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i had a great time shooting Shiprock HS against Kirtland Central HS on Saturday…two district championships! i was pretty excited about it because i haven’t shot much basketball this season, and i was not let down. those Shiprock and Kirtland fans are passionate about their teams, and although the both games were pretty scrappy, there was a sense of great sportsmanship throughout. and the boy’s game at Chieftain Pit in Shiprock was PACKED. i didn’t get out of the parking lot for about an hour after the game was done — i’m really glad i took my laptop to send photos. enjoy

-also, check out the galleries on The Daily Times’ Website for more photos:

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photos from the boy’s game in Shiprock

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Shiprock High School super-fan Malan Jones, 19, races around the court to spark the crowd's excitement during the second half of Saturday's district championship game between the Shiprock Chieftains and the Kirtland Central Broncos. KCHS beat SHS 63-56 at the Chieftain Pit.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Shiprock’s Colby Nahkai tries to brings in an offensive rebound Saturday night against Kirtland Central’s Damian Charley at The Chieftain Pit.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Fans sitting on the Shiprock High School fan side cheer and reflect on the first half of play Saturday while the teams head into the locker rooms halftime.

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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Kirtland Central’s Damian Charley, left, snags a defensive rebound during the second quarter Saturday at The Chieftain Pit.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Shiprock’s Jeff Tsosie walks off the court as the Kirtland Central boys basketball team celebrates at the end of the Broncos’ 63-56 win Saturday night at The Chieftain Pit.

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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; James Gilbert assists John Kendall on Monday with cleanup of the accident site in Kendall's bedroom in Aztec.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Butch Ozbun shows off a half-stock fowler in his collection Feb. 22 in his workshop.

photos from the funeral for Lance Cpl. Alejandro J. Yazzie.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Lt. Col. Mike Callanan, with the Marines out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., holds his white barracks cover, or dress uniform hat, at his side while he watches a slideshow of pictures of Marine Lance Cpl. Alejandro J. Yazzie set to music during the memorial service for Yazzie on Friday at the Farmington Civic Center. According to the Department of Defense, Yazzie died Feb. 16 while supporting combat operations in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Calvert Owen, left, hugs Geraldine Jones on Friday while Owen waits outside the Farmington Civic Center to participate in the flag line during the funeral for Marine Lance Cpl. Alejandro J. Yazzie, 23, of Rock Point, Ariz. Owen, also of Rock Point, is Lance Cpl. Yazzie’s cousin. According to the Department of Defense, Yazzie died Feb. 16 while supporting combat operations in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Lamar Roberts, a student at San Juan College, sits on the the dock by the pond at Riverside Park on Friday, fishing. Roberts went fishing a group of friends from Aztec, who were all out enjoying the seasonably warmer weather.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Jaylen Jeffries, 3, shakes a noisemaker while parading through the halls with his mother, Jalea Steen, at San Juan College’s Child and Family Development Center on Thursday for the center’s 20th anniversary.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Children at the Child and Family Development Center at San Juan College, like the babies pictured here riding a red wagon, parade though the halls of the center Thursday for the center’s 20th anniversary.

this little guy was having fun time, spinning around in his ‘super-hero’ cape.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Todd Robinson, 2, spins around in circles while wearing a cape after a parade Thursday in his Toddler Two class. The class, along with the rest of the classes at San Juan College’s Child and Family Development Center, participated in the celebration of the center’s 20th anniversary by marching through the classroom halls.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Kirtland Central High School forward Amanda Kerr goes up for two points against Shiprock High School during the district championship game at KCHS. Kirtland took the first place title, with a 46-27 win over Shiprock.

