Chickens, horses, baseball, etc.

Victoria Kelly, the namesake for Western's Kelly Autism Program in a therapy pool where she swims with her KAP mentor.

Team ropers at the Lone Star Rodeo last February in Western's Agricultural Exposition Center.

Barren County, Ky.

Western shortstop Matt Payton during one of their games against Vanderbilt last spring.

A wipe out on a section of Arkansas River rapids in central Colorado during the 26-mile FIBArk Whitewater Festival Downriver Race from Salida to Cotopaxi.

Street rods at a Super 8 in Pueblo.

Fourth of July fireworks, downtown Pueblo.

A Great Lakes Loons fan before a game last fall.

Junior Olympics pole vaulting in Pueblo.

Pueblo County Fair

Pueblo County Fair

Rodeo queen competition at the National Little Britches Finals Rodeo in Pueblo.

Bull riding at the National Little Britches Finals Rodeo in Pueblo.

"Yellow Face", one of four chickens being raised by a family in Pueblo, where residents are allowed to raise up to 10 fowl in the city limits.

Candle-light-vigil for a fatal shooting victim in Pueblo.

This post is pretty much my CPOY entry this year, minus several that I published in previous posts.

Owen and Chairs

Gradually going through everything since January and I'm going to make several posts here and there for the rest of this semester. These two were taken at the beginning of this semester. This sign was behind my neighbor's house, and the dog is Owen, a beagle we found on 31W in Elizabethtown.

Pueblo

Been out here in Colorado now for the past few weeks and I'm just wrapping up my second week here at the Pueblo Chieftain. I was on my way back from an assignment yesterday and a storm rolled over so I tried my hand at getting a lightning shot over the city's whitewater park on the Arkansas River.

Final Days in Saginaw

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.

Here are some of my favorite images that I shot during the last month or so of my internship in Saginaw. They go all the way back to the week of Thanksgiving. Most of these were things I found in between assignments, but there are a few here that ran in the paper.

One Month

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.

Just my bathroom window one morning.

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 woman was involved in a pretty bad accident that was caused by a guy chasing another vehicle and trying to run them off the road.

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

Another month down here in Saginaw, with just one more to go. Halloween came and went, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and Fall is still holding on here. I haven't seen much cold weather yet, I'm hoping for some snow in the near future. Playoffs for fall sports teams in the area are officially over, I'll be starting basketball and wrestling coverage this week. Here are some of my favorite images from the past month or so.