Josh Duplechian

Reportage

Teammates watch and joke as Louisiana State University center Sylvia Fowles squeezes her 6'6 body into the drivers seat of a sports car outside of the team hotel in Tampa,Fl prior to the start of the NCAA Women's Final Four Championship April 5,2008.
   
  
Cyclist Patrick Fasse, from Park City, UT, has his road rash injuries attended to by Tri Med’s Brent Faure after crashing his bicycle on one of the corners during the inaugural Old Town Criterium in Old Town Pocatello. Over 100 cyclists from Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming attended the first ever event held over two days in Pocatello and the neighboring community of Marsh Valley.
     
  
Ashland firefighters Rick Hand (left) and Carroll Summers stand underneath a backhoe while containing the remainder of the fire in Virginia, IL. Workers were forced to tear down the wall of the Minor Burn Tanning Salon when the fire kept reigniting many hours after it had started.
   
A member of the 116 Brigade takes a moment with his son before boarding the plane to Fort Bliss, TX where he will train with many from southeastern Idaho. After completion of their training the 116th Brigade will leave their families to fight the war overseas.
   
Fisherman David Spencer hands his reluctant granddaughter Taylor Bilyeu,7, a large writhing rainbow trout caught during the annual Soda Springs winter carnival. Hundreds of people braved the freezing temperatures to reserve a spot on the pond in hopes of bagging the biggest fish of the afternoon.
     
  
   
Young Mexican folklorico dance troupe members quietly wait as they prepare to perform in front of a sold out crowd at Coors Field in Denver,CO September 29,2007. The pre-game dance and mariachi band will perform for Hispanic heritage month at Coors Field prior to the Colorado Rockies playing the Arizona Diamondbacks.
   
Bonnie Schuelke laughs with her father, Lee Kuntz, who now resides in the Highland Hills Complex and comes to visit his daughter and son-in-law at their home in American Falls. Schuelke says that she likes knowing her father is being cared for at the assisted living center and enjoys many visits with her father while maintaining a family and career of her own in American Falls,Idaho.
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
Idaho Falls resident Harry Lord meanders through the ‘field of heroes’ during the annual POW/MIA bike rally at the Bannock County Fairgrounds. “It breaks my heart to see all of these crosses representing those who have fallen for this country,” stated Lord as he tears up. The crosses were installed by volunteers from the community and were left up for the entire weekend of the annual bike rally for all to honor those who have died in service.