It took me a while to get it together, but here is the second part of my “Best of 2015” post. Check out the previous post for images of sports, presented here are more news related images from the past year. I would like to put together one more as a “Best of Personal Work” but I will need to get a scanner as I shot almost exclusively film when not at work…Find me in person and I will let you dig through my box of prints if that appeals to you. In the mean time, please enjoy a selection of my favorite images from the past year. As always the best way to view the images is to click on the first one and enter slideshow mode…
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Tom Carter walks past a partially-full cattle tank near his Parks, Ariz. home Friday afternoon. Some residents use the pools of standing water to gauge the state of the shallow water-bearing zones underground that feed many of the domestic wells in the area. These groundwater zones respond quickly to climate events, drying out during periods of drought and recharging with snowmelt or major rainfall.
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Susanne Severeid, who came all the way from Oregon to attend Saturday night’s candle vigil to honor Kayla Muller, lights a small candle inside the NAU Campus Ministry building.
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Arizona State Governor Doug Ducey gives a talk during the Coconino County Republican Committee Lincoln Day Dinner at the DoubleTree Hilton in Flagstaff Tuesday evening.
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Poet’s Pen organizer Molly Wood sits at the Wine Loft in downtown Flagstaff, which hosts her popular weekly event.
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Zoe Rucker, 10, touches a static charged ball which causes her hair to stand on end during the second-annual Flagstaff Community STEM Celebration at the Skydome Wednesday evening.
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Kayci Cook Collins, Superintendent of Flagstaff Area National Monuments, stands in the former living quarters of the Cliffs Ranger Station at Walnut Canyon National Monument. The monument is celebrating it’s 100 year anniversary in July.
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Kaleb Lightfood, left, and Rowan Mitchell St-John, right, dig through the stacks of comic books at Cab Comics during Free Comic Book Day celebrations Saturday.
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Beverly Thomas of Flagstaff uses a small broom to sweep off the head stones of military services members in preparation for Memorial Day ceremonies to be held at Citizens Cemetery in Flagstaff Monday.
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Lynn Nemeth, Executive DIrector of the Arboretum at Flagstaff, stands in a green house with a Horsetail Milkweed plant, one of several varieties being planted in hopes of helping to restore declining Monarch butterfly populations. Monarchs lay their eggs on Milkweed and it is the only plant that their larvae eat making it extremely critical for the species.
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Howard McAnly, a volunteer at the Flagstaff Family Food Center, waits for customers to arrive to collect their donated food boxes.
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A firefighter with the Coconino National Forest stands in clouds of smoke monitoring burning grass at a managed fire near Mormon Lake Wednesday afternoon.
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Father and son wait for the action to begin at the Flagstaff Pro Rodeo Thursday.
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Vivian Descheny weaves a Navajo rug on a loom at the Museum of Northern Arizona during the 66th annual Navajo Festival of Arts and Culture Saturday. The two day event continues Sunday.
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Inside the new Science and Health building looking north from the second-floor.
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Climbers stop near the top of Snowbowl Road for a quick selfie during the annual Climb to Conquer Cancer Saturday morning.
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Mark Richardson uses a pressure washer to clean the floor of the 4-H Club rabbit barn ahead of the Coconino County Fair.
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Alma Angelina Aispuro spins a pot on a pottery wheel in her home studio during the 18th annual Flagstaff Open Studios Saturday afternoon. During the two day event, which continues Sunday, many area artists open their studios and homes to the public offering demonstrations and selling their art.
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A kayak trip down the Verde River near Clarkdale requires two portages to get over Brewer’s Tunnel Diversion Dam, historically used by United Verde Copper Company to divert river water for industrial use.
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Rows of food vendors at the Coconino County Fair. The fair continues at the Fort Tuthill County Fair Grounds through Monday.
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Members of the Northern Arizona University Community Music and Dance Academy preform at Ardrey Auditorium ahead of the Flagstaff Festival of Science Shoemaker Keynote Presentation Friday evening.
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Metal sculpture artist Tom Williams stands in the workshop of his Williams, Ariz. home.
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A speaker addresses the gathered crowd at a candlelight vigil on the Northern Arizona University campus Friday night following a shooting that left one student dead and three others hospitalized earlier that day.
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Nicholas Prato, center, one of the victims of last week’s shooting incident that took place at Northern Arizona University, stands with fellow fraternity members during a walk and gathering Tuesday afternoon to honor the victims of Friday’s deadly shooting on the NAU campus.
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Michelle Deal and her son Tristin Deal, 11, embrace in their Flagstaff home after having a bag of toys delivered by Officer Ryan Forsman from the Northern Arizona Law Enforcement Toy Drive.
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Karen Carswell with the US Forest Service cleans up piles of broken and discarded sleds inside the Fort Valley Experimental Forest which is closed to the public.
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Flagstaff drummer Sam Neely
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Local band Tow’rs sits at the counter of the Grand Canyon Cafe.
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Sky Black (center) and the Mural Mice stand at the center of their new mural The Sound of Flight.
