Derek in the paper

Senior Derek Ahlberg plans to exhibit a pencil drawing that re-creates a photo from National Geographic as well as an acrylic painting recalling a camping experience.

“Every fall, I go on a camping trip with some friends up to the Redwood Falls area,” he explained. “We always go biking, and there’s this big hill we call ‘Killer Hill’ … and when you get to the top of it, this is what you see.”

But Ahlberg’s medium of choice is photography — he has been accepted to study that art form at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has entered a favorite photo in a student exhibit at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., which also opens Friday.

This is a clipping from the front page of The Daily Globe in Worthington about Derek in the art show. He had to redo his photo because someone took it at school.