Moments
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Without a dressing room to use, John Gilstrap, a bullfighter (rodeo clown), finishes his makeup in the men's room at the coliseum in Winston-Salem, NC as others come and go about their business.
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The school janitor's daughter keeps up the spirit even after the home team's cheerleaders have lost it during a game that's out of reach.
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Domino parlor in Lampasas, Texas. From a one-day shoot in Lampasas County, Texas on Texas Independence day in 1986.
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A man passes from the waiting room to the makeshift dental clinic in Belle Riviere, Haiti where a team of doctors, nurses and a dentist from Indianapolis spent a week in February, 1995.
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Austin, Texas police protect a klansman as protestors close in on them at the end of a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1983.
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Stranded residents wait to be air-lifted to safety by a Coast Guard helicopter in High Island, Texas Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 as Hurricane Ike moves toward Texas.
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An inmate in the Louisiana IMPACT program is ordered to drop his pants during an inspection.
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A child holds up a hand-made sign in the middle of a packed pro-life crowd rallying outside the Capitol in Austin, Texas.
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Two high school boys change into their tutus prior to a play rehearsal in Winston-Salem, NC.
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A young boy takes a peek from behind the curtains during a fashion show in at Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls Richard Gephardt, Bruce Babbitt and Jesse Jackson are tended to by makeup artist as Paul Simon bides his time prior to a debate in New Orleans. 1988.
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Jim Roland, the father of quadruplets, scooped up one of his babies when she started crying from her swing in the next room, and returned to the bathroom to finish shaving.
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Dr. Bill Claxton works on a sedated dog that'll wake up a little lighter weight and much less male than he used to be.
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On Thanksgiving Day, the sixth day of the Oakdale, La. prison riot, an FBI Swat team from Memphis spent some time doing laundry and wondered when the siege would end.
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Praying for the hostages during the Oakdale prison riot.
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State Senator Ben Bagert finishes a quick mid-afternoon shave as his wife and campaign manager, who'd followed him into the men's room, prompts him to hurry. Bagert, a Republican, was running for US Senate against Bennett Johnston and David Duke.
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Four office workers crowd together to get a better look at the scene of a shooting in the Governmental Building in Baton Rouge.
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An usher at an LSU baseball game tells a youngster to move out of the aisle.
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Elvis impersonator Danny Allen is asked by a woman if he's really Elvis.
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Piano lesson at Oil & Cotton, Dallas
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A volunteer helping erect the Vietnam Veteran's Moving Wall exhibit carries a panel.
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Music lesson at an elementary school.
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A pair of cowboys strike similar poses while leaning against a wall as they talk backstage at the rodeo. Austin, Texas 1982
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A left behind chair in a closed old high school slated for demolition.
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Rays of sunlight pierce the fallen roof of the Fairview Baptist Church as Ed McKee surveys the damage. The 37-year-old church was gutted by a blaze that started in the attic. McKee, a board member, said they'd just spent $37,000 on renovations.
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A homeowner's shirt doesn't fit with his mood as he surveys what's left after an apartment fire in Austin.
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Winston-Salem police arrest a man for drunk and disorderly conduct at an outdoor street festival in downtown.
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A police S.W.A.T. officer helps bank employees out of a window and onto the roof during an extended hostage stand-off. The husband of an employee entered the bank, went into her office and shut the door, shot and killed her and then himself. At the time the picture was made police didn't know if the man was still inside and alive and holding hostages.
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Robert Wilson uses his shirt for a bandage as he waits for an ambulance to arrive after flipping his truck on I-12 in Baton Rouge. He was able to crawl out of the wreckage with only minor injuries.
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Karen Younger wipes away a tear after placing a bunch of fresh flowers at the base of one of the 4,400 wooden crosses in a display across from the Governor's mansion in Baton rouge. The crosses represent the number of abortions performed each day across the country.
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Trainee Hayes, sweat streaming from his shorn head, hears from two drill instructors simultaneously at the IMPACT program for first-time offenders at a Louisiana prison.
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Brodie Alford dangles his legs out of an elevated auto after riding up in it on a hydraulic lift prior to changing the oil.
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Employees and a friend kill time outside an auto repair shop on N. Foster Blvd. in Baton Rouge.
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A construction worker directs a tractor moving parking blocks during a resurfacing job.
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A tire change is a family affair outside a shop on Plank Road in Baton Rouge.
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Little brother gets ready to go while his mom and aunt fuss with his sister, a beauty pageant competitor.
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Mom holds her sleeping son as the young beauty queen heads for a Saturday competition.
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Mom and aunt team up getting the little contestant dressed.
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Hair and makeup is the aunt's specialty.
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Street football action.
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LSU vs Georgia college basketball.
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LSU pitcher Chad Ogea sits in a field of clover looking for a lucky charm during practice in Omaha, Nebraska during the week of the 1991 College World Series.
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LSU players celebrate after the final out of the College World Series in Omaha in 1991, the school's first National Championship.
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An umpire is physically assaulted by a high school baseball coach during a game.
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Pickup game with an well-worn ball in Austin.
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Packers DT Robert Brown gives Saints rookie OT Jim Dombrowski a big welcome to the NFL.
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Steely-eyed concentration durin junior's tennis tournament action.
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Minor league hockey action in Winston-Salem.
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Melvin Lewis loses control as James Spears applies pressure during a high school basketball game.
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The Tiny Packers quarterback makes a futile effort to stave off a pack of Tiny Greyhounds pursuers.
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Approaching runner on the Santa Fe Trail in Dallas. Shot while riding my bike.
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A giant flag dwarfs hockey players during the National Sports Festival in Baton Rouge in July, 1985.
News, sports, slices of life... this and that from my newspaper years archives. The Daily Texan, Winston-Salem Journal, The Morning Advocate, Indianapolis Star, The Dallas Morning News