Whitney Curtis

Moments

   
  
     
  
Dana Clark, 8, plays near the beach at Cuivre River State Park near Troy, Mo.
   
Bessie Mark (left) and Chelsie Francis rest on the floor as they wait in line to have their prom portraits taken with their dates during the Morgan High School Junior Prom in Morgan, Utah.
   
Stephanie Malloy and Tom Nowak, of Evergreen Park, Ill., relax in a truck bed and listen to the Cubs game on the radio before the start of the movie "The Benchwarmers" on a Friday night at the Cascade Drive-In in West Chicago, Ill.
     
  
Gail Burton, 18, feeds her daughter, Kassidy Villanueva, at her Kansas City, Kan., home after a day at school. Burton was one of 22 teenagers who participated in New Directions, a program that provided child care and transportation while the teen mothers were going to school.
  
Ralph Balsdon, of Kansas City, Mo., searches through debris at his brother-in-law's house shortly after a tornado ripped through the Carriage Hills neighborhood in Gladstone, Mo.
  
A doll serves as an example of a patient having her tonsils taken out as second-graders from Uintah Elementary learn about hospital life at Ogden Regional Medical Center in South Ogden, Utah. Second-graders from area elementary schools participated in the annual event, which was sponsored by the Weber County Medical Alliance.
     
  
As the sun rises over the mountains, a man watches the temple burn during Utah Burn, a regional Burning Man event located in the west desert of Utah. The theme for the 2005 regional burn was "Neverland," drawing Peter Pans, the Lost Boys, pirates and fairies to the desert for the three-day event.
   
Jonny Blunt, 7, plays with a toy rifle outside his house as Republican 6th Congressional District candidate Peter Roskam speaks to his brother Joel Blunt, 14, while campaigning door-to-door in a Carol Stream, Ill., neighborhood.
   
"I wish I could have all of these dresses and wear all of them just one time," says 8-year-old Miranda Santillan. Miranda plays with a mannequin as her mother, Mary Santillan, shops for a first Communion dress for Miranda at David's Bridal in Overland Park, Kan.
     
  
Scott Elementary School fifth-grader Paige Hochstatter paints a window depicting the book "Looking for Bobowicz" by Daniel Pinkwater at Nichols Library in Naperville, Ill. Fourth- and fifth-grade students from the school painted scenes depicting four different children's books.
   
Artist Ann Kelly looks around what is left of the Pass Christian, Miss., home she moved to four months before Hurricane Katrina struck. Now living in a trailer, she cleaned up, and even decorated, her site. Kelly lived in the western part of the small Mississippi Gulf Coast town, which was hit the hardest.
   
A woman wades through the littered floor of the House chamber at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., after lawmakers had thrown their paperwork into the air to celebrate the close of the session.