This is a portrait of a woman the paper ran with a story on her accomplishments in children's mental health services at the Saginaw County Community Mental Health Clinic.
This is one of the features I turned in from Black Friday. A mother and her two daughters huddling up for warmth while waiting outside of Target for the doors to open just before 5a.m.
This is my neighbor's car, taken from one of my apartment windows.
I was driving around on the outskirts of Saginaw looking for features and I took this and the next three frames along a dirt road that dead ends into some of the wet lands south of town.
This is a portrait outtake from a story that ran on this woman originally from Tokyo that immigrated to the U.S. in the early fifties. It was a part of a long term project a reporter was doing on race relations in Saginaw.
This was an outtake from a story we did on this man who owns these old rifles and machine guns that were manufactured at one of the G.M. plants in Saginaw for use in World War II.
Bridgeport High School students cheering for one their star varsity players as the starters were introduced before the game.
I found this tree in Old Saginaw City when I first arrived back in July and I was constantly driving by it while I was there. When winter rolled around i stopped again to get a different season and got this next image.
I was at this bowling alley to shoot a portrait of a high school student who rolled his first 300 game for a weekly bowling column one of the sports writers was doing and this kid just wandered over to investigate what I was doing while I was setting up my lights.
This mural on the front of a little grocery store on the south side of town always caught my eye and I finally stopped one night and got this.
These two shots are just the men's and women's restroom signs in the the conservatory at Dow Gardens in Midland.
This was one of the final frames I shot in Saginaw. It's my neighbor's back yard, the night before I left.
I shot a Daughtry concert downtown at the Dow Event Center, I was out in the crowd during one of the opening acts, Theory of a Deadman, and I got this.
It took a little while but Saginaw finally received some H1N1 vaccinations, this was a very unhappy recipient at one of the clinics they set up in a local middle school.
This was an accident, shooting from my bathroom window, but I liked how it looked like a painting.
I covered Devil's Night, the night before Halloween. I was up all night in case there was any arson, but during the early evening I had to shoot a party they threw for kids at the downtown arena to keep them off the streets. This was at a booth where a weird science guy was doing experiments to entertain them.
City elections
Just a sunset I shot by a corn field near Birch Run, Michigan.
A combine harvesting soy beans under a full moon near Oakley, Michigan.
C.P.R. training at a local middle school.
The paper wanted to do a story on the negative impact the term "swine flu" had on the pork industry and they wanted to tie it in with a local hog farmer, so I tracked down this guy in the southern part of the county who got hit pretty hard when the pork market took a nose dive about a year ago. These first two are a couple of out takes, the last one, ran in the slideshow online, he's pouring milk out to bottle feed a calf, he also raises cattle, and his dog Roscoe is in the foreground.
A Reese High School football player on the field after their season ending loss to St. Charles.
Senior Latin students eating dinner at a banquet they hold every year for all of the Latin students at Heritage High School.
Latin students backstage, some waiting to perform, some just watching the skits at the Latin banquet.
Just a plant on the side of the road, lit up by my head lights.
A dancer practicing her routine for a Christmas production at the Temple Theatre in downtown Saginaw.
Some of the Midland High School marching band drummers performing at the football team's final playoff game.
This is a Swan Valley High School lineman that we did a story on who has Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system, but still manages to hold a starting position as the left guard on the varsity team.
Deitre
The moon above my house one evening.
An action figure head on the ground in the alley behind my house.
Stumbled upon some kids biking on the river walk one afternoon and got this silhouette.
Went back to the Castle Museum a few days after my first visit to try to get a better shot and I came away with this.
They opened a new jail in Midland and let people into certain parts to tour the facilities after the ribbon cutting. I was waiting for a shot on the top bunk in one of the cells and this lady started talking to me when she realized I was in there.
We did a fall color feature story and this is one of the images I turned in from a forest just south of town.
Deitre.
From the interstate on the way to the Detroit airport.
This was another fall color feature I turned in that I found driving some back roads between Saginaw and Flint.
One of the gypsy dancers in Zingara, a dance troupe at the Mid-Michigan Renaissance Festival.
Another one of my fall features. This one's from a farm east of town.
Deitre.
Midland vs. Heritage
A butterfly swimmer for John Glenn High School in Bay City.
Nouvel Catholic Central vs. Frankenmuth High School.
Saginaw Township police officers pay their respects to a fellow officer, after the dedication of his memorial plaque outside of their station, who died in a golf cart accident.
Arthur Hill High School vs. Saginaw High School, cross-town rivals.
Saginaw High School players celebrate their victory over their cross-town rivals Arthur Hill High School.