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Remembering the fallen

Scott Harmsen — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:51:19 PDT

Scott Harmsen / Kalamzoo GazettteI had parked my car in one of the drives at Riverview Cemetery in Kalamazoo to get some photos of Kalamazoo Public Safety officers arresting two suspects in the robbery of the Citizens Credit Union on...

Students Without Borders

Mark Bugnaski — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:06:02 PDT

Mark Bugnaski / Kalamazoo GazetteTessa Mehlis, 14, left, of Bonn Germany, walks with 15-year-old freshman Holly Smith-Hoffman in Hackett Catholic Central Senior High School, Kalamazoo. Mehils was a guest student at Hackett for three weeks....

Behind the scenes at Binder Park

Jill McLane Baker | Gazette — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:31:25 PDT

Jill McLane Baker | Kalamazoo GazetteDaisy the giraffe nibbles Gazette columnist Jeff Barr's notebook during a behind the scenes tour at Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek.Jill McLane Baker | Kalamazoo GazetteDaisy the giraffe checks out the photographer's camera. I...

Gazette wins nine AP awards

Gazette Staff Reports — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:42:02 PDT

Mark Bugnaski | GazetteNorma Swegles of Ruggles, Ohio, the biological mother of Calista Springer, holds a snipped plastic locking cable tie that she found in front of the burned Centreville home where her daughter perished last March. Although the tie...

A feast of features

Jill McLane Baker | Gazette — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:40:02 PDT

WMU ROTC cadets complete combat water survival

By Nick Schwerin | Special to the Gazette — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:50:18 PST

KALAMAZOO -- As part of their training, Western Michigan University ROTC cadets have to accomplish several different swimming-related tasks, including some exercises wearing full combat gear. Nearly all the cadets were able to swim for 10 minutes, and most seemed to...

Gazette wins 10 photo awards

Gazette Staff Reports — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:55:36 PST

Kalamazoo Gazette photographers Mark Bugnaski, Jonathon Gruenke and Jill McLane Baker and former Gazette photo intern Jennifer Harnish were winners in the 2008 Michigan Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year contest. The Gazette captured 10 awards in the competition, which was held last Friday and Saturday in Lansing.

Band of Sisters

By Desiree Marx | Special to CityLife — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:12:55 PST

Student journalist hopes to make it as guitarist, singer

By Sara Waisanen | Special to CityLife — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:24:13 PST

City Life is publishing final photo essays from students taking Mark Bugnaski's first Western Michigan University Photojournalism class....

Cold Sunrise

Scott Harmsen | Gazette — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:43:13 PST

The sun rises over a frigid and snow-covered Vine Neighborhood on a recent morning.

Beating the winter blahs

Jill McLane Baker | Gazette — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:36:37 PST

It's January here in Michigan, smack dab in the middle of the grayest, coldest part of the year. The kind of weather that makes me want to curl up under blankets and eat nothing but soup for the next 3 months. Unfortunately, I don't get paid to eat soup, or stay inside, so I fight that urge and venture out onto the frozen tundra.

Suspension

Jennifer Harnish | Gazette — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:09:29 PST

David Bergenham belongs to a local suspension group.

Tremolo Instrument Consignment Shop

Mark Bugnaski | Kalamazoo Gazette — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:37:58 PST

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Champions

Jennifer Harnish | Kalamazoo Gazette — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:04:53 PST

There was no way of knowing, when I drove an hour and a half out to Bronson to photograph the Schoolcraft volleyball team's win against White Pigeon on Nov. 11, that I would be shooting their following three wins and finally their win of the Class C state championship title Saturday. Continue reading this entry...

Everybody really does love an animal photo: Gazette photo makes APME National Photo of the Month

jmbaker — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:46:52 PST

Last week Jill McLane Baker's photo of an animal control officer won the Associated Press Managing Editors' National Photo of the Month. Keep checking back here at Phoblographer for more great photos, and also check out our daily photo galleries at http://photos.mlive.com/kalamazoogazette/.