Through our lens: Jesse Tinsley

have the privilege to watch, through my camera's viewfinder, many significant and minor happenings in the Spokane area and share them with the readers of the Spokesman-Review. Here are some of my favorite photos.

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Sun., March 25, 2018

Greg Jensen stands and salutes as "Taps" is played nearby during military honors offered at the chapel nearby Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake. Jensen, a Vietnam era veteran of the Air Force, goes to the cemetery almost every day with his lawn chair and a Bible to visit the grave of his wife, Estrella, his wife of 42 years. "It's been sixteen months and I miss her every day."

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Aerial of Duncan Garden in Manito Park. From directly overhead, the grass and flowers appear as a quilt of colors.

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Young friends of Slade Groene, a Lakes Middle School students, mourn outside Real Life Ministries Wednesday afternoon where the funeral for Slade and his mother Brenda Kay Groene was held. The two were victims of the triple murder in Wolf Lodge, east of Coeur d'Alene.

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Fireworks explode over Spokanes Riverfront Park Tuesday, July 4, 2017.

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Above the farm fields of the Rathdrum Prairie, the prolonged lightning storm puts on an ethereal light show for those awake for it around in the wee hours of Saturday, Aug. 8, 1999. This view is looking southeast from the Rathdrum area, and Canfield Mountain, on Coeur d'Alene's eastern border, is visible as a bump on the lower left horizon. Power was knocked out in many parts of the panhandle, and heavy rains followed, especially in Coeur d'Alene, where roads flooded quickly early Saturday morning from therain mixed with hail.

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Sgt. Joseph Rozewicz, foreground, and Spc. Tristan S. Nielsen, behind, kneel before the memorial displays for Sgt. Nathan R. Beyers and Spc. Nicholas W. Newby Saturday, July 16, 2011 at Lake City Community Church in Coeur d'Alene where a joint memorial service was held for the two young men who were killed in Iraq July 7. Rozewicz and Nielsen served with the two men from Coeur d'Alene and shared their memories of the two fallen service men.

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Emotional Farewell - John Stockton, usually stoic, can hardly contain the emotion as thousands of Jazz fans give him a standing ovation at the beginning of his going away party Saturday evening, June 7, 2003, at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Stockton retired after 19 seasons with the Jazz.

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Asparagus 2017 Luis Gasca is a professional asparagus harvester, a job that means bending double most of the time, grabbing the heads of spears that are 10 inches off the ground. Harvesters often start before daybreak in the fertile Columbia River Valley to avoid the extreme heat of the day.

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NERVES OF STEEL -- Nearly 200 feet above the town of Wardner, rescue team member Bob Burden (cq) carefully rappels off the top of a Silver Mountain gondola car to reach in the interior during rescue exercises Saturday in Kellogg. In case of an evacuation, team members will ride down the cables on bicycle-like contraptions, drop inside, then lower riders to the ground on a pulley system. Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

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Dick Gulman, who lives up Rapid Lightning Creek Road north of Sandpoint, has cultivated a relationship with several bears in his rural neighborhood to the point where this large bear, a 300-pound-plus black bear nicknamed Big Y by Gulman, will take a powdered doughnut from his mouth. Gulman has spent much of his life pursuing hunting trophies with a bow and arrow, and feels that he's not in danger from his forest neighbors.

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Joseph Chamberlain, center, holds Trevor Caldwell, 4, as he look up and shouts "I love you, Daddy," while an honor guard folds the flag over the casket of Chad Caldwell, Trevor's father, Saturday, May 10, 2008 at Caldwell's graveside at Spokane Memorial Gardens. Caldwell was killed in Mosul, Iraq April 30. At right is Caldwell's younger son, Coen, 2. Chamberlain was a fellow soldier of Staff Sgt. Chad Caldwell.

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2017 aerial view shows where a farmer cut the words “Freeman” and “Sam” into a field not far from Freeman High School, where a shooting took the life of student Sam Strahan. Freeman grad Brandon Cronk wrote the words the day after the shooting.

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Emotion - Brian T. Moyer sheds tears of relief and hugs his family in the Kootenai County Justice Building hallway after being acquitted of having sex with a teenage girl at Children's Village.

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Tree crews cleaned most of the downed trees off of S. Arthur St. between 27th and 28th Ave. Friday night, but early on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015 the lines and broken poles await repair.

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Emotion - Retiree Henry Bills, right, hugs Barbara Harris after President-elect Barack Obama's speech Saturday night, Nov. 4, 2008. "I grew up with "Whites Only"," said Bills, 65, with tears in his eyes. "God has given me something special. I'm overwhelmed." Both were at the Democrat gathering at Cricket's in downtown Coeur d'Alene.

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This image, from the Lucky Friday mine, was published 12/5/2010 in the Spokesman-Review. The difference is that this one has the large lens flare on the left removed in Photoshop.

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2016 From an aerial view, light dislays from the Chinese Lantern Festival light up Spokane's Riverfront Park near dusk.

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Cranberries 2017 A harvest crew works inside a wooden boom filled with millions of floating cranberries at McPhail Family Farms near Ilwaco, Washington. McPhail is one of the largest cranberry growers in Washington state.

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2017 In one of the final photos made before it opens, the new ice ribbon skating attraction is seen at Riverfront Park.

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Jose Gasca, working in an onion field in Touchet, Washington, lifts and trims the roots and stalks of Walla Walla sweet onions in June 2017. Only a handful of farmers still raise the special onions named after the largest town of the region.

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A workman walks gingerly along the top of a 225-foot smoke stack at the Steam Plant Square in downtown Spokane Thursday, June 15, 2017. A work is part of a major renovation of the iconic 225-foot smoke stacks where masons will repoint the gaps in the 100-year-old brickwork, Steam Plants website says, After completion these stacks will last another 100 years.

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This aerial photo shows the Spokane County Courthouse on Oct. 26, 2013, in front of the Public Safety Building and the Spokane County Jail. Spokane police say an intern in the city prosecutor’s office was assaulted Tuesday morning in a women’s restroom in the Public Safety Building.

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Raechel Caldwell, wife of Chad Caldwell, who was killed in Iraq, accepts the flag from his casket from Maj. General Edgar E. Stanton III at the grave site at Spokane Memorial Gardens Saturday, May 10, 2008. The Cheney native was killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul, Iraq April 30, 2008. He leaves behind his wife and two sons, Trevor and Coen.

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New Year's 2009 -- Fireworks burst around the Riverfront Park clock tower at midnight on New Year's Eve Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008.

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Oysters 2017 Eric Hall of Taylor Shellfish Farms inspects a “shigoku” oyster taken from Willapa Bay. “Shigoku” means ultimate in Japanese and the Taylor Shellfish Farms has perfected the growing techniques of the most desirable oysters for restaurants and oyster bars.

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SAYING GOODBY TO NICK--Classmate Robert Smith, comforted by friend Jeff Vogl (cq, places his hand on the casket of Nick Scherling at the cemetery Friday afternoon in Post Falls. Many of his middle school classmates and friends attended, along with family and friends from church. The 13-year-old was struck and killed Monday night by a driver who drifted off the road.

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Michele and John Barron stand quietly after laying a paving stone inscribed with their son's name in the walkway surrounding the new memorial being completed outside the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Tuesday, oct. 27, 2015. Josh Barron, a U.S. Marine, was killed in the crash of a V-22 Osprey aircraft in Hawai'i in May 2015.

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