Soldiers of the Rwanda Defense Force patrol a meadow near the summit of Mount Karisimbi, a 14,800-foot volcano bordering Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Soldiers protect the highly volatile region from neighboring guerilla forces and armed gorilla poachers.

A room on the eighth floor of an apartment block in Borodyanka, missing its entire midsection after relentless shelling by Russian forces. The rural town is located on the main axis of Russia's failed advance on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the destruction and killings of civilians in Borodyanka was "significantly more dreadful" than in nearby Bucha, where 412 bodies had so far been discovered.

A model wears a laced Emily Riggs wedding on the cliffs of Elk, CA.

A silverback mountain gorilla pounds his chest, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, southern Ugana. Shot for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Advertising a fruited specialty beer at Gilded Goat Brewing Co., Fort Collins, Colorado.

Horse ranch below Estes Cone and, just south, Longs Peak.

A wild mare on Shackleford Banks, the southernmost barrier island of the Outer Banks. Read my story for Bitter Southerner magazine, "The Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks."

U.S. Marines of the 2nd Marine Division wait to board CH-53 Stallions as part of what Lieutenant Colonel Ayers called the largest air assault exercise on the east coast in approximately 10 years, June 13, 2019.

A bride and groom pose for pictures on the Arkansas River near Buena Vista, Colorado.

A boy carries grass for his family's thatched hut in the farmlands below the Virunga volcanoes.

A young boy salutes Air Force One as it lands on the tarmac at Wilmington International Airport on a Wednesday afternoon in September, 2020, a month before the general election.

Then-President Donald Trump arrives at Wilmington International Airport a month before the 2020 general election. Trump told the crowd how important North Carolina was to his reelection hopes. He said a recent poll showed that he had a two-point lead in the state — “But I think that it’s probably 10." He went on to win by 4%.

General Francois Olenga yells to his troops in Friench, “We must send the rebels back to Rwanda!” Olenga had flown in a helicopter to the retreated position of his army, the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near Lake Kivu in eastern DRC, where he led a war rally surrounded by thousands of his soldiers on a large soccer field.

Two brothers on a family shoot at a ranch in Loveland, CO.

Protestors march through the streets of Goma during the M23 Rebellion in November 2012, calling for the removal of then-President Joseph Kabila.

Oyster farmer Evan Gadow on the Intracoastal waters of Stump Sound, where fresh water meets salt water and creates an ideal habitat for oyster harvests. Read the story and photo essay here.

A night fisherman on Lake Kivu, Rwanda, rows out in the early evening, singing old Kinyarwanda hymns. After the sun sets, the captain tells his three-boat crew to light lanterns hung from the sides of the boats, drawing schools of sambaza (sardine) fish to large nets spread beneath the boats.

A bullet-riddled truck carries debris from buildings struck by Russian missiles through the small town of Irpin, Ukraine, where 290 bodies were discovered and most buildings destroyed.

A boy herds long-horned Ankole-Watusi cattle on the road from Juba to Bor, in the vast savanna that separates Sub-Saharan Africa from the Sahara Desert.

A young couple in northern California.

A woman in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.

Mai-Mai rebels gather 10 kilometers south of the M23 rebels’ position on Lake Kivu. The ragtag guerrilla group is known for sticking tree branches in AK-47 barrels to give them invincibility in war.

Then-Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon visits the Kigali Genocide Memorial in 2012. (Shot for the Associated Press)

Members of Port City Proud remove tree limbs from an elderly woman's backyard after Hurricane Florence passed through Wilmington, NC. The group was created in response to widespread complains of price gouging by out-of-state tree removal companies. Read the story here.

Mike Hicks lifts a grill onto his back porch in a flooded neighborhood near the Black River in Currie, North Carolina on Wednesday evening, September 19, 2018. (Shot for Port City Daily while covering Hurricane Florence)

A man from Irpin, near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, operates a machine that cuts steel for the production of bulletproof vests inside a large manufacturing facility in western Ukraine.

A Ukrainian-controlled checkpoint north Kyiv weeks after Russian troops retreated from an attempt to take the capital, April 2022.

Freddie Fralin looks back at family members after receiving a 25-to-31-year sentence for the 2017 murder of Montez Greene, Tuesday, August 20, 2019. (Read the story here.)