In 2003, Fort Carson's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment was deployed to join the second Iraq War. As a staff photographer for the Colorado Springs Gazette, I was embedded with the armored unit as they acclimated to their new surroundings and took on th
       
     
 Alex Fritch and his sister Ana empty the water from their boots after splashing in the puddles near the tulips during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. "The flowers are incidental. The mud and the puddles are far more interesting," say their mother,
       
     
 University of Washington's Jesse Callier sheds a defender during a 55-yard kickoff return against the University of Hawaii Warriors at Husky Stadium in Seattle.