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Pictures of the Year 2012
Date: 12/19/2012 Album ID: 1584893
Photos by Rebecca Barnett
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Here are our staff photographers’ picks for Photos of the Year. We asked each of our photographers to choose their favorite shots of 2012.
REBECCA BARNETT | The Roanoke Times May 14, 2012 Jillian Huntress, 25, snuggles with her middle child, Levi Riddle, 2, in their Roanoke County home. Levi was birthed at home with the assistance of two midwives in 2010. Huntress said she was left feeling unsatisfied with the hospital birth of her first child, so she looked for other safe options. It's more than just a baby coming out of a woman, Huntress said. It makes a mother, and I feel like the birth process can affect a mother for the rest of her life.
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Kyle Green | The Roanoke Times 3/3/2012 Christiansburg High School team members swarm Jordan Price after he hit the winning shot at the buzzer over Amherst County High School during the Group A Boys Division 4 VHSL 2012 Basketball Championships quarterfinals held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia. Christiansburg defeated Amherst County 47-45. Amherst County player AJ Richerson (left, 23) is also pictured.
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STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times Photo taken January 18, 2011 Sally Evans, 67, of Roanoke, a member of the Blue Ridge Birding Club, peers through her binoculars to get a close-up view of birds along the Cherry Blossom Trail at the Greenfield Education and Training Center in Botetourt on Wednesday morning.
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Daniel Lin | The Roanoke Times Cadets utilized camouflage in any means possible to help blend better into the environment. Photo by Daniel Lin and shot on 10/06/2012.
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Matt Gentry | The Roanoke Times 5/27/2012 Virginia McWhorter, background, watches from the front porch of her Willow Springs estate on US Route 42 in Newport as a flight of bike riders pass buy Saturday morning. Approximately 550 bicyclist’s riders rode in years Mountains of Misery, an annual bike ride hosted by the New River Bicycle Association with a course through Giles and Craig and Counties.
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Kyle Green / The Roanoke Times 7/21/2012 Firefighters battle a blaze breaking through the walls of General Truck Body in Roanoke, Virginia. Crews responded sometime after 7 p.m. and used three ladder trucks to spray water down and fight the fire. According to Roanoke Fire-EMS spokeswoman Tiffany Bradbury, two firefighters were treated for injuries that included heat exposure and an ankle injury. She said their injuries were not life threatening. The blaze was estimated to have done 1.5 million dollars in damage.
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Daniel Lin | The Roanoke Times Members of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets stand guard for 32 minutes following the lighting of the ceremonial candle at midnight on April 16, 2012. The candle will remain lit for the duration of the day and will be guarded again by cadets for 32 minutes prior to extinguishing at midnight. Photo by Daniel Lin and shot on 04/16/2012.
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Virginia Tech students pass the flame of a memorial candle to each other on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia Monday April 16, 2012. The vigil was one of several events held in observance of the fifth anniversary of the April 16 2007 shootings on campus. (AP Photo / The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry)
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REBECCA BARNETT | The Roanoke Times February 16, 2012 A tree is seen in the raindrops that have collected on the front window of a car on the corner of Elm Ave. and Jefferson St. in Roanoke on Thursday. The National Weather Service reported that Roanoke received about .14 inches of rain Thursday.
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Cross country skiers cross the old golf course with Butt Mountain in the background Monday. The Mountain Lake hotel is closed for the winter season but guests can still visit the Mountain Lake Conservancy property, which feature 22 miles of trails on 2,600 acres by parking at a trail access parking lot, one mile past the hotel on route 613.
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Daniel Lin | The Roanoke Times Fireworks are shot from the Drill Field on the Virginia Tech campus last Thursday night after the Class of 2014 Ring Premiere in Burruss Hall. This view is from the Blacksburg Fire Department radio communications tower on Brush Mountain. For reference, Slusher Tower, a 12-story dormitory visible under the arch of Cassell Coliseum on the lower right, is approximately 3.54 miles from the camera. Photo by Daniel Lin and shot on 10/18/2012.
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STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times Photo taken November 27, 2012 Roanoke Valley jazz musicians will pay tribute to Eddie Wiggins on Tuesday night at the Dumas Center. But, Wiggins won't be on the sidelines. The retired bandleader, who is 91, still performs and will direct the show and play some songs, too. He's been playing the clarinet since he was 14. He also plays the saxophone and flute.
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REBECCA BARNETT | The Roanoke Times April 13, 2012 Catherine Turner, 16, of Franklin County, waits to throw t-shirts to spectators during the Salem Red Sox game against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans on April 13, 2012. Turner is part of the Red Sox Diamond Crew.
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Kyle Green / The Roanoke Times 8/1/2012 Perry Jones, University of Virginia football running back, Senior, 5' 8, 185 lbs.
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STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times Photo taken September 5, 2012 Nick Shreffler, 22, of Roanoke, holds the mate to his lost 8' python outside his snake shed that he built in his backyard. The python that got away slipped through a 2 crack in the floor and has been missing for a few days. Shreffler is pretty sure she's pregnant, too. He said she can survive in the heat, but, not in the cold. He has 15 snakes in his collection.
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Carolina Zamora-Lopez, 18, rides the Star Line Trolley to downtown Roanoke with her son Josh Ramos-Zamora, 3.
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ERIC BRADY | The Roanoke Times Taken 02/07/2012 The fullmoon rises Tuesday evening as seen from The Patrick Henry. The homes in the foreground are in SE Roanoke toward Vinton.
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SAM DEAN | The Roanoke Times 6/7/12--Wild ponies graze on the Wilburn Ridge in the Mt. Roger's national recreation area.
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