Don’t Look Now

North Stafford practices just before kickoff against Brooke Point on Friday, September 14th, 2006.

The refs and the North Stafford “Wolverine” pledge allegiance during the national anthem just before kickoff in the game against Brooke Point on Friday, September 14th, 2006.

The King George football team listens to coach before the game under the crossbar.

The King George football prays before kickoff.

Getting chewed out by the coach at halftime.

Instead of raising hands, students use electronic voting machines to respond to the teachers questions during a georgraphy lesson in their fifth grade class at Winding Creek Elementary.

5th grade teacher Penny Izquierdo works with student Katie Canonico on an “active board”, an interactive teaching tool, at Winding Creek Elementary School. The school is one of the first in the area to use these new digital tools in the classroom.

Laborers for Christ volunteers work on the new Peace Lutheran Church in King George.

The old train depot in Fredericksburg, built in 1910, is bieng refurbished by developers for use as a clubhouse for the sprawling Cobblestone Square condominium development.

Kayla Tuttle, 2, sits under a row of jerseys about to be auctioned off to benefit Caroline’s Promise, an after school program for kids.

Came across these guys on the side of the road. Bruce and Bruce Jr., fish for Bass and Crappie in an old pond on a Saturday afternoon.

Jerry Decatur, a ninth generation Virginia crabber, with his Chesapeke Bay Retriever Sedge, steers his boat “Crabman” out to check the traps on the Potomac in the early hours of September 7th, 2006. “He loves bieng out here everyday with me,” said Decatur, who recently got Sedge back after losing him for three months.
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So here’s a few things from last week. I’ve decided to not post every frame I shoot from every assignment, instead just stuff I think is interesting. Comments please!

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Ernestine Smith is quietly readjusting to life after undergoing a complicated life-saving surgery for pulminary hypertension last year, and is one of the few patients who has recovered from the usually terminal condition. She now enjoys spending time outside with her pets and working on her yard, something she has not been able to do for the last year while recovering from her surgery.

Sidelines Feature- Mountain View High School Cross-Country star Max Desens.

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First Monday Night Football game of the year. Washington Redskins host the Minnesota Vikings. 94,000 people. Vikings win 19-16.

Game day face…

Don’t let your wives see you peeking…

A Native Washingtonian…

I really like the Redskins….

3 and out was the story of the night for the Redskins…

Injured player…

A great takedown…

But it’s not enough….Vikings win…
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This was an awesome assignment! Redskins fans are insane and the atmosphere was electrifying. We had two shooters, me and Mike Morones, who is a really experienced sports shooter at the paper, who definitely got the best action shots of the night. Yet I think I’m steadily getting better a shooting football with long lenses. Hoping I get another Redskins game this season…

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Because of the recent rains, the spillway releases excess water from Smith Lake Reservoir in Stafford County, on Tuesday, September 5th, 2006. “It was way down this time last year,” said Greg Mayers, a Water Treatment Plant Operator inspecting the spillway at the Smith Lake Water Treatment Facility.

John Reifenberg, left, and Alex Lochart, right, use a specially rigged gas-powered lawnmover to cut the damp grass on the steeply terraced hills of Fredericksburg National Cemetary on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006. After the recent rains, the five-man National Park Service crew, who usually cut the grass every ten days, mowed for the first time in around three weeks because of the unusually dry summer.

Lori Chaney, a 3rd-grade teacher at Winding Creek Elementary, reacts to the surprise news of winning Regional Teacher of the Year on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 as William Kennedy of the Stafford County Sheriffs Office looks on.

Lori Chaney, a 3rd-grade teacher at Winding Creek Elementary, hugs her son Keegan, 8, as her daughter Kimberlyn, 10, looks on, after Chaney heard the news of winning Regional Teacher of the Year. The award was presented by the Virginia State Department of Education in a surprise ceremony attended by school officials, colleagues, friends and family.

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A few shots from my first week at The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This place has an awesome photo staff that encourages creativity and in-depth assignments. I couldn’t ask for a better place to be…

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