https://jwphotojournal.com/home daily 1.0 2020-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580861145931-H57LO7R16E8UUGM1ZQ02/FEAT_01.jpg Portfolio Jacai Foster (center) catches mist as rainbows illuminate a crowd of kids dancing in the spray of the fire hose after the 70th annual Independence Day Parade in the High Point Terrace neighborhood on July 4, 2019 in Memphis, TN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580946848114-FKZ5ULHO1ZK400CRDIR0/Jim+Weber+Image039.JPG Portfolio Memphis Police Officer M. Brent crosses the scene of a shootout between Memphis Police Officer Charles Wren and a shotgun-wielding man at the corner of Getwell and Barron Monday afternoon. Wren was rushed to the Med after being shot in the leg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580942808890-1K1AU803ABGFLL15F3YF/MatthiasHeiderich-081.jpg Portfolio P&H Cafe co-owner Robert Fortner, who has been getting tattoos since he was a teenager, says that when he started having his face tattooed it was like a new experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580949141501-MN9E34911JRXH7BQNVT9/illo00.JPG Portfolio Retro Sexy: Great tailoring is back, as in this eye-catching cashmere jacket by Lela Rose paired with side ruched skirt and leopard print clutch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580867249082-7DZOHQMUFHDCOERW9WO8/MatthiasHeiderich-SpektrumZwei023.jpg Portfolio The Mustangs’ Sydney Somogyi (5) battles for control of a header against Phoebe Harpole (13) from ECS during Houston High School's soccer game against ECS at Houston Middle School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581025355249-LZLNS6QVKG2VDF108XGV/GENW_9013318174_VIGIL_01.jpg Portfolio As Blake Webber wipes away her tears, Jaleta Clark, mother of 20-year-old Brandon Webber who was shot Wednesday by U.S. Marshals in Frayser, remembers her son during a vigil on Durham Ave. in Frayser Friday evening. Hundreds of neighborhood residents gathered with Webber's family to denounce the shooting and the violence that ensued afterward. https://jwphotojournal.com/rain daily 0.75 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581020394240-5IBL3EQ00ATRZGNN0U7O/flooding1.JPG rain Crystal Goedereis and Chad Banks row through the Riverbend Apartments to check on their home as flood waters swamp the complex. With the Mississippi at flood stage, West Memphis was declared a disaster area by the state as rains continue to pound the Mid-South causing low lying areas to flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581020394240-5IBL3EQ00ATRZGNN0U7O/flooding1.JPG rain Crystal Goedereis and Chad Banks row through the Riverbend Apartments to check on their home as flood waters swamp the complex. With the Mississippi at flood stage, West Memphis was declared a disaster area by the state as rains continue to pound the Mid-South causing low lying areas to flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021343168-UK65X33TLKH4N2SDBFPD/jwriver+%282%29.jpg rain Chris Vaughn watches the sun set over a swollen Mississippi river from a half swamped bench at Jefferson Davis Park. After weeks of rising to historic levels, the Mississippi River reached a crest just short of 48 feet at the Memphis gauge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581020842461-RHU1JR4FR7GFT6CEB0FY/jwdamage2.jpg rain Knee deep in flood water, Crittenden County Sheriff Deputy Darryn Richardson wades through his apartment to retrieve his hunting rifles Wednesday afternoon at the Riverbend Apartment complex where most of the ground-floor units were flooded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580866393738-OTEEJHWBT0UXTJEFLST1/flooding7.JPG rain Jumping asian carp feed off the muck filled floodwater off President's Island Tuesday morning. Floodwater has forced many of the island's regular inhabitants like deer and wild turkey to seek higher ground or perish in the raising water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580866400512-V0WMN5XNE9RSYRESDOPL/flooding10.JPG rain Mike Lippert threatens to dunk a skittish Lindsey Bass while the pair mess around in the flood water at Tom Lee Park and the sun sets over the swelling Mississippi river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1580866404387-HX0N1E5NG9N6T35E32JO/flooding4.JPG rain Michael Bahr joins a group of some 30 Memphis area volunteers as they bag sand Wednesday afternoon at the Pyramid for use on the levies around the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581020984604-0NK8EJBH19KCVFF469XO/jwdamage7.jpg rain West Memphis firefighter Ernest Seard, left, helps unload displaced families at a temporary shelter