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A Win for Wes

(Grand Rapids Press Photos) To read the story, click here.

Grieving Wes

Caption-Players on Fennville’s boys’ basketball team hug teammate DeMarcus McGee, second from right, following a news conference Friday, March 4, 2011, in Fennville about the death of teammate Wes Leonard on Thursday. Leonard, 16, sank a shot in overtime to give Fennville a win over Bridgman, then collapsed and died. (Grand Rapids Press Photo)

This is such a sad, unfortunate story. National media swarmed the town and in a press conference while I was shooting video, this moment happened. I was able to switch from video to still mode and quickly move forward to make this image. To read our story, click here.

The ‘Gnarly Tree House’

During the only neighborhood block party Chris and I have attended, someone told us their kids call our house the “gnrarly tree house,” because of our enourmous oak tree.

MPPA

Photo results :http://mppa.org/poy/?c=2010-Pictures-of-the-Year

My multimedia piece: http://www.emilyzoladz.com/multimedia/waiting-to-exhale/

Ice and Sun

(Grand Rapids Press Photos)

Slow news days often result in me wandering the little towns surrounding Grand Rapids, looking for photo packages to be made. Tuesday found me in the woods of Rockford, looking for snow pictorials. It was great. So quiet, so peaceful. So simple.