David Eulitt

year in review: 2010

San Diego Chargers tight end Randy McMichael (81) stood in the water misting machine on the sidelines during the game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, CA on December 12, 2010. The temperature at kickoff was 86 degrees, a record high for San Diego for the day.
  
The Kansas City Chiefs enter the field at Qualcomn Stadium prior to their game against the San Diego Chargers on December 12, 2010. The photo was made with a Lomography Spinner 360 film camera.
   
Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA
     
  
Above the watchful eye of his mother, Nathan Parece, 9, of Kansas City, Mo., scampered up a leafless tree in Loose Park on Tuesday afternoon to retrieve a model rocket caught up in the branches. Parece and his family were shooting off model rockets when Nathan spotted this abandoned rocket left by another hobbyist. After several minutes of untangling the parachute, Parece netted his prize. When asked why all the effort, Nathan explained "Well, I really, really, really, really, really like climbing trees."
  
Chet Duvenci, a tattoo artist at Mercy Seat Tattoo, right, worked with Garnet Baker on creating the full-back tattoo of a colorful peacock over the course of a year .
   
Jim Phelan, a steeplejack from Pacifica, California, worked atop a 40-foot flagpole on the Commerce Bank building at 1000 Walnut Street in downtown Kansas City, Mo. on Wednesday morning, repairing the pulley assembly on the aluminum pole to make the flagpole functional again. Phelan, 58, a third-generation steeplejack with J.C. Phelan Co., has been working in dizzying heights for 40 years. His 10-year-old son, Jells, has shown interest in continuing the family business. Phelan's company is one of two companies in the United States that travel to perform steeplejacking, rigging and flagpole repairs.
     
  
   
Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Mo.
   
Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Mo.
     
  
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe (82) was flipped on a tackle in the first half, pursued by Buffalo Bills cornerback Drayton Florence (29), left, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. on October 31, 2010. The Chiefs won 13-10 in overtime.
  
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel (7) ended the first half with a pass against the Arizona Cardinals at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. on November 21, 2010.
  
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Andy Studebaker (96) sacked Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) with help from teammate Tamba Hail, lower tight, in the first quarter at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. on October 31, 2010.
     
  
Kansas City Chiefs running back Jackie Battle, top, scored on a fourth quarter touchdown leap, over his teammate, Chiefs guard Ryan Lilja, bottom, against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. on October 24, 2010. The Chiefs won 42-20.
   
Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Terrance Knighton, 96, took time in the second quarter two-minute warning time out to check out the Kansas City Chiefs cheerleaders performing in the end zone on Sunday, October 24, 2010 at Arrowhead Stadium.
  
Kansas City Chiefs running backs Thomas Jones, left, and Jamaal Charles, right, share the running back duties for the team nearly equally, leading to the NFL's top rushing tandem through Week 7. Jones, the workhorse veteran, and Charles, the younger sprinter, form a duo that together is difficult for opponents to stop.
     
  
Fans had the chance to sign their autographs to the finish line prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Price Chopper 400 on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
  
Ron Nalec, car chief for Jimmy Johnson's Lowe's NASCAR team, loosened bolts on the rear windshield during a garage stop at practice for the Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway on Friday, October 1, 2010.
   
A 14-year-old Kei Kamara sits in a wooden boat filled with about 40 Africans who are trying desperately to escape the war-torn city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. He, along with a handful of family members, is heading toward Lungi, a coastal town that houses Sierra Leone’s only airport.Make it there, Kamara knows, and they could fly to nearby Gambia, a much safer country.Kamara worries the boat — designed to carry 20 people — will sink. As the water splashes around at his feet during the hour-long ordeal, his fears only intensify.It’s just another type of terror for Kamara, who played soccer as a child amidst 12-year-old soldiers carrying guns and dead bodies strewn about the road. To this day, it’s still enough to give Kamara, now 25 and a forward for the Kansas City Wizards, nightmares."People like us," Kamara says of native Sierra Leoneans, "are scared for life. Sometimes I feel like I’m still living there. Every time that I wake up, I’m like 'I’m alive'… and I just pray."--Terez Paylor, Kansas City Star reporter
     
  
Kansas City golf legend Tom Watson has been honored with the Byron Nelson Prize, an honor he will receive in Dallas. The award -- presented annually since Nelson's death in 2006 by the Salesmanship Club of Dallas -- is given to a prominent golfer in recognition of his or her outstanding community service. Watson was photographed at Kansas City Country Club.
   
The NHRA funny car driven by Jim Head of Columbus, OH exploded during his semifinal run at the NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas. Head walked away uninjured from the explosion.
  
With artillery smoke hanging in the air from a 21-gun salute by his company at Fort Leavenworth, the 500th Military Police Detachment, Army Sgt. Travis Smith saluted during the playing of "Taps," during Monday's Memorial Day ceremony at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery.
     
  
Betsy Runyan Medina, a breast cancer survivor, is the inspiration behind the "Betsy" all-natural soap and body products made by her employer, Indigo Wild, in Kansas City.
  
  
After Dolores Kitchin was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, she started a website called mypinkplanner.com so friends could organize help for breast cancer patients. She received the news from her biopsy in 2004, the day before her son, Johnnie, turned 3. He is now 9 years old.
     
  
Larry Scott, 59, of Kansas City, is on medications from St. Luke's Hospital for his heart attacks but because he doesn't have insurance, his delays in seeking medical care has led his heart function being severly decreased. St. Luke's found in a new study that patients with little or no insurance are more likely to postpone going to the emergency room when they have heart attack symptoms.
   
