The new student photo series continues to turn out great shots.  If you have sent photos, thank you and we will work on posting.  If  you have yet to send photos see this entry for details.

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Hi, my name is Nicolas Zaharya, from Argentina. I am an incoming student for the MPA-DP.

This is me, enjoying lake Nahuel-Huapi in Bariloche, an Argentina city by the Andes. The water is so clean and transparent but its also sooo cold!

Sun rise on the atlantic ocean in the city of Mar del Plata. They were building a new quay.

Children enjoying a new water conection in Lomas, a neighborhood on the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the most populated area in the country. They have been doing some impresive work extending water pipes for almost 1 million people.

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The following three shots were submitted by Debi Spindelman, an incoming MPA-DP student.

Shot with my 35mm fisheye camera in Ao Thong Nai Pan Yai on the island of Ko Phangan in the Gulf of Thailand. Longtail boats are a tourist photo staple, but the fisheye lens and some truly wild film helped capture the frenetic color of the islands in this region.

Shot with my D-SLR at Daraja Academy outside Nanyuki, Kenya. Last fall, I taught photography and creative writing to 52 young women of promise in Kenya’s first free all-girls secondary school. Part participatory research project and part creative project, I captured this shot of Form 1 students at an early-morning flag-raising ceremony as they shared a new song they had been learning. For images and words created by Daraja students through this project, check out www.OutsideTheLensatDaraja.blogspot.com.

Shot with my 35mm fisheye and waterproof housing at Pipes surf spot, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA. It’s easy to forget the glamour available domestically, and this was shot a few hundred yards from my house. I competed in surfing regularly for years, and am slowly selling off boards in anticipation of the surf-hiatus happening over the next two years.

The new student photo series continues again today.  If you have sent photos, thank you and we will work on posting.  If  you have yet to send photos see this entry for details.

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Hi, my name is Carly Roberts and I’m an incoming MPA student.

French Music Critic: I took this photo in Nice, France last summer. This little girl was fascinated by the street musicians; she alternated between looking quizzically at them and dancing to the music.

Tokyo Blur: This photo was taken in a busy train station in Tokyo, Japan. As I stood still for the long exposure, all the locals hurrying past looked at me like I was crazy!

Capital Funk: Most people are surprised when I tell them that I’m part of an award-winning hip hop dance crew! I’ve danced with Capital Funk in Washington DC for 6 years (you can look us up on youtube, we’re pretty awesome!)… that’s me to the right of center on the floor, in the yellow jacket.

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Anne Yalkabova, an incoming MIA student interested in International Security Policy, submitted the following pictures.

The photo is taken in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the ancient Basilica Cistern.

Below is the Sophia, Greek goddess of wisdom.  The photo was taken among ruins of ancient Ephesus, Turkey.

Incoming MIA student Paul Hersh sent along the following photos for posting.  Enjoy.

“Vietnam – Ha Long Bay” – A lonely fisherman in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

“Syria – Aleppo – Umayyad Mosque” – Inside the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo, Syria.

“Cambodia – Phnom Penh – Tuol Sleng” – Building A of Tuol Sleng, with large cells in which the bodies of the last victims were discovered. The photos on the wall are how the rooms were found, with the mutilated body of a prisoner chained to the bed, killed by his fleeing captors only hours before the prison was captured.  Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, was a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.

My name is Ana Berenguer, an incoming MPA student, and I would like to share some pictures with you:

I took these two pictures in December 2010 at one of the student contests organized by the Foundation that I manage. The student with the highest score of a multiple choice exam on History represents their school in the second phase of the Spanish Heritage History Bee, consisting of an oral examination with a panel of judges responsible for asking the oral questions until a winner is selected.  We prepared amazing awards such as an airline ticket to take a class on Spanish culture in Salamanca (Spain) during the summer of 2011….You may understand now the happiness of Miranda, the winner of Elementary, and the big nervous of Santino.

This is a great phone pic of Miami way of life: my little boy at the pool the day he turned 5 months, only a few days ago.

I would say the best thing about Miami is its great location: only 2 hours and ½ flight far from great places such as Chicago, Mexico, Colombia…and 5 hours to one of my long dreamed trips: Peru. I took this picture at Matchu Pichu on November 2009, after 5 hard days of Inca Trail. Get away from my camera you curious llama!