Monday, July 3, 2017

2017 Spring Photojournalism

I can't believe it is already July. Here are a few highlights from stories I've covered around Northern Utah for the last three months. Enjoy.

Hayden Call, 7, collects eggs while working alongside his siblings on their family farm in West Haven on Friday, April 21, 2017. Over the last decade, the Call family has moved from gardening as a hobby to running a small three acre farm behind their home outside of Ogden. This year will be their fourth year selling produce at the Ogden Farmers Market.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

Dylan Orchard is thrown from a bull during the Utah High School Rodeo Finals in Heber City on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Orchard competes for Weber County's  Spikers High School Rodeo Club. The annual finals rodeo features four days of riding before Saturday night's championship.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

The Union Pacific No. 844 steam engine passes through orchards Perry on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. The 73 year old engine was the last steam engine built for Union Pacific. The train returned to service in 2016 and now makes several short excursions per year.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017


Weber State University assistant football coach Quinton Ganther leads athletes in a cheer during a football clinic at the Mill Creek Youth Center on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Before the clinic, Ganther met with youth in custody and talked about his own childhood where he was surrounded by drugs, crime and abuse and spent time locked up himself. "Sports was my outlet. Sports was my everything," says Ganther. He eventually went on to play six years in the NFL.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

OK GO headlined the second night of the 2017 Ogden Twilight Concert Series at the Ogden Amphitheater on Thursday, June 8, 2017. Dan Deacon opened the concert which drew the largest crowd of Ogden Twilight's three year history.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

During World War II, Ogden native Ray Hobbs served in the U.S. Air Force as a B-17 pilot. In the final weeks of the war, Hobbs flew in Operation Chowhound and dropped food into Holland where residents were battling starvation while under Nazi occupation. Hobbs poses for a portrait in his Ogden home on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 along with a flag that flew over the Cambridge American Cemetery in England which he recently visited.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

Jesse Watson, a biologist with HawkWatch, holds two young American kestrels that were banded and examined near Syracuse on Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Scientists and volunteers from the conservation group band hundreds of new-born kestrels in Northern Utah each spring to try and learn more about the small falcons.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

Dave Wolfgram kayaks on the Ogden River near downtown Ogden on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Temperatures along the Wasatch Front were in the high-90's on Tuesday and hot weather was forecasted to continue through Wednesday.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

High School ropers practice around the edge of the arena as they wait to compete in the team roping competition at the Utah High School Rodeo Finals in Heber City on Thursday, June 1, 2017.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

Abram Carroll, dressed as the cowardly lion, prepares for a dress rehearsal of T.O. Smith Elementary School's bilingual Wizard of Oz play on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Students in T.O Smith's dual language immersion program put on the play in both English and Spanish.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

Trace Redd, 12, removes his pads after bull riding practice at his home in Uintah on Tuesday, May 6, 2017. Redd won the state junior high title in bull riding and is preparing to head to the the National Junior High Finals Rodeo in Tennessee this summer.
©Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, 2017

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