating the frosted land from afar. She displayed her love for snowboarding in the following images.

TCU student, Carly Cloud, an avid snowboarder sits on a Fort Worth curb wishing she was in Colorado taking advantage of the snow storm on Sunday, February 24, 2013. (TCU Photo/Kaia Naftel)

Carly Cloud, a "Coloradian" with a magnetic personality, is captured on February 24, 2013 near her college duplex in Fort Worth, Texas. Her kind hearted yet adventurous soul is mirrored in her facial expressions and compelling gaze.

Adventure junkie, Carly Cloud, poses with her snowboard on February 24, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas, near a beautiful rock wall entrance on Wayside Avenue.