{"id":70631,"date":"2013-12-20T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=70631"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:02:36","slug":"nofilter-votes-are-in-for-batesfinals-instagram-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/12\/20\/nofilter-votes-are-in-for-batesfinals-instagram-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates #nofilter: Kozarov &#8217;14, Dunleavy &#8217;15 win #batesfinals Instagram contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77705\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/D2-instagram-Dunleavy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77705\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/D2-instagram-Dunleavy-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Judges' Choice photograph by Avril Dunleavy '15 features fellow alpine racer Kathleen Fitzpatrick '15 posing between runs during a pre-season meet at Sunday River.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/D2-instagram-Dunleavy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/D2-instagram-Dunleavy-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/D2-instagram-Dunleavy-295x393.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/D2-instagram-Dunleavy.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Judges&#8217; Choice photograph by Avril Dunleavy &#8217;15 features fellow alpine racer Kathleen Fitzpatrick &#8217;15 posing between runs during a pre-season meet at Sunday River.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With 395 votes, Jivko Kozarov \u201914 of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, has won the popular prize in Bates\u2019 first-ever finals-themed photography contest.<\/p>\n<p>The aptly titled \u201cBuried in #thesis\u201d depicts Kozarov, an economics major, with his head buried in a stack of senior theses.<\/p>\n<p>He says the shot was a homage to the many hours he spent in the Lindholm Economics Lounge in Pettengill Hall working on his own thesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt isn&#8217;t\u00a0a surprise that I would at times feel buried\u00a0under tons of expectations about my thesis,\u201d he says. \u201cThe photo is a spontaneous metaphor for this creative process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From Dec. 4 through Dec. 11, students were asked to share their finals experiences on Instagram using #batesfinals. The winner, chosen by popular vote on the Bates website, will receive a $50 gift certificate to the College Store.<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 photos were submitted, depicting scenes from deep within Ladd Library, mountains of textbooks and endless coffee \u2014 not to mention several striking post-all-nighter sunrises.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1rAz8VxLJGONdff6qIXdki2vyhWEs_k1f\/view?usp=sharing\">See all submissions for the #batesfinals Instagram contest (Google Drive)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kozarov found inspiration amid the stress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would often skim over someone\u2019s thesis and wonder how Bates managed to shape that person\u2019s global perspective. From niche subjects, such as \u2018Cash Flow and Physical Assets as Determinants of Leverage\u2019 through community topics like \u2018Switching to Biomass for Bates College\u2019 and popular questions \u2014 \u2018Is there a Hot Hand in Basketball?\u2019 \u2014 those seniors have performed with timeless excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Avril Dunleavy \u201915 takes home the Judges\u2019 Choice award for her shot of fellow Bates alpine skier Kathleen Fitzpatrick \u201915 holding her German homework at the top of a slope at Sunday River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a good way to show that we\u2019re student athletes,\u201d says Dunleavy, a rhetoric major and Second\u00a0 Team All-East alpine skier from Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>She photographed Fitzpatrick of Larkspur, Calif., at one of the team\u2019s pre-season meets, held right before the start of finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile everyone else had the opportunity to be studying at school, we had to balance studying and sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunleavy says that \u201ccommunication is key\u201d when working with professors around race schedules and making up exams.<\/p>\n<p>The Judges\u2019 Choice panel included Phyllis Graber Jensen, Bates\u2019 director of photography and video; Sarah Crosby, photography and video fellow; and Tory Stanton, advancement writer and social media editor.<\/p>\n<p>Look for Dunleavy\u2019s photo in the \u201cAmusements\u201d section of the Winter 2014 issue of <i>Bates Magazine<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jivko Kozarov &#8217;14 and Avril Dunleavy &#8217;15 take home the popular vote and Judges&#8217; Choice awards, respectively, in the first-ever #batesfinals Instagram contest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":77705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[44,133,11012],"tags":[10127,10126,7842],"class_list":["post-70631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter","category-creativity","category-student-life","tag-finals","tag-instagram","tag-senior-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70631"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147695,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631\/revisions\/147695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}