Grand Island Northwest junior Amy Knapp collects her thoughts after missing a shot out of the first hole bunker at Riverside Golf Club during the Class A state tournament, Tuesday Oct. 14 in Grand Island.

This photo that didn’t make our paper, but I like it — the photo that is — not the final score of the game.

The Missouri mascot celebrates after Missouri defeated the Huskers on Saturday Oct. 4, 2008 in Lincoln, Neb.  The final score of 52-17 gave the Tigers their first victory in Memorial Stadium in 30 years.

Finding a different angle for marching band photos is a challenge, but I liked this one. If only the town’s name was facing the camera….

Marching past the town of Henderson’s water tower, members of the Heartland Huskie Band including (from upper left) tuba player Jordan Hiebner, clarinet player Abigail Bechtel and mellophone player Luis Romo practice for this year’s Harvest of Harmony Parade. The band placed first in Class C last year.

Not sure what the best way is to show that our area’s population is less diverse, but this was a good try.

Two Grand Island Senior High students walk beneath some of the flags from many countries representing the country of origin of Senior High students. According to a recent study, Hall, Howard and Merrick counties saw a fall in foreign-born population living in the area from calendar year 2006 to 2007.

Thought this photo told the story well. At first, I was shooting through the wire, and then I pulled back to frame the people between the fence and the barbed wire.

JBS Swift & Co. workers protest a compromise reached to accommodate prayer for about 500 Somolian meatpacking plant workers in Grand Island, Neb., on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, at about 3:30 p.m. The objection — a change in the break schedule that leaves B shift workers shorted of hours Monday through Friday and forces them to work Saturday to get at least 40 hours in.

The situation at Swift has been resolved since this photo was taken.

LeRoy Peters of Henderson tosses a husked ear of corn into a horse-drawn trailer during a hand cornhusking demonstration at Husker Harvest Days on Sept. 11, 2008. “I picked 103 bushels per day for 10 days in 60 bushel corn,” he said speaking of his youth. “I got 13 cents per bushel. I had to furnish my own team and wagon. We were young and we were strong.”

I was hiding under a tent staying dry when I shot this weather feature at the Husker Harvest Days site.

Rain gear and umbrellas are common as Husker Harvest Days visitors, like these four exiting a shuttle, cope with rain for most of the morning Sept. 11, 2008.

While helping to celebrate Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska’s 40th year, Chantal McDonald celebrates one of three ringers in the ring toss area during a carnival Sept. 10, 2008. McDonald took home three bottles of pop as a result of her tosses.

On Sept. 13 I was able to visit Ashton for their Polish festival. I’ve covered it in years past, and our focus was on the food.  This time Harold Reutter and I traveled to the Mount Carmel Catholic  Church and Cemetery in what used to be Paplin, Neb.  I decided to try and show the head stones and visitors and saw this arrangement of crosses that would make a nice composition, if I could only wait long enough for someone to walk through it.  After five minutes or so, I had my picture.