Surrounded by 100 sacks of ice, Billy Copeland unloads 50 lb bags of ice for Crystal Ice Co. in the June 103 degree heat. There were over 42 consecutive days of heat over 100 degrees to a new record in Dallas.
About six a.m. on a hot, August day, Keith Hale became intrigued by the dense fog hovering over a harbor near downtown Chicago. The boats looked to him like ghost-ships. With a zoom lens he converted his Saturday intrigue into a weather shot.
A gas laden tap plagues farmer Lee Hatten Berger. Flaring off the built up gas pressure from his methane rich well every three days, he defuses his water bomb.
A lone sailboat heads out onto Lower Lough Erne. The magnificent lake area of Fermanagh County in Northern Ireland is largely without tourists because of the troubles.
An Adirondack lake assaulted by acid rains flowing out of the midwest and Canada, is aided in its fight for biological survival by a load of 'sweetening' lime.
While the ball bobs in the water, water polo rivals Steve Campbell (left) of Buchser H.S. in Santa Clara, CA. and Dave Shannahan of Fremont H.S. in Sunnyvale, CA jockey for position. Buchser up Fremont.