Kerry Hoody, commonly known as “the bait guy,” rakes the bottom of the tank with a dipper for dead minnows at his business Huron Live Bait in Imlay City, Michigan on September 20, 2020. “It’s all-day work, nonstop. And at any time of day the minnows could be running down at the river and I’d stop what I was doing and drive the bait truck over there. You always are trying to be one step ahead of the minnows.”
The Red Raiders Marching Band kicks off their 2024 marching season with a week long band camp featuring music under the theme “Dancing Through Time.”
A Trump supporter, left, veers from his intended path toward President Trump to angrily approach the Trump protesters before getting stopped dead in his tracks by a protester, right, who caught him right in time to stop a fight in Freeland, Michigan on September 10, 2020.
Emerald shiners caught from the waters of Lake Huron try to create a current while inside of a seine in the tanks of Huron Live Bait in Imlay City, Michigan on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
A young man herds his cattle down a rural street in San Felipe Ayutla, Puebla, Mexico.
Within the markets of Cholula, the Los Voladores de Papantla - an ancient Mesoamerican ritual belonging to the Totonac indigenous group from the regions of Papantla in Veracruz and other parts of central Mexico - is performed for all to see. This display of cultural heritage begins with five or so people climbing a 90-foot-tall pole. They prepare for the main event at the top, four of them tying rope around their waist while one or two remain at the top center playing handmade wooden instruments such as the flute and a drum. They begin spinning on the wooden square platform, and the four dive off off headfirst down with their arms spread free, soaring through the air as they cascade slowly to the ground below.
The Red Raiders Marching Band kicks off their 2024 marching season with a week long band camp featuring music under the theme “Dancing Through Time.”
A tornado rips through Port Austin, a village at the tip of Michigan’s thumb, on Saturday, June 26, 2021, leaving decapitated trees, damaged homes, power outages, and devastation to several families and businesses in its wake. The tornado was on the ground for 11 minutes.
Four-month-old Josselin puts on her fluffy tutu and flower headband to kickstart her dancing career.
The Eastern Michigan State Fair hosts a derby every night for the last week of July of 2021 in Imlay City, Michigan. Unlike the traditional demo, the Figure 8 Demolition Derby Race is about your ability to outthink and out-maneuver the other drivers, while being the first to complete the required laps.
Keeping themselves within COVID-19’s and Central Michigan University’s new safety regulations, the house at the corner of Washington and Bellows Street steps out to their porch for the night with beers tapped to their hands in anticipation for honking drivers in Mount Pleasant, Michigan on Friday, September 25, 2020. Setting out their homemade “U Honk We Drink” sign, the household of guys received several honks every other minute, toasting to the honking cars and taking a swig from their easily-accessible drinks.
The Spartan Marching Band kicks off their 2023 season with their week-long camp in the dead heat of summer from July 31 through August 4 at Imlay City High School in Imlay City, Michigan.
Erin Siebert, Central Michigan University junior, rehearses her piece Where The Sidewalk Ends, choreographed by student choreographer Laken Hoody, in Rose 127 studio on the campus of Central Michigan University on Monday, April 5, 2021 for the UTDC Spring Concert.
Roses stand somber in the engravings of the names of the fallen at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City on September 11, 2023.