Podium shots (photos of people in front of a podium or sitting down at a desk) are essentially the bane of every newspaper photographer’s existence. They are especially an epidemic at the DI newsroom.

This is a picture from a lecture on electronic waste at the iHotel in Champaign. I took a whole bunch of boring podium shots and waited for something interesting to happen, and Willie Cade (the lecturer) helped me out a bit. Here I came out with a decent silhouette. His lecture was actually fairly interesting and he spent a lot of the time on the floor interacting with the audience. Re-cy-cling?