The Wyoming Game and Fish Department conducted a fish population survey along a stretch of the Laramie River. The fish are caught by a net as fish which are drawn to a positive and negative electrode floating from rafts as crews make their way downstream.
Wyoming Game & Fish Dept. fisheries technician Katy Fundenstein holds a brown trout with an antenna placed for tracking.
I met the Stricklins while photographing a three-part series about family owned forestland living in Astoria, Ore. working at The Daily Astorian some 12 years ago. One of my favorite images I captured was while visiting with Robert Stricklin and his daughter Pheraby Elizabeth Stricklin. There are other photos that captured the imagination and lifestyle of the Strickin’s, but this one image stood alone and ran six columns on page one of the newspaper.
Through meeting Robert our friendship would begin leading us to reunite through modern technology on Facebook. And through this medium I recently learned of my friend’s daughter’s passing leaving us all too soon at the tender age of 16.
My recollection is of an inquisitive little girl who brought to life a memorable photograph who enjoyed spending time in a flower garden just as much as she did riding on her father’s shoulders.
Hidden Treasures: Pheraby Stricklin, 5, picks daffodils on a bright sunny afternoon in the family flower garden. The Stricklins sell flowers at a roadside stand located in front of their homestead on U.S. 101.
Spring Splash is an event which marks the end of the ski season at Winter Park Ski Resort. One hundred participants attempt to ski or snowboard across a pond of water after going off a ramp on one of the Winter Park ski runs.
Many of the participants dress up in costume which always gets a charge from those watching. And amazingly several do make it across the water.
Taylor Grauer of Winter Park, Colo. celebrates after successfully skimming across a pond Sunday during the 2012 Spring Splash at Winter Park Ski Resort.
The Laramie Plainsmen boys number one ranked Wyoming soccer team was upset by no. 2 Sheridan 2-1 in overtime play. The Plainsmen boys were also ranked no. 16 in the nation going into today’s game.
Laramie Plainsman senior forward Josh Henry watches his shot on goal against Sheridan Friday at the Laramie Recreation Field.
The Jackalope Jump is a fundraiser for Special Olympics in which participants jump into an icy cold pond (Hunk Finn Pond here in Laramie). Some teams come up with clever names and catchy costumes to wear before taking the plung. This year’s event was the warmest yet as there was no ice on the pond to be broken up. Here are a few of my favorites:
Participants in the 2012 Special Olympics Wyoming Jackalope jump make quite a splash entering Hunk Finn Pond.
Kenny Sailors stands next to a statue of Steamboat with the Arena-Auditorium in the background.
Today my colleague Eve Newman and I spoke with a Beitel Elementary School fifth-grade class about we do as a reporter and photographer at the Laramie Boomerang as well as what we enjoy most about our jobs. Shortly thereafter we were treated to lunch at a new local restaurant having lunch with students Krisanna Andrews and Sienna Powell. The two were selected of their classmates to go to lunch with Eve and I after the two paired up on a project to simulate a mock interview. So much of what we do in community journalism involves our public schools and I am always appreciative of those teachers, parents and students who entrust us to do our jobs with children.
Krisanna Andrews, left, blows her straw sleeve at classmate Sienna Powell while having fun at lunch.
High school soccer kicked off this afternoon with the Lady plainsmen shutting out Gillette 7-0 at the North 40 soccer field. An impressive win against highly ranked Gillette on an unseasonably warm day, sunny and 70 degrees.
Lady Plainsman junior Lindsey Martinez (17) collides with Gillette's Ashton Peterson Friday at the North 40 soccer Field.
The sixth and final round was Saturday evening with Penn State winning their second consecutive national team championship.
Iowa wrestler Matt McDonough celebrates after beating Nicholas Megaludisa in a championship 125-pound wrestling match at the 2012 division I wrestling championship at the Scottrade Center.
Day two in round three Friday morning saw losses for all six Wyoming Cowboys wrestlers. About the most exciting thing to happen this morning was running into University of Oklahoma SID Kenny Mossman. It was a priviledge to watch Wyoming’s three senior wrestlers over the last four years become outstanding at what they do. To watch their dreams deminish before them was difficult for Cowboys Michael Martinez, Shane Onufer and Joe LeBlanc.
A Wyoming trainer tends to wrestler Michael Hernandez during round three of the 2012 Division I wrestling championships Friday at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.