The last couple weeks have been slow but interesting. Last Saturday was a long, 11-hour work day with the paper that was completely unexpected. It started with a morning assignment at Duke Field with Air Force reservists that exercised their skills in a training session. Some of the exercises they did were searching & handcuffing, tending to the wounded, and fire-on-fire field training - like in the picture above. I enjoyed the wide open field, the cool fall-feeling breeze & warm sunlight, and the reservists with their impressive skills.
When I arrived back at the office Saturday afternoon, Nick told me about a plane that crashed in the Gulf near Topsail Hill State Park. So, I abandoned working on my pictures and rode with him to see what we could capture. The plane was already submerged when we arrived, but I caught the coastguard out in the water trying to rescue the two pilots that went under.
This picture of the park ranger was published in the paper. We had to walk over a mile on the beach just to reach this point and take pictures. I also captured the helicopter that circled the area. Sadly, the two pilots died.
Friday night I had a chance to tag along with a reporter as he ventured into a local club with state lawmen who were doing an inspection of the place for violations. The Nipa Hut could lose their liquor license because the lawmen determined they were violating state laws concerning alcohol sales. I took this picture of a few officers searching the premises, and it was published the next day:
A touched a bit a softball again this year and covered a game out in Freeport for the first time. The Baker girls won 7-2:
On February 27, I drove to Paxton and photographed the regional finals where they played Arlington Country and lost, 81-53:
A few days before, I traveled to Camp Timpoochee to photograph women sewing quilts together for wounded troops as part of the Quilts of Valor project. Most of the women there were older, but I found someone's daughter quilting and thought it was interesting.
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