Highlights From 2013

I made it through 2013 and thought I would share a few of the photo highlights from the last year. Many of these images are from my first year shooting for the Standard-Examiner in Northern Utah. Looking forward to what 2014 brings. Enjoy.

Big Brush Creek Cave
©Benjamin Zack

Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo wrapped up the final night at Pioneer Stadium on Wednesday, July, 24, 2013. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Elijah White-Scott waits as Kevin Styles combs out his hair before a haircut at Marshall White Community Center on Monday, August, 19, 2013. Styles, who is a barber at Envy Me Salon and Spa in Roy, was one of nine barbers from around the region giving free back-to-school haircuts.(BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Crystal Giordano helps her daughter, Isabella Giordano, 5, across the slackline at The Front Climbing Gym in Ogden during the Shin-Dig fundraiser for the Ogden Trails Network on Thursday, May, 2, 2013. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

High School cyclists from around the state compete in the third Utah high School Cycling Race at Snowbasin on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Gage Church, left, and Tim Sharp kiss at the Hampton Inn in Ogden after becoming the first gay couple to be legal married in Weber County on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Over 60 couples were married in hallways and side rooms of the hotel as they tried to beat a possible stay on the ruling to allow gay same-sex marriage in Utah. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Alex Davis, right, gives a calf an injection of the antibiotic LA-200 while moving cattle up Logan Canyon on Thursday, August, 8, 2013. Around 350-400 head were moved up to higher, late-season grazing areas. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Fire crews battle the State Fire on the Utah/Idaho border which reached 11,000 acres on Saturday night. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Neil Winterton, a parts maintenance technician at Hill Air Force Base, chants through a megaphone during a protest over the government shutdown in Ogden on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. On the third day of the shutdown, dozens of employees from Hill AFB and the IRS gathered outside of U.S. Congressman Bob Bishop's Ogden office. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Fourth grade students from Backman Elementary School watch a baby pig race during a field trip to Black Island Farms in Syracuse on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Students from around Northern Utah, Southern Idaho and Western Wyoming visit the farm throughout September and October. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Dustin Mitchell releases pheasant sat Salt Creek Waterfowl Management Area on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. The release was the largest ever in the area. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

The Utah State High School Rodeo Finals entered the third day of competition in Heber City on Friday, June, 14, 2013. Bodell Jessen of Uintah Basin High School takes part in the Steer Wrestling competition. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Bencyn Allred eats an ice cream cone out of his mother, Ashley Allred's, hand at Farr's Ice Cream as weather climbed into the high 80's in Ogden on Monday, June, 24, 2013. Weather is expected to climb to the high 90's by the end of the week. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Mt. Watson reflected in Wall Lake in the Uinta Mountains in Northern Utah.
©Benjamin Zack

Kirsten Bahr, right, examines a map of the ice-filled Heaven's Gate Cave while John Cox, left, and JR Schenk look around on Wednesday, August, 14, 2013. Despite the summer heat, the temperature in the cave remains in the low 30's year round. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

The Ogden High School Junior ROTC waits along 25th Street in downtown Ogden at the end of the Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013. Hundreds of veterans, active service members and supporters marched down Washington Ave. to downtown. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Members of the Prado family perform "La Danza de los Viejitos" (the dance of the old men) during the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College in Ogden on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013.  (BENJAMIN ZACK-Standard-Examiner)

Big Brush Creek Cave
©Benjamin Zack