Photo Gallery of Free Resources for TLP: On-Campus

I've noticed that it's hard to get pictures of Laramie sights and places that you can actually use for things, like teaching and editorial purposes. Most of the useful or high quality pictures, even on Flickr, are protected by full copyright, and if you're like me, you probably don't like violating the law on those things even if the current intellectual property laws in the US are egregiously stupid.

This page aims to fix that deficit. The pictures you see here are all available from Flickr under a Creative Commons copyright with very flexible terms, and most of them (probably all at this point) are mine. Feel free to use them for any editorial or educational use you'd like, including for composition work, posters or whatever. I hope they help to fill in a little bit of detail about Laramie, the university, and Wyoming in general. And I hope they show them in a good light.

I've tried to include pictures of the town, the college, places/things mentioned in The Laramie Project and Ten Years Later: an Epilogue. Landscape plays an important theme in both plays, so I've added a little bit of that, too, with pics of the surrounding prairie.

I don't put many editorial restrictions on my photos, but I would ask that you use the photos of the Shepard memorial respectfully. There's no reason to flame that kid innocently using a bench for what it's designed to do. That's it!

To download any picture, just click on it, and the link will take you to the Flickr page where you can choose the size you want by clicking on the magnifying glass above each picture. Most of these are available up to a whopping 4752 x 3168.

Enjoy!

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Pictures of the UW campus:

The sign to the main part of campus, not far from the student union.

The same place, this time covered in snow.

Old Main, the original college building, dappled in evening shadow.

It may be the prettiest building on campus.

A close-up of the front.

The Laramie campus, with a candid shot of a fellow studying. 

Prexy's Pasture, the center of campus.

Prexy's in winter.

Flags for nation, state and college, and a closeup of one of the freshman dorms-- White Hall.  

It's also (still, I think) the tallest building in the state. 

Dick Cheney Plaza and International center. Yes, that Dick Cheney...

It's prettier in the snow, I think. 

The Classroom Building (the slide projector-looking thing) flanked by the Biological and Physical Science buildings.  

The Arts and Sciences Building, on the west end of Prexy's Pasture.

 

A&S from across Prexy's.

The memorial bench for Matthew Shepard, on the plaza in front of Arts and Sciences.

Here's somebody using the bench. 

He happened to sit down just as I was photographing A&S, to his left.

Here's a close-up of the plaque so you can read the inscription.

Yeah, we complain about easterners playing up the "Wild West" persona, but we do it, too.

This is a statue in front of the Alumni building on campus.

And a statue of Chief Washakie, namesake of Washakie Cafeteria.

A picture of some of the dorms, Downey and Orr.

St. Paul's Newman Center, the home for UW's Catholic community. 

This was the location for the candlelight vigil, and it was home to Father Roger until 2001 or so. 

A lot of the Catholic profs are very active here, and they were a huge positive influence for me in college.

Since every college seems defined by its sporting activities, here's War Memorial Stadium.

The Student Union, and the engineering hall.

The Student Union in winter, wrapped in snow. 

Winter scenes, west of the Student Union. Remember that a lot of this natural scenery popped up about 4-5 years after TLP came out...