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Here are a few snaps from a few assignments I have done over the last few months. I will continue working on keeping weekly, but at least monthly updates of my exploits…
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A participant in the Terrain Racing Mud Run Obstacle Race makes his way through one of many obstacles along the course at Fort Tuthill County Park Saturday. Runners could choose either a 5k or 10k course that features up to 20 obstacles ranging from mud pits and monkey bars to rope ladders and walls to climb.
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A participant in the Terrain Racing Mud Run Obstacle Race crawls under a barricade through a pit filled with muddy water Saturday.
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Bicyclists take off from the starting line for the 15th annual Pepsi-Cola Century Ride to benefit Flagstaff Medical Center’s Taylor House Saturday morning.
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Gretchen Hall throws a large wooden pole end-over-end during the caber toss competition at the annual Arizona Highland Celtic Festival held at Foxglenn Park Saturday. The tow-day event continues Sunday.
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Caleb Lachowski, 9, left, is knocked off balance by Samuel Stuart, 13, right, while participating in a balance beam pillow fight at the Arizona Highland Celtic Festival Saturday.
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Wendy Beaver of the Celtic Re-enactment Organization for Fellowship and Trades shows Chase Muench, 7, how to use an Inkle Loom to weave a small belt during the 18th annual Arizona Highland Celtic Festival Saturday.
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Connor Lachowski, 7, throws handfuls of cooked oatmeal at a large target in the Celtic Kids Corner area of the annual Arizona Highland Celtic Festival Saturday. The two-day event continues Sunday at Foxglenn Park in Flagstaff.
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Players from the Northern Arizona High School Rugby Club, play an exhibition game Saturday at the 18th annual Arizona Highland Celtic Festival.
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A large trash pile occupies an empty lot in Flagstaff. Although the city has bulk trash collection days each month, some residents illegally dump their bulk items behind businesses or residential areas, others simply miss the days or are unaware of where and how to leave bulk items causing large piles of trash to sit near the curb until the next bulk collection day the following month.
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West Flag Little Leagues Nick Lopez slides into home during game action against Winslow Friday.
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The WFLL Red Sox and Giants shake hands after the final game of the championship Saturday afternoon.
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A Guardian Air helicopter prepares to land in a field on McMillan Mesa before a ceremony Monday afternoon to dedicate a pair of commemorative benches installed along the FUTS trail near Turquoise Drive. The benches and an accompanying plaque are a memorial for the two medical helicopters that crashed near the area in 2008.
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Smoke from a managed fire operation being conducted by the Coconino National Forest rises over a field near Mormon Lake.
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A firefighter with the Coconino National Forest sits near large power lines while monitoring a managed fire operation near Mormon Lake Wednesday afternoon.
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Children and counselors sit under a giant rainbow parachute at the Flagstaff Athletic Club Summer Day Camp Tuesday afternoon.
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Ambreal Selestewa, 7, waters her family’s plot with her mother Kylene Selestewa at the Bonito Street Community Garden Monday afternoon.
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Howard McAnly, a volunteer at the Flagstaff Family Food Center, waits for customers to arrive to collect their donated food boxes.
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Bicyclists in colorful costumes ride through the Thorpe neighborhood during the annual Hullabaloo bicycle parade Saturday morning.
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A selection of feature shots from the last month or so taken around Flagstaff…Enjoy.
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So let’t try this again…Following the success of other traffic boosting animal portraits on this site, I present you, my little droogies, with a traffic boosting cow. View of San Francisco Peaks from Rogers Lake County Natural Area.
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While driving through Idaho this week I stopped outside Arco to take this 18 image panorama of the Lost River Mountain Range. Borah Peak, Idaho’s highest, is visible on the right through the smoke from some nearby wildfires. Click on the photo to see a larger, zoomable size…
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Spent Thursday night camping on the edge of the Mogollon Rim with a group of friends. This spot offers unparalleled views of the edge of the rim and into Sedona. The above shot was taken just before sunrise out of a rock precipice several hundred feet above the canyon floor, there is quite a bit of fog and some monsoon rain clouds in the distance…
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Last weekend in a cow pasture just outside Flagstaff, hundreds gathered from near and far for the 4th annual FireFly Gathering. I had the Fuji X100 out with me all weekend, the results are over on my Facebook Page Here…
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A riff on the same, I can’t get enough of these graphic/documentary style images. With the UV rays climbing up here on the mountain, and summer boredom setting in, I have another series of photograms for your enjoyment. Hit the link to see the gallery… Continue reading →
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I started this blog back in October 2010 as part of a project for a journalism class I was taking at Northern Arizona University. Little did I know that I would gather such an incredible international following, continue blogging at all, or even enjoy it…To celebrate this milestone, I want to finish the story that started it all. The Jerome Jamboree Volkswagon Convention. Please check out the first two parts, Part One Here, and Part Two Here…The assignment was over and I moved on to other projects, but now, here is the dramatic conclusion… Continue reading →
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