Max Oden // Photojournalist

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  • Ricky Catrett loads a boat onto a trailer Tuesday afternoon Dec. 15, 2009 after retrieving items from his flooded home in Level Plains. Heavy rains covered roads with floodwaters, prompting several rescues and forced educators to close schools Tuesday in parts of south Alabama, with as much as 10 inches of rain falling in a few hours. (AP Photo/Dothan Eagle, Max Oden)
  • Habitat for Humanity volunteer Jonathan Browning, center, of Amherst, is seen through the window of a door being installed in one of two homes volunteers worked to construct Saturday during a Habitat for Humanity 'Blitz Build' in Altavista. (Photo by Max Oden/The News & Advance)
  • Relatives of Lawrence Maliek Giusto console each other during a vigil Monday evening in Lynchburg. Giusto was killed Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting on Shaffer Street. (Photo by by Max Oden / The News & Advance)
  • Madelyn Rebsamen, 6, competes in the Lynchburg Aquatics League meet at the Hill City Swim and Tennis Club Monday night. Despite being affected by Amniotic Band Syndrome, which caused her to be born without a full left arm, Madelyn competes in a variety of sports, including soccer with Central Virginia United.
  • Sweet Briar College graduates wait to have their official group photo taken by college staff before commencement exercises began Saturday morning, May 16th, 2015 outside of Amherst, Va. The school announced plans to close earlier this year, potentially making the class of 2015 the school's last. (Max Oden/The News & Advance)
  • A partial solar eclipse is seen setting behind the Blue Ridge Mountains from a vantage point on Candler\'s Mountain Thursday evening, Oct. 23, 2014 in Lynchburg, Va.
  • A man, who goes by the name Theophilus, dances to music at the Lock'n Music Festival in Nelson County, Va. (Photo by Max Oden/The News & Advance)
  • A firefighter from the Midland City Volunteer FIre Department looks on as he waits at the scene of a house fire for support from the Dothan Fire Department.
  • Liberty University students sing during Convocation Friday morning at the Vines Center. Grammy-nominated Christian artist Kari Jobe and her husband Cody Carnes led the gathered crowd in worship before a message from Christian author and speaker Beth Moore.
  • Students from Enterprise High School and residents from the surrounding neighborhood walk down a road near the school shortly after a deadly tornado touched down March 1, 2007.
  • A member of a U.S. Air Force honor guard watches as an American flag is folded during the ceremony for Lt. Robert Franklin Dees Saturday afternoon at Longstreet Historical Cemetery in Dale County, Ala.
  • A group of alligator hunters look at their catch after a night of hunting on Lake Eufuala August 22, 2010.
  • Runners participate in a party with colored powder following the conclusion of the Color Vibe 5K in Montgomery, Ala.
  • Members of the Foster family work together to milk one of their goats on their farm near Wicksburg, Ala.,Thursday, July 5, 2012. In a health-conscious world, people are often looking for alternatives and goat meat and goat products are getting more attention. Goat milk has generally been considered a good alternative to whole cow's milk for people who are lactose intolerant and has similar nutritional values as whole cow's milk. Goat cheese has fewer calories, fat and cholesterol than cow's cream cheese.
  • Chunks of molten metal fly as Chris Lynch uses a mallet and spike to shape the head of a steel dragon at his shop last month. Lynch forges his own tools from raw metal and is the owner and operator of Old Moneta Ironworks, a traditional blacksmith shop located in Moneta, Va.
  • Samuel Teal, 7, nuzzles up to his therapy horse, Sophia, before his therapeutic ride with LifeSavers Ranch. Samuel was born with a diaphragmatic hernia, which caused the other organs of his abdomen to develop in his chest cavity and prevented the proper development of his lungs. Samuel has struggled with a number of developmental delays and just started walking two years ago. He has been coming to LifeSavers for therapeutic riding since March.
  • Bill Miles sits with the fox he rescued in an enclosure in the back yard of his home in near Pinckard, Ala.
  • People dressed as zombies surrounded newlyweds John Andrews and Shelley Basinger, a WSET TV anchor, during their wedding photo shoot. People in the wedding party were unaware of the scheduled {quote}Zombie Walk{quote} when plans were made for group portraits downtown.
  • Members of an Army JROTC class perform a flag raising during a Veterans Day ceremony at Dothan, Ala. VFW Post 3073.
  • The city of San Marcos, Guatemala is seen from Volcan Tajumulco in this long exposure photograph.
  • A woman receives a haircut at a barber shop in downtown Ozark, Ala.
  • A woman stands near her overturned vehicle following a two-car accident on U.S. Highway 231 in Dothan.
  • Pfc. Jason Barfield, a United States Marine, embraces his mother, Kelli Barfield, outside her home in Ashford Wednesday morning, December 16, 2010. Pfc. Barfield surprised his mother, who thought he wouldn't be home for Christmas, with the visit. On October 24, 2011, Barfield died while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. On March 7, 2013, he was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in combat.
  • A volunteer firefighter is silhouetted by the sun as he sprays water on a brush fire near Columbia, Ala.
  • A JROTC color guard stands in front of an American flag during an appearance by Alabama Gov. Bob Riley at Bell Helicopter in Ozark, Ala.
  • Seized hunting dogs are seen in the back of a Dale County Sheriff's Office vehicle. The severely malnourished dogs were just a few of the nearly 20 dogs taken from a man in rural Dale County.
  • Webb, Ala. resident Robyn Scearce fishes from a concrete structure near the Columbia Reservoir on the Chattahoochee River January 21, 2011.
  • A volunteer firefighter sprays water on a brush fire in Houston County.
  • Emergency personnel work to remove a victim from a truck December 20, 2009 after the truck was struck by a train in Ashford. No one was seriously injured.
  • Workers use a crane to remove letters from the logo on the side of the former Sony plant in Dothan, Ala. February 10, 2011.
  • A lone fisherman is seen along the shore of Lake Atitlan in Panajachel, Guatemala.
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