Michael Ciaglo
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A hot day in Colorado Springs

Aeiden Brown, 5, and Mickey Gomez, 4, play with a water fountain by Prospect Lake Sunday. Temperatures are expected to drop to the 60s after Tuesday with lows in the 40s on Thursday and Friday. Forecasters predict that even with the cooler temperatures this week, the city can still expect more 80-degree-days in the upcoming weeks, before fall weather takes hold.
It’s a boy!

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo announced Monday that their new baby gorilla, born four weeks ago, is a boy. The gorilla has yet to be named but has already proven its strength by hanging onto his mothers back and belly at an early age.
Wheelchair Lacrosse

Co-founder of Wheelchair Lacrosse USA Bill Lundstorm, 37, tosses the ball around before the second day of a lacrosse training camp for disabled athletes at El Pomar Youth Sports Park Sunday, September 2, 2012. Lundstorm, with founder Ryan Baker, founded the group in 2009 to give disabled athletes a fast paced, full contact sport option that broke away from the tradition wheelchair sports of basketball and tennis.

Paralympic alpine skier Jasmin Bambur, 33, reaches out for the ball as John Vcelka, 42, moves in to hit it away during the second day of the Wheelchair Lacrosse USA training camp at El Pomar Youth Sports Park Sunday, September 2, 2012. Founder of Wheelchair Lacrosse USA Ryan Baker said with other more popular sports for disabled athletes, such as basketball and tennis, they have to be patient for this full contact sport to catch on. "We just have to expose people to this sport and get sticks in their hands and prey that they are going to be as passionate about lacrosse as we are," Baker said.

Rocco Cimarusti, 33, takes a shot on goal during warmups on the second day of a two-day wheelchair lacrosse camp put on by Wheelchair Lacrosse USA at El Pomar Youth Sports Park Sunday, September 2, 2012.

Co-founder of Wheelchair Lacrosse USA Bill Lundstorm, 37, passes the ball behind his back to a teammate during a scrimmage on the second day of the Wheelchair Lacrosse USA training camp at El Pomar Youth Sports Park Sunday, September 2, 2012.
2012 USA Pro Challenge

Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team (USA) celebrates as he wins stage six of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge Saturday afternoon.

Riders push towards Boulder in the sixth stage of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge Saturday morning.

Fans ride their bikes up Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder to watch the finish of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge Saturday afternoon.

Riders in the fifth stage of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge pass by Balanced Rock at the entrance to the Garden of the Gods Friday afternoon. Tyler Farrar sprinted to win the stage that finished in downtown Colorado Springs.

Riders push towards Boulder in the sixth stage of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge Saturday morning.

A rider races to the finish line at the summit of Flagstaff Mountain Saturday afternoon during the sixth stage of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge.

United Healthcare Pro Cycling Team rider Rory Sutherland celebrates on the podium after winning the sixth stage of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge.
Graduation Inside Out
Sitting down on the floor of Matthew Knight Arena wearing an oversized robe and an unnecessarily pointy hat it was time for myself and my fellow classmates at the University of Oregon to graduate. As we listened to advice from alumni before us, we were assaulted by a barrage of photos coming from all the excited parents sitting in the stands. In an attempt not to feel left out of all the graduation fun I decided to sling a camera over my shoulder and shoot the day from the lines of the processions and sides of the stage.


