Jessey Logan Dearing

Taser training at the Jacksonville, AR police department. “We want our officers to have an appreciation for the taser.”

The tiller race is a unique event in a town three hours away from Little Rock with a population of 359 according to the sign seen upon entering Emerson city limits. The tillers have motorcycle engines and race across a dirt field 200-feet in length at an average speed of 18 to 24 mph depending on the driver. The racers are not riding the tillers, they are desperately holding on and running behind them taking steps no shorter than 10 feet. The crowd is filled with travelers from around the south, some travel as many as 8 to 12 hours to come see the event. I know I would make the drive again. This year two women and three men competed, a small count compared to usual, but they hope more will enlist next year.

This is the dedication ceremony of a park opening in downtown Little Rock, I thought it looked like a fun park.

The Ozark Mission Project is a camp aimed to have teenagers help the community by building porches, wheelchair ramps and painting houses among other things for less fortunate and handicapped people.

The guy in the white shirt owns this house and was working in a shed in the backyard when he came out found his house on fire. No one was hurt and the fire burned throughout the inside of the house.

These are wildart pictures with absolutely no news value, yet they still run in the paper.

I have been sick the past two weeks and at some point I received pneumonia. I am getting better though. Here are some images from when I have actually been able to work, I will give them brief captions. The first four images are from Riverfest, a big festival that happened a couple of weeks ago here in Little/North Little Rock.

Kid getting sprayed at the water park.

Dog jumping competition. 23′ and 1″!

Corn eating competition, not really, but this family sure did love corn.

Some kids play fighting by the river, before it started raining on me, for the third time.

A child cancer patient who was raising money with a lemonade stand for research of his cancer. His name is Elijah Talley. Look him up.

The friday before Memorial Day, hundreds of students from a local high school put flags in front of more than 18,000 gravestones.

This bride was shot shortly after being announced married to her husband, who was also shot, both survived. And they told me Little Rock was dangerous.

K-9 training wild art.

Memphis looks fun. Tennessee is a nice drive. Alabama is flat. Texas is flatter.

I always see a big group of people playing basketball/volleyball/soccer at this park near my house and I went there to shoot this for a backup of another assignment. I think I might go back a few more times in these last couple of weeks I have left in Asheboro. I have other shots, but they are just not edited (actually this is just a quick edit).

D200 ISO: 200 F/4 @ 1/300th