Tia Chapman

Daily Work

Alan Duperry helps his son, Quentin (5), get clean after playing in mud at a Mud Volleyball Tournament in Middletown, Connecticut. Over 100 teams from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island competed in the tournament.
   
At a Cosplay convention in Hartford, Connecticut, Ryan Gilmore dresses as "Voldo" from a video game called "Soul Calibur." In the game, Voldo goes blind and insane protecting his master's treasure.
  
Michael MacDonald (15) of Middlebury holds still as he is covered from his head to his toes in sand at Hammonasset State Park in Madison, CT on Wednesday, August 1, 2007.
     
  
Maria Exposito, right, hugs Lenore Raven outside the Alpha House, a drug recovery center. Raven's son is a resident of the house and escaped the fire by jumping out one of the second floor windows. Exposito is not a resident, but came here each day as part of her recovery program. She says that now she does not know where she will go because Alpha House was the only recovery house of its kind in North Miami Beach.
   
First Company Governor's Foot Guard members Gary Klesczewski, left, and Travis Board, right, gather for Governor M. Jodi Rell's inaugural parade through downtown Hartford Connecticut.
   
New Haven Hospital nurse Ashleigh Liddle helps turn patient Anthony Macri of Milford. As she does she promises him that as she moves him she will keep him covered. At left is nurse Christine Curello.
     
  
   
Evelyn Samacá-Giraldo (17), left, waits to parade into an annual mass in honor of the Dominican patron saint, Nuestra Senora de Altagracia at St. Mary's Cathedral in Miami.
   
Nate Bleszinski (11) does bicep curls in his basement work-out-area. Nate is trying to lose weight and gain muscle through exercise and nutrition. He will often do extra curls and sit ups even when he has already reached the required number.
     
  
Brothers from the Legionaries of Christ in Connecticut gather around a grill for an outdoor barbeque at Hammonassett State Park in Madison, Connecticut. Left to right are AllanWirfel, Alex Mijangos, and Peter Wimer.
  
Republican State Representative Carl Dickman holds his head during a marathon budget session at Connecticut'sCapitol that promised to drag on well into the night.
  
A woman on the back of a fashion magazine stares out of a trash bin in Paris.
     
  
A boy throws balloons in an inflated play area at the Eastern League All-Star FanFest at New Britain Stadium in Connecticut.
   
A passenger waits to board a downtown train at Mosholu Parkway station in the Bronx. Passengers are told to stay back from the yellow line.
  
Volunteers for the Polish Genealogical Society gather inside the garage of Jonathan Shea, left, to sort through documents that will help form a genealogical database of Polish lineage. When all the chairs in his garage were taken by volunteers, Shea sat on his motorcycle.
     
  
Telma Diaz, right, hugs her daughter Paloma Batista outside the store in Hartford, CT where Diaz's nephew, Enrique Miguel Perez Diaz, was shot the night before. Behind them are candles and stuffed animals for a make-shift memorial at the site.
  
Beth Hartke (standing) inadvertently startles fellow knitter Loraine Fulton as she comes by to check on Fulton's work during a knitting circle at Brainerd Library in Haddam, Connecticut.
  
Martin Luther King Elementary School, West Indian Foundation member Chelsea Goodison, center, laughs with her friends before the start of a West Indian Day Parade in Hartford, Connecticut.
     
  
Nick Demko, left, bends down to take a fish off of his line while the fish that Demko has already caught swim underwater at Stratton Brook State Park in Simsbury Connecticut. The park was one of six locations around the state that the Connecticut DEP stocked with fresh fish as part of Opening Day for fishing.