• Sonny Rollins headlines the Litchfield Jazz Festival as a fierce thunderstorm turned the Goshen Fairgrounds into a mud puddle. "I think he brought this storm with him," said a fan who was not dressed or prepared for the storm. "It started raining when he started playing. I don't know if I should be impressed or angry."
  • A seagul floats above a rock jetty on the edge of Compo Beach, Westport, Conn.
  • Music fills the dusk air in Washington Square Park in Manhattan.
  • Cyclists walk their bikes over the sand on the beach at Far Rockaway Beach in the bourough of Queens, New York City. They rode as a group through Brooklyn to reach this remote part of the city.
  • A pedestrian crosses the street on a rainy September afternoon in Midtown Manhattan.
  • Erin Siegal, a Redux photographer, is taken into custody by the New York Police Department for disobeying police orders when the NYPD herded the press from one place to another. She was later released. We were there covering a protest at the Mexican Consulate in NYC for the murder of journalist Brad Will by Mexican paramilitary forces in Oaxaca, Mexico.
  • Takuya "Tak" Sakamoto, a New York City-based photographer and bike messenger stops for a photo on 6th Avenue.
  • Riding eastbound on West 14th Street in Manhattan as part of an organized, memorial bike ride for Eric Ng, who was killed by a drunk driver in the West Side Greenway in Manhattan.
  • Norman Siegel stands next to Steve Hyman, who is speaking in 2007 on the steps of Union Square North in Manhattan about a federal decision to bar the NYPD from harassing cyclists in New York.
  • The opening day of the 2007 season in Coney Island, Brooklyn, which happened to be April 1. Marching bands from Rhode Island and New York City gathered to play despite the unseasonably cold weather and rain. Weather forced the bands to play under the roof of a pavilion after starting on the beach and boardwalk. Performers on stilts dance among the costumed musicians.
  • The opening day of the 2007 season in Coney Island, Brooklyn, which happened to be April 1. Marching bands from Rhode Island and New York City gathered to play despite the unseasonably cold weather and rain. Rain forced the bands to play under the roof of a pavilion after starting on the beach and boardwalk. The Hungry Marching Band from New York City keeps the party roaring and the different bands took turns playing after very dramatic fake deaths of the musicians. The playing continued in the subway trains after everyone left Coney Island.
  • A jazz trio plays for passers-by in Union Square, in the bourough of Manhattan, New York City. They received a summons for playing in a park without a permit.
  • Ski jumping in Salisbury, Conn.
  • Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brendan McGloin, a member of the Air Force Shooting Team, takes a shot with a .22 caliber pistol at a target on a range on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Sergeant McGloin also works at one of the few Air Force gunsmith shops where he builds weapons and prepares them for competition.
  • An Air Force military training instructor calls drill commands during a graduation ceremony at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. This ceremony, the Thursday before the Friday graduations, is where the trainees are mass promoted to the rank of airman. They receive a ceremonial coin as part of the event. Honor graduates and other specialty awards are also awarded.
  • The San Antonio Missions lost to the Midland Rockhounds with a score of 3-0 at home during a game held on Armed Forces Day.
  • The visor and rear doors stand open on the C-5A Galaxy cargo aircraft, the rising sun casts a silhouette of the crew chief in a warm glow. The aircraft was set up for a photo shoot for Airman Magazine at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
  • The view from the flight deck of a C-5A Galaxy during a mid-air refueling over Waco, Texas. The refueling was part of a training mission for crews of the 433rd Airlift Wing and 434th Air Refueling Wing. The two crews must work in concert to physically connect the aircraft for refueling.
  • Basic military training graduates in formation in the patio under the 331st Training Squadron. The base was under a lightning warning, so the graduation ceremony was held indoors, shortened from the normal proceedings, which are held on the parade field at Lackland Air Force Texas.
  • Snow mobile racers during the Air Force Invitational, part of the AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series in Shakopee, Minn. The race weekend had unusually warm weather for Minnesota in January and suffered a rain delay and difficult conditions.
  • Members of the 188th Fighter Wing perform maintenance of the engines of an A-10 Thunderbolt II at Fort Smith, Ark.
  • A float during Mardi Gras 2010, Galveston, Texas.
  • Members of the 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron conduct a humanitarian mission on the Red Lake Indian Reservation for the Red Lake band of Chippewa Indians, just outside of Bemidji, Minnesota.
  • Joshua (he didn't give a last name) lands on a set of doubles -- dirt jumps where one is meant as a launch and the other is a landing. Local riders call this specific path, which starts downhill on the sidewalk and continues into the park, the mainline doubles. This is a city-owned, but rider-maintained park simply known by its location, West 9th Street, in Austin, Texas.
  • Head Coach Pete Wesp of the Randolph High School football team prepares his players for the upcoming 2010 season. The Ro-Hawks had a rough 2009 season, but Wesp said the team has a strong tradition of winning seasons.
  • Abraham Flomo on his way toward the Columbus goal. Randolph Air Force Base soccer team plays other intramural teams from other Air Force bases from across the United States. The games were part of a championship held at the South Texas Area Regional Soccer Complex in San Antonio, Texas.
  • Sage Jacote during a fire spinning performance in Austin, Texas.
  • A weekend bicycle polo match at Eastwoods Park in Austin, Texas.
  • Kirk Mason, 902nd Logistics Readiness Squadron, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, removes an adhesive decal from a school bus using a small razor blade. He said by not contracting this tedious job to an outside company, the Air Force saved thousands of dollars.
  • Under a bright blue sky, students from Randolph High School race from one end of the pool to the other in boats made only of cardboard and duct tape. The annual Cardboard Boat Regatta was the culmination of a joint project between Karin Dentino’s physics classes and Mike Haug’s pre-calculus classes at RHS, where the students learned about the behavior of fluids, buoyancy, pressure and Archimedes’ Principle.
  • Burning Man experinent or festival -- call it what you want -- on a prehistoric dry lake bed in Nevada. Each year, 50,000 burners reside in Black Rock City, a temporary municipality created in a wildly harsh and unforgiving desert.
  • Majestic mountains dot the landscape of western New Mexico during an August afternoon.