Through our lens: Tyler Tjomsland
My goal as a photojournalist is to document news events in ways that enrich perspectives and spark reaction within our community: to make readers care about others and the world around them. I feel extremely fortunate to work for a newspaper that still supports great documentary photography and to serve a community that passionately connects with our work.
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A firefighter watches as a blaze approaches on Friday, June 18, 2014, in Malette, Wash. In mid-July, four lightning strikes started four fires in the Methow Valley. Within three days, the fires merged and turned into the largest wildfire in state history, burning more than 256,000 acres and costing the state $60 million to fight. Around 300 homes were destroyed, including most of the town of Pateros. Damage to livestock and agricultural land was devastating.
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Doug Grumback, 52, a fourth generation Ferry County rancher, stands in a forest near the Canadian border where the northern portion of the Stickpin Fire overtook 12 head of his cattle during a wildfire on Wednesday, Aug 26, 2015, near Frog Spring in the Colville National Forest near Danville, Wash.
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Emma Franco, carries Jovonnie Lobato as she walks through the empty space of what used to be her home on Friday, July 18, 2014, in Pateros, Wash. “I have nothing left,” she said. “No papers, no clothes.”
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Mandi Anderson takes in the sight of hundreds of origami cranes her Lantern Taphouse co-workers, customers and friends folded in her honor after she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer earlier this year on Thursday, July 20, 2017, at the Cracker Building in Spokane, Wash. The group folded over a thousand cranes - some pictured here- and held a benefit concert in her honor.
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Peruvian shepherd Adrian Alvarado Baldeon's sheep bed down on a ridge where he typically prefers to bed them on the top of ridges so that predators, like wolves, have to advace up-hill to attack them on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Dakie laughs as she rolls on the carpet in her parents' apartment on Friday, February 22, 2013, in Spokane, Wash. Dakie won't start school until next fall, so she will spend a large amount of time with her mother in the apartment. Patrick said she often asks him when she will be able to go to school. “I tell her ‘tomorrow,’” he said.
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Congolese refugee Dakie Tshilobo, 4, stands, wide-eyed with her mother Jolie Ngenda, 25, and father Patrick Kazadi, 32, after they landed at Spokane International Airport, late Thursday night, February 7, 2013, in Spokane, Wash. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported last month an 8 percent increase in the number of people seeking asylum worldwide from 2011 to 2012. Last yearís total was the highest since 2003.
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Kenneth Sims is congratulated by his father and coach Kenneth Sims. Sr. and mother Tina after defeating Luis Sednado in the 2013 USA National Boxing Championships on Friday, April 5, 2013, at Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights, Wash.
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Triathletes briefly emerge from Lake Coeur d'Alene before re-entering for the second half of the swim portion of the 2012 Coeur d'Alene Ironman on Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Lake Coeur d'Alene in Coeur d'Alene, Id.
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Washington State Cougars running back James Williams (32) hurdles Nevada Wolf Pack defensive back Asauni Rufus (2) during the first half of a college football game on Saturday, September 23, 2017, at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash.
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Washington State Cougars quarterback Tyler Hilinski (3) is mobbed by teammates after WSU defeated Boise State in triple overtime on Saturday, September 9, 2017, at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash.
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Nancy Nelson a member of the activist group Raging Grannies is escorted to a police cruiser after she and two other protesters blocked railroad tracks near 2302 East Trent to protest the movement of oil and coal trains through Spokane on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in east Spokane, Wash.
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Supporters listen as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks on Thursday, March 24, 2016, at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Wash.
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Major Clarence E. Grimes is escorted into an award ceremony where he was presented with the French Legion of Honor award on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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Members of the Nez Perce tribe react as an activist is arrested while protesting a 300-ton megaload truck carrying mining equipment to a Canadian oil field through Nez Perce land on Wednesday, August 7, 2013, along Highway 12, outside of Lewiston, ID. The gathering drew a cross-section of activists concerned about tribal sovereignty and others about the environmental impact of both the trucks and the oil refining process thier loads are destined for. “To me, this is the only way we’re going to get them to listen to us,” said DelRae Kipp, one of 19 protesters arrested early Tuesday, shortly before the truck began moving.
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