Biography:
Ethan Weston is a photographer currently based in Buffalo, Wyoming. His work focuses mainly on the human side of environmental issues facing the world today. Growing up Ethan would always use his mother’s camera to take photos of landscapes...
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Focus:Photojournalist, Documentary, Multimedia
Covering:USA & Canada
Skills:Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier, Apple Final Cut Pro, Multimedia Production, Photojournalism, Video Editing
Emily Million receives a cross of ash during evening mass on March 6, 2019 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Columbia. Traditionally, members of the Catholic Church receive crosses made of ash on their forehead, symbolizing repentance.
University of Missouri's Cierra Porter, Sophie Cunningham and Jordan Roundtree celebrate after Mizzou sinks a basket on Sunday, March 03, 2019 in Columbia. Mizzou Women's Basketball faced off against Alabama in their final home game of the season.
Tony Minnick checks some of the growing seedlings in the soil blocks at the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture's urban farm on March 12, 2019 in Columbia. Minnick has been the urban farm's manager for about four seasons.
Young dancers watch the performance from backstage during the Dancearts' spring recital May 24 in Jesse Auditorium. The studio offers classes for dancers age 2 and over.
At one point Picher reportedly had two hospitals and over a dozen bars. At its height the town was home to around 20,000 people. Pictured here is all that remains of the baseball diamond and concession stand near the Picher-Cardin high school.
Callie Jennings began sitting in a deer blind with her dad when she was around 5 years old and began hunting at 7. Now she’s 12, a seventh-grader with a packed schedule. When it’s hunting season, though, she says a lot of her free time is spent in a deer blind with her dad.
Callie Jennings, now 12, shoulders her rifle after an afternoon of hunting on her family's land in November 2018. Callie didn't see any deer that day but said she's glad for the experience. "It's fun because even if you don't see anything," Jennings said, "you can still make jokes."
Callie Jennings aims down field at a doe that walked out in front of her in November 2018 outside Centralia. Callie missed the deer. She said it's because she rushed the shot and afterwards kept thinking, "Darn it, I should have just killed it."
Michael Jennings, left, and Callie Jennings look at a spot on a nearby tree where a buck has likely been licking the end of a branch. "I had never seen that before," Callie said. "[They do that] to leave their scent so that way they can attract does."
From left, Callie Jennings, left, Michael Jennings and Clayton Jennings butcher a deer Clayton shot the day before in November 2018. Callie said one of her favorite parts of hunting is the time she gets to spend with her family.
Callie Jennings removes fat from a piece of deer meat. Callie learned how to butcher the meat that her family harvests from the deer they hunted in 2017.
Callie Jennings, center, plays a board game with her dad, Michael Jennings; mom, Pam Jennings; and brother, Clayton, at their home north of Columbia in November 2018. "Callie is a board game fanatic," Pam Jennings said. "Yeah, but I'm really bad at them," Callie responded.
Callie Jennings tosses up her birthday present - a ticket to country musician Kane Brown - in excitement. Brown is Callie's favorite country music star.
unting is a family tradition for the Jenningses. Michael Jennings learned to hunt from his father, and now he's passing that knowledge on to Callie and Clayton. Michael Jennings said he hopes the two of them will pass the tradition along to their children, too.
Callie Jennings watches for a deer from inside her family's deer blind in November 2018. "(Hunting) teaches you how to have patience," Callie said, "lots and lots of patience." She thinks she has taken some lessons - such as learning quiet and focus - with her into her everyday life outside of hunting.