Who can resist a penguin?

Kim Fuhrman, right, dresses her 4-year-old daughter, Laney, and her 6-year-old son, Noah, in penguin costumes as the two prepared to represent the continent of Antarctica as a part of the 6th annual Holcomb Hornets Around the World Multicultural Celebration at the school. The event celebrates the many cultures represented in the school's student population and features dance, song and demonstrations from cultures around the world.

While looking for something to shoot as the kids got ready for the event, I saw this mother dressing her kids in penguin costumes. Adorable!

Singing Men of Arkansas

Members of the Singing Men of Arkansas perform sacred music during a concert in honor of the service of U.S. veterans at the Gardens at Arkanshire in Springdale. The event featured sacred, pop and patriotic music under the musical direction of Michael J. Bedford.

As is always seemingly the case, the strobe that I installed up on a balcony that overlooks the area in which these men were to perform pooped out about three frames into their performance. I thought about going up there to change the batteries, but I doubt that the photos were going to look any different than this one. These guys were really impressive, and had a great selection from which they sang.

Lucky ducky

Frank Arellano, center, of Rogers leads the pack at the start of the Veterans Memorial 5K Run at the Fayetteville National Cemetery. Arellano went on to win the inaugural event in a time of 17:44. The race was organized as a fundrasier for the Regional National Cemetery Improvement Corporation, Inc., which is heading an effort to secure additional land for expansion at the facility.

We covered this from a news angle instead of a sports angle, so having the start was probably better than focusing on the winner. Still, it seemed odd to not have a photo of the winner of the race somewhere in paper. For the first time in a long time, the person leading the pack at the start turned out to be the winner, so one photo does it all. How lucky was that?

Perfect, again

Shiloh Christian junior receiver Zann Jones (8) stiff-arms Farmington senior safety Logan Boudrey (2) during the second quarter of play at Allen Holland Field in Farmington. The win capped a perfect regular season for the Saints.

With the changes at the newspaper, I stayed in Washington County to cover Shiloh and Farmington instead of following Fayetteville up to Rogers as I would normally have done. It's a change, but I had fun.

Moms and the chest bump

Woodland Junior High School football player Brooks Ellis, left, and his mother, Shelley Ellis, perform a chest bump prior to the Cowboys' game with Ramay Junior High School at Harmon Field. Shelley Ellis is a graduate of Woodland Junior High and was participating in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school.

I wish that I had had time to adjust my camera in such a way so I would have been able to get this without any motion blur, but I still like it. How many of our moms would give us a chest bump before a game? Mine would, I have no doubt about it.

Pretty light, if nothing else

Alicia Salina, a janitor at the One East Center building on the Fayetteville downtown Square, mops the floor on the first floor of the building.

Today, with little to do until the evening, I went to the Square to find some wild art, and found this woman mopping. There was a really cool patch of sunlight across the floor across the building from her that I wanted to wait for her to mop into, but it was about 60 yards away. I would have been a half hour or more of waiting until she reached it; time I did not have. I think I like the moodiness of this one better.

First day

Matt McKnight, a senior University of Arkansas physics student from Fort Smith, demostrates the power of static electricity using a Van de Graaff generator during the annual Haunted Lab hosted by the UA Society of Physics Students at the Physics Lab on the UA campus. The event featured demonstrations of physics.

Today was my first day to shoot for Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, LLC., and the combined effort of the newspapers in Northwest Arkansas. It's different. That was expected and it's going to be OK.

Newspapers are very dear to the hearts of those who make them. And it's hard to see them change and become something different. But it's not something less. This will allow us to keep doing what we have been doing for 150 years.