Portfolio: 1987

The images below are from my photojournalist portfolio in 1987. Back then, we shot only black and white. The cameras only had manual focus. Some of these images I don't have the film negative anymore. Come to thinking about, we use to slave away in a darkroom to print the images too.
In Waterloo, Iowa, a boy walks up a snow-and-ice-covered river, making a pattern in the snow,
This man is relaxing while his wife cuts the grass,
A woman cries silently durning a Memoral Day service a cemetery in Iowa Falls, Iowa.
While documenting a "Day in the Life" story about a retiring family doctor, the doctor treated a grandpa who had cut his head on a satellite dish while mowing.
The water skier cries out in terror at a long jumping competition east of Waterloo, though not about the sign, but at height she's able to obtain coming off the ski ramp.
In Waterloo, Iowa, swans swim on the pond over an abandoned rock quarry on private property.
Every year, this man( on the right) has a family reunion and has everyone help threshing oats. It's a lesson to the younger generation how work was on a farm was done, the old way.
The students of Spencer High School TV class air a gaming show based on the popular Dating Show, which ran on popular American TV during the late 1960s.
On a sidewalk in east Waterloo, a boy on a skateboard is pulled by his dog.
A mother watches over her daughter on her's first day of school. It rained throughout the morning in Iowa Fall, Iowa.
This human pyramid team toppled over during practice for the 4th of July water skiing show in Iowa Falls as the speed boat could not keep up the cornering speed.
This family has opened a thrift store in downtown Waterloo.
High-school-aged boys jump off to beat the summertime heat from the walk bridge over the Iowa Falls River. The height is about 50 feet. The Iowa Falls city council has since prohibited jumping from the bridge.
The girls' basketball team upsets the number 4 ranked team in Iowa.
Friends for life, the boy on the left saved his friend who had an epileptic fit while in the kiddy pool.
Children at an elementary school in Spencer, Iowa, played a racing game run down, put on oversized clothes, and then race back.
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