36 Hours in Columbia

A high dynamic range composition of six separate exposures taken at 6:58 a.m. at the intersection of Hitt Street and Broadway Blvd in downtown Columbia, Mo. on the morning of Friday, Oct. 12, 2007.   ¦  Ryan Gibbons

Like most of what we do at the Missourian, there were two purposes for capturing 36 hours in Columbia: to teach students how to plan and execute a big project and to give our readers something they’d never seen before.

It took five weeks of planning, 29 photographers, 12 picture editors, 62 photo assignments, seven pizzas, six bags of candy and countless runs for coffee. We ended up with 11,374 pictures that capture families, college presidents, gravediggers, people delivering pizza and teenagers attending the big game.

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