January in Review

Welcome to "In Review," a series where we look at the previous month's best and favorite images taken by the photography team at West Virginia University.

January photography, like December, is dominated by basketball — for a bit, at least. Just as commencement marks the end of the fall journey, though, students returning from break signal a new year and a new semester.

This January, when we weren't in the Coliseum, we were out photographing a blanket of snow, students in classrooms, promotional images for the upcoming baseball season, and everything else happening around campus.

Let's take a look at what we saw through our lenses — kicking things off with snowy scenes near Woodburn Circle.

Snow Globe

Hoop Dreams

Back to School

Campus Scenes

On Deck

One of the things we often shoot, that we haven't shared much of in this space, are the promotional images used in the athletic department.

Before each season, football excluded, we get together with each team's athletes to shoot new headshots, action images and an array of poses used by the athletics graphics and marketing teams to promote anything they need to: Ticket sales, games, rosters, lineups, posters, birthdays, etc.

We're going to dive further in-depth with this in an upcoming Magazine piece, but we'll finish January's review with an image of Major League Baseball's projected No. 1 draft pick, JJ Wetherholt.

These photo stories will run each month with a look at the previous 28 to 31 days' work. The format may evolve with each month, but the goal will always be to connect alumni, students and fans of West Virginia with what is happening on, and around, campus through our photography staff's lenses.

We'll see you soon for a look back at February.

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