at the McCarley Family Life Center. after West Memphis was declared a disaster area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021083077-O2BQ23GCX8T7CA9MLP65/jwriver1+%282%29.jpg rain Jack Berryhill pulls clothes and belongings out of his submerged mobile home at the Country View Mobile Home Park on Old Millington Rd. after floodwater water backed up the Wolfe and Loosahatchie Rivers threatening Memphis and the National Weather Service upped it's crest forecast for the Mississippi to 48 feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021233605-JHSJGM8J8YD7BWRN3O0Q/jwwater4.jpg rain Isha Tynes (10) left, Terrence Brown (11), and Isis Tynes (10) pull debris out of the storm grates on Scottwood St. in afutile effort to drain off some of the flood water threatening his West Memphis neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021433879-1B4XHGCF4DYH8JMK0WJ1/jwflud4.jpg rain Whitney Jones cleans out cages at the temporary pet shelter set up by the ASPCA on Shelby Oaks Drive for animals displaced by the flooding Wednesday afternoon. The ASPCA housed as many as 200 animals during the crest of the flooding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021469925-1IMB03RVDEAOQQAPT7CL/jwflud.jpg rain Arthur and Penny Burton take their dogs for a potty break wading through the pond that has become of their front yard. The Burtons have watched for the last week as flood waters have creeped up a measuring post in the yard of their Frayser home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021551614-KOSKEKVCCR78N070GKSJ/jwflud3.jpg rain Memphis Police Department officers direct traffic around a closed stretch of Highway 51 near Watkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021623160-41RL4TS01A2EMEOZO6GO/jwriver2+%283%29.jpg rain William Byrd Jr. (left) gets a hand from his father William Byrd Sr., left, moving everything they can transport from his trailer at the Country View Mobile Home Park on Old Millington Rd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021695138-TR0ILUMMS5W9E3HZ8H2X/jwflood.jpg rain Isabella Gordon (13), left, and her mother Robin Gordon get a hand from neighbor Jeremiah Wright Thursday afternoon as they search through flood waters near their West Memphis home for koi that escaped from their goldfish pond when the back yard flooded. https://jwphotojournal.com/shelby daily 0.75 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581013756989-POJL8SFJTFDGIQRETELL/jw0kayak.jpg Heart of the Park Kayakers with Memphis Whitewater play boatball at Patriot Lake, a regular Tuesday evening outing for the paddling club. The park conservancy plans to continue work on phase one of it's master plan which includes enlarging Patriot Lake from 54 to 150 acres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581013756989-POJL8SFJTFDGIQRETELL/jw0kayak.jpg Heart of the Park Kayakers with Memphis Whitewater play boatball at Patriot Lake, a regular Tuesday evening outing for the paddling club. The park conservancy plans to continue work on phase one of it's master plan which includes enlarging Patriot Lake from 54 to 150 acres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581013858272-6OU0YUDJEG6WEN9QZXI0/FTSG_9013318174_SUUNFLOWER.jpg Heart of the Park Allison Carr, 18, jokes with her friends while walking through the sunflowers at the Shelby Farms Agricenter. Despite the oppressive heat, couples, families, photographers, and bees turned out en masse to enjoy the festive summer color provided by this year's sunflower crop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581013814349-54YVZKRU2SPXVQRTK2M4/buffalo+lightning.jpg Heart of the Park The Shelby Farms bison herd placidly mills about as a storm blows into the park from the west. The herd has grown by leaps in the past few years to around 60 due to donations and a renewed focus by park officials on the health of the herd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581013912386-L5PXUI7ZGAVW5WW9TQDM/jwcotton1.jpg Heart of the Park Bobby Haygood with Dow Agrosciences empties bags of cotton into piles of snowy down as he and a team of researchers weigh the production of numbered plots at the Agricenter. The Agricenter manages about a quarter of Shelby Farms' 4,500 acres including some 700 acres of cultivated and experimental crop land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014682904-QEFJNVYDCRMY078KF8LJ/jwmudluv7.jpg Heart of the Park Runners line up to be hosed off after the LUVMUD 5k fun race at Shelby Farms. Some 900 runners, most of which arrived in costume, turned out for the fund raising run to benefit Habitat for Hope, Shelby Farms, which plays host