Raquel Sears and her family are looking for answers about how her son, Alberto Lima Betancourt, died on his 21st birthday during a outing to Stix and Stones, a Sugar Creek bar, where Betancourt celebrated his birthday with friends with a plan of having 21 drinks. He died on April 19 with a blood alcohol level of .459, according to Sugar Creek police. Sears held a photograph of Betancourt up to the glass front door of her Independence home.
  
Miguel "Mambo" DeLeon provided the percussion rythym inside the Beaumont Club, performing with Carte Blanc during the 13th annual Jazz Outreach to benefit Swope Health Services. The benefit is Kansas City's largest indoor jazz concert.
     
  
   
Jayce Thomas, a junior from Blue Springs High School, soared 21' 4" in his jump during a windy afternoon at the Rusty Hodge Invitational track meet at Blue Springs South High School.
   
Oversized strips of foam bacon and sunny-side-up eggs were shuttled into a trailer from the entrance of the Sprint Center Tuesday morning by (from left to right) Becky McGee, Craig Moore II, Josh Houk and Ben McCarthy, who were working for GMR Marketing in an ad campaign for Wendy's new breakfast menu. The faux food has been accompanied by coupons and coffee for curious pedestrians.
     
  
A safety-cabled worker was part of the iron work sculpture of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, currently under construction at 17th & Broadway in Kansas City, Mo. The center is scheduled for a Fall 2011 opening.
  
Twisting the normal size and scale perceptions, a bird lands on one of the trio of oversized wooden sculpture ants on display at Powell Gardens in Kingsville, Mo. The 240-lb. ants, with bodies crafted from bent willow with cedar eyes, is the work of artist Dave Rogers. The gigantic bugs will be on display until Oct. 3, 2010. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star
   
Erika McCullough, a sophomore at Northeast High School at 415 Van Burnt, waited for the afternoon bus to leave after the school day finished. The Kansas City, Mo. School District has targeted Northeast as a school for closure but the district may remove some targeted closures off the list.
     
  
Customers at the Apple Store on the Country Club Plaza waited in line to purchase Apple's new iPad tablet, which arrived in stores for the first time. Shadows of the customers were cast from the morning sun onto a product display for the mobile device.
  
Billboard, Interstate 29, Missouri.
   
Dina Kirschenbaum, left, squared off in fencing practice with Mark Thomas, right, on Wednesday afternoon at Westwood Park in Kansas City, Mo. The duo, both third-year students in the MFA (masters of fine arts) program at UMKC, were polishing their moves for a stage combat class with sabres.
     
  
Diane Lines of Kansas City, Mo. tried to keep her hair out of her face during the National Anthem at the Kansas City Royals home opener against the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium. Lines was at her first ever Royals home opener.
  
Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander took his warmup pitches in the Tigers bullpen just prior to the start of the Kansas City Royals home opener against the Tigers at Kauffman Stadium.
   
Mike Pyle of Independence, Mo. had some fun on his day off from school on Martin Luther King Day by conquering a melting snow mountain piled up at the Plaza Colonnade parking garage at the intersection of Brookside and Volker Boulevards. Pyle was with family friends Tiffany and Annie Hughes (not pictured) in climbing the snow summit.
     
  
Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
   
Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
   
Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
     
  
Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
   
Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
   
Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
     
  
Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
   
Actors Garret Dillahunt, left, and Angela Bettis, center, pose for a portrait in their wardrobe during a break in filming "Arkansas Traveler," a movie trailer by Kansas City-based film production company Wide Awake Films, shot in Weston, Mo. The trailer was filmed to attract investors for completion of the full movie.
  
Actress Angela Bettis huddled with a blanket on her horse during a chilly March afternoon during a break in filming of "Arkansas Traveler," a movie trailer by Kansas City-based film production company Wide Awake Films, shot in Weston, Mo. The trailer was filmed to attract investors for completion of the full movie.
     
  
The filming of "Arkansas Traveler," a movie trailer by Kansas City-based film production company Wide Awake Films, was shot on location in Weston, Mo. at the picturesque home of producer Ed Leydecker. The trailer was filmed to attract investors for completion of the full movie.
  
Actor T.J. Bruegger held a noose during a scene in the filming of "Arkansas Traveler," a movie trailer by Kansas City-based film production company Wide Awake Films, shot in Weston, Mo. The trailer was filmed to attract investors for completion of the full movie.
  
Actor Raleigh Dean Craighead prepared for his scene in which he was about to be beated and hung from a noose during the filming of "Arkansas Traveler," a movie trailer by Kansas City-based film production company Wide Awake Films, shot in Weston, Mo. The trailer was filmed to attract investors for completion of the full movie.
     
  
Robbie Maupin, an actor and Civil War re-enactor, lies fatally wounded during the filming of "Arkansas Traveler," a movie trailer by Kansas City-based film production company Wide Awake Films, shot in Weston, Mo. The trailer was filmed to attract investors for completion of the full movie.
  
Actress Angela Bettis posed for a portrait in her wardrobe during a break in filming "Arkansas Traveler," a movie trailer by Kansas City-based film production company Wide Awake Films, shot in Weston, Mo. The trailer was filmed to attract investors for completion of the full movie.
  
Austin, Texas
     
  
Austin, TX.
   
Central Texas barn.
   
     
  
Central Texas political campaign sign.
   
Austin, Texas sidewalk diptych.
   
Abandonded hotel sculpture, central Texas.
     
  
Fresh Meat, La Grange, Texas.
   
San Diego, CA
   
Carousel, Missouri State Fair, Sedalia.
     
  
Kansas City, Mo
   
Diana Mini 35mm, Kansas City, MO
   
Diana Mini 35mm, Kansas City, MO
     
  
St. Louis, MO
   
St. Louis, MO
   
St. Louis, MO
     
  
St. Louis, MO
   
San Diego, CA