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Behind the Lens: Various photo gear helpful to storm chasers: By Richard Gwin; May 4, 2008; One very interesting part of photography is when the weather changes quickly in the spring and one is called to head out into Mother Nature’s wrath.
Behind the Lens: Photographer catches cat fever: By Richard Gwin; March 2, 2008; Call me crazy, but the idea of photographing a cougar, a puma — a mountain lion — would be one of the most exciting subjects for my lens.
In Castro’s shadow: Photographer tells about his love of Cuba and life under its leader; By Richard Gwin; February 20, 2008; Until my first visit to Cuba in 1990, all I knew about the tiny island country I learned during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the weeklong event I witnessed in 1962 on a fuzzy, black-and-white TV in western Kansas. But during a trip to Jamaica I saw an advertisement for flights to Cuba, and I was intrigued. Being a journalist, I was able to legally get into the country. The next day I was in Havana.
Behind the Lens: Investing time, patience pays when shooting wildlife: By Richard Gwin; January 27, 2008; I remember sitting in the Pratt High Library in the ’60s and looking through Sports Afield and Outdoor Life, just to name a few outdoor magazines. Plug that into becoming a photographer, and you have someone who not only loves the outdoors but gets paid to make photos of it.
Retracing trail resurrects history: By Richard Gwin & Joel Mathis; September 29, 2007; You know about the horses. You know about the wagons. What you may not know is that many settlers crossed the Oregon Trail in the 1800s on their feet. But Karen and Dave Vixie know it all too well. Last week, they joined a wagon train that followed the Kansas portion of the trail, both of them walking stretches that covered 13 or more miles a day. The trail goes through Lawrence.

Recent photos

Wheat grows in an otherwise empty field at the northwestern corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive that is the site of a planned Wal-Mart store. The city has granted a building permit to the retailer, and construction is expected to begin soon. “We’re looking at a grand opening of around mid-to-late spring of 2009,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Angie Stoner said.

Ezra Huscher, a Kansas University junior from Salina, took advantage of Monday’s sunny weather to refine his juggling skills. He practiced behind the Spencer Museum of Art on the KU campus. Today’s high is expected to be 71.

It was all for the dogs Saturday at the Mutt ’n’ Strut walk at Sunflower School, where owners brought their pooches for the event’s 13th anniversary in Lawrence. The charity walk’s proceeds, estimated at $30,000, benefited the Lawrence Humane Society.

From left, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Bud Stallworth, Teresa Sims and Haskell student Krystal Jumping Elk, all Obama supporters, talk Saturday about the 2008 Democratic Convention. They attended the “Vote For Change” rally at Kansas University’s Burge Union.

Volunteers, from left, Jennifer Lauri, Shirley Wynes, and Sharon MacDonald-Simmons work Saturday on a Habitat For Humanity home at 207 N. Comfort Lane. The project was part of National Women Build Week.

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