…and the Kirtland Central girls took the district title

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Kirtland Central’s girls basketball team celebrates and hold its District 1-4A championship trophy while the home crowd cheers Saturday after the Lady Broncos’ 46-27 win over Shiprock at Bronco Arena.

i really like to contribute photos for news assignments that supplement or compliment the reporter’s coverage. it’s satisfying to find a visual solution to a tricky story, or to make photos that have more purpose than just relaying the information of what’s immediately in the frame. working the day to day and “feeding the beast,” it’s easy to become comfortable in editing for the safe/expected shot (and at many publications, that may be the only way to do it), but i think doing so at the expense of further developing your eye (what you personally bring to the table as a storyteller) and challenging yourself can keep you from growing as a visual journalist, which would be a mistake.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Carolyn Evans, with the Isaiah 42:16 Ministries jail and prison ministry, enters the church at 1300 North Dustin Avenue for the ribbon cutting Nov. 5 for Pastor Toby Chavez's Straight Up Outreach and Prison Ministry Inc. transitional housing facility.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Pastor Toby Chavez, of Straight Up Outreach and Prison Ministry Inc., shares his personal story of prison, recovery and finding faith to attendees of the Nov. 5 ribbon-cutting event for Chavez's new transitional housing project at North Dustin Avenue and East Tycksen Drive.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Shiprock High School cadet Pvt. Christina Garrow, 14, laughs while she shares a relaxed moment with her older sister, cadet Sgt. Savannah Garrow, 18, after performing during Bloomfield High School's JROTC invitational Saturday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Local JROTC students compete in the "drill down" segment of Saturday's JROTC competition in Bloomfield. All students were invited to the floor to compete in following verbal commands, and were eliminated, one-by-one, until there was a winner.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Cadet private Zack Hicks, 15, a member of Piedra Vista’s Army JROTC color guard team, awaits his turn to be tested Saturday in the color guard event at Bloomfield High School’s JROTC competition. Local Marine recruiters Sgt. Nate Bitsui and Cpl. Dustin Francisco graded the event.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Volunteer firefighter Buck Hamilton, left, catches his breath while fellow firefighter Drew Placencio re-hydrates after being some of the first on the scene at a structure fire at 3439 U.S. 64 on Friday afternoon. The home, a double-wide trailer with additions in Waterflow, will probably be a total loss, San Juan County Fire Department District 1 Fire Captain Donovan Mack said.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Larry Gibson hands a balloon to Bruce Salisbury, an Air Force war veteran, on behalf of the Blue Star Mothers on Saturday. The balloons were given to attendees to release en masse at the end of “God Bless America,” sung by Lindsay Clark.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Rock Point's Ty White, 18, has a hard time freeing his hand after a ride on bull Top Rail on Sunday during the College-High School Challenge Rodeo at McGee Park. His brief but rough ride failed to qualify.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Reinforced concrete pipes, also called storm pipes, drain into the Animas River on Monday near East Piñon Street. The city is seeking public input in trying to decide whether it should update the existing drainage infrastructure. Farmington will hold a public meeting on water drainage concerns 6 p.m. Thursday at the Farmington Civic Center.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Line workers David Elder and Chris Woods, with Farmington Electric Utility System, help navigate a replacement power pole through a tangle of utility lines Sunday following an accident involving one vehicle at the corner of 20th Street and Hutton Avenue.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Chris Woods, a line worker with Farmington Electric Utility System, helps steady a new power pole prior to replacing the broken one at the corner of 20th Street and Hutton Avenue on Sunday. James Ellsaesser, line foreman for Farmington Electric, said a half-ton Chevy pickup truck hit the power pole at around 11:30 a.m., causing a small power outage for a few hours. Police dispatch stated no one was injured in the one-vehicle accident.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Andrea Garcia assists one of her Farmington Special Preschool students, Dylan Poyer, 5, with making an “Inny the Inchworm” after helping Kayde McGraw, 4, with her inchworm near the end of the school day Thursday. Farmington Municipal Schools board members discussed additions to the school at Thursday night’s meeting.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Claudia Giron, of Española, sorts her rag rugs and rugs made from men's ties while Duka Subedi, who also creates rag rugs, stands behind her during the last day of the Rag Rug Festival and Design Collective at the Farmington Museum on Sunday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Farmington's Nicole Hampton fights for a ball against Moriarty's Nikki Eaton, fouling her in the process, during the first round of the state tournament at Hutchison Stadium on Saturday. FHS lost the hard-fought game, 1-0.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; The boys cross country district 1-4A race starts Saturday at the meet at Riverview Golf Course.

Light matters

photos used in NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams report on Lorainne Melgosa, featuring Shiprock military widow Charlene Westbrook

here’s a few photos from the last week

November photos, a few more news assignments/happenings than normal…nice

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