Portfolio by Elie Gardner
Date: 4/23/2008 Album ID: 502141
Elie Gardner started at the Post-Dispatch as the online photo editor in July 2006. Now, she works as a night picture editor and staff photographer. After graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism, Gardner attended a six week journalism seminar at the Poynter Institute, where she learned a lot about journalism and palmetto bugs. Gardner enjoys working with pictures, whether she's shooting, editing or producing a project for the web. When she can't work with pictures, she enjoys walking her yellow lab Baley, reading, traveling, eating cupcakes and exploring new restaurants.
The Buds of Peace prepare to perform in a cultural assembly at Russell Elementary School in Columbia, Mo. Their cultural backgrounds range from Middle-Eastern to Latina but the girls all share an idea for peace, which they try to convey through their singing and dancing.
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Hannah Robbins and Allyn Bottorff cross backstage during a scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The theater technology class spent two months building the set. The backstage ladder is placed next to the cloth screen to remind actors and actresses walking backstage to stay at least three feet away from the screen. If they don't, the entire screen sways from their movement.
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Albert Wagner, 82, rests in his East Cleveland home two days after coming home from the hospital.  Wagner has congestive heart failure and diabetes, among other health problems.  Wagner has painted since he was 50, after having a affirmation he calls the Miracle at Midnight, when he came across a board with spilled paint on it.  He says the board spoke to him, and he has painted ever since.  He classifies his art as folk art.
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Steven Cogar uses toothpicks and scissors to block an artery after the dehorning of a cow at the farm of David Horner. Dr. Loren Schultz and four vet students dehorned three cows because the cows were becoming aggressive with their horns. Of all the things that you have to do for cows, this is my least favorite, said Horner. Schultz said it's the bloodiest work of a large animal vet.
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A handprint is seen on the window of the Metro in Washington, D.C. in July 2006.  The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority operates the second largest rail transit system in the United States.  In the 2006 fiscal year, 206 milllion trips were taken on Metro.
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Individuals from the Grand Forks area wait for the BRAC Commissioners to leave the Grand Forks Air Force Base June 22, 2005.  The base was put on the list for downsizing and possible closure, so many locals showed up to support the base, which has a tremendous economic impact on the area.
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Curtis Brown of the Columbia Police Department attends the visitation of Molly Bowden at the Hearnes Center in Columbia, Mo.  Bowden was shot on duty by Richard Evans during a traffic stop; the following day Brown was shot in the arm by Evans during a foot chase.  The chase ended when Evans fatally shot himeself.  After a month in the hospital, Bowden died Feb. 10, 2005.
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Rehab El-Buri prays during Friday Prayer at the mosque in the mosque's library while Hend Alrawi, 7, sits nearby.  The children from the Islamic School pray in the room during Friday Prayer so they do not overcrowd the main mosque.  El-Buri arrived after the prayer had started, and, because Friday Prayer is the mosque's busiest prayer, there was little space left in the main area.
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Model Florence Emeka soaks in a freshwater hydrotherapy tub at  the Emerald Isle Day Spa in Swansea, Ill., on Feb. 18, 2008. The hydrotherapy tub can be prepared with freshwater or with additives, such as sea weed, aromatherapy and stress relief. A 35 minute freshwater soak costs $35.
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Water floods fields and two country roads after heavy rains, five miles southwest of Pembina, N.D., in the Summer of 2005. Governor John Hoeven declared the northeastern portion of North Dakota a disaster area after surveying damage to the land and crops.
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Mary Jones, 3, of St. Louis Hills throws snow in the air outside of the Starbucks at Lansdowne Road and Chippewa Road as her mother, Martina Jones (not pictured), buys hot chocolate for the crew on March 4, 2008.
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Frost scraped on a windshield mimics the shape of the St. Louis Arch in December 2006.
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Jennifer Stoces (right) kisses her dog Ruby, a Jack Russell Terrier, at the 3rd Annual Purina Pooches in the Ballpark at Busch Stadium on June 10, 2007. Her husband, Christopher Stoces, attended the game as well. The Stoces have tried to come to the event for the past two years but were never able to nab tickets. This year they were ready the minute tickets went on sale online. The pair love baseball and were the last couple to get married at the old Busch Stadium.
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A quarter century after the virus first hit the national psyche, some individuals with HIV or AIDS say their acquaintances and loved ones are still afraid to touch them, for fear of contracting the disease. Sherry Huell contracted HIV in 1987. She is a recovering alcoholic and cocaine addict. Massage therapist Ben Ray has treated Huell for the last two years through Medicaid's Project Aids care waiver. Ray became a licensed massage therapist in 1997.
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Tracy Pickens, 18, tuck points a wall as part of the North St. Louis YouthBuild organization on March 11, 2008. Pickens hopes to one day open a masonry business with his brothers. He's done masonry work for five years.
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