to an estimated one million visitors a year, is the countries largest urban park at 4,500 acres, over 5 times the size of Central Park in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581013966865-GJWFPE12YKM8FF9EL3SO/leaf.jpg Heart of the Park Sweetgum and Maple leaves sandwiched against an autumn sky are scarce in the Burch National Area along the Wolf River. As part of the first phase of Shelby Farms' master plan, the park conservancy plans to plant one million trees hoping that the introduction of more native tree species will increase diversity and help combat the pervasive privet thickets and kudzu that plague parts of the park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014047567-5QD39H859JK1QBMCTAXK/Shelby002.JPG Heart of the Park A barn owl recovers at the Mid-South Raptor Center located on the grounds of the Agricenter. A staff of mostly volunteers cares for and rehabilitates species of owls, hawks, eagles, and their less glamorous buzzard cousins at the 20 cage facility with the goal of releasing healthy birds back into the wild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581015128121-1WHPAD3AFO22D91DVHYK/jwfair1.jpg Heart of the Park In a spinning whirlwind of light, rides reflect in the pond at the Agricenter with the Delta Fair and Music Festival drawing record crowds this year. Shelby Farms, which plays host to an estimate one million visitors a year, is the county's largest urban park at 4,500 acres, over 5 times the size of Central Park in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014137592-EY3QE47MJ59DD6VPH7IP/1118_malo_ns_lights.jpg Heart of the Park Shelby Farms Ranger Brigitta Yanakopulos untangles herself while repairing the lights on one of the park's display pieces for Starry Nights. Starry Nights is the largest annual fundraiser for the Park and a holiday tradition for over 100,000 visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014255473-5ZM70H7EB18LQ93KF1YO/jwcoldkayak.jpg Heart of the Park Dallas Drews and her son Jacob Dallosta start to slide precariously sideways with a sharp push from Kennon Lavergne, right, Monday morning while snow kayaking at Shelby Farms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014294986-8JHS86TQOIC6I5X19REK/jwoverall.jpg Heart of the Park The sun sets over Beaver Lake and Patriot Lake, a pair of Shelby Farms' larger lakes. Shelby farms has over 20 bodies of water, but years of under-funding at the park has led to a degrading of the system of sloughs that connected many of the lakes. The smaller ponds have suffered from lower water levels as a result. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014367259-2ZPD3C4GWTNTATB2UFYE/Shelby022.JPG Heart of the Park A blue dragonfly rests on a lotus pod at one of Shelby Farm's smaller lakes. Park administration is trying to discover new ways to combine many of the pockets of forest that serve as home to the wildlife population. As it is, the isolated ecosystems north of Walnut grove are unable to connect with more stable forest along the Wolf River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014404336-WOSQYJ5ZJZZA4L0RSJRL/jwfish2.jpg Heart of the Park Matt Young pulls his son's daily take out of Catch'em Lake to add another catfish to the line during the annual Junior Fishing Rodeo. Matt's son, Reed Young, hopes to win enough fishing competitions to earn a fishing scholarship to college in a few years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014854858-E6W3EL9UTH9U21WVBBIY/feature04.JPG Heart of the Park Fireworks light the sky at Shelby Farms at the annual Star Spangled Celebration as an estimated 63,000 people gather to watch the show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014479970-G49RZISJGJK47GZPSULF/jwdog.jpg Heart of the Park Dogs get a quick spritz after running amok at the Dog Park. One of the most popular locations in the park, Shelby Farms installed a washing station and fountain at the 150 acre dog park this summer to serve four legged visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014912219-F8ZWICNAZQ6NUKX2CBXH/jwcyprus2.jpg Heart of the Park A bald cypress pokes out of Patriot lake, a common resting place for passing birds. With a planned expansion of Patriot Lake will come new habitat - a new swamp area along the southern portion of the lake - as well as new amenities - a new beach area and marina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014228375-GY2CNZUKL9QVNHOT3TYG/jwhorses2.jpg Heart of the Park Viewing the park from horseback is a unique experience. The usually skittish wildlife at Shelby Farms are strangely unafraid of riders allowing visitors on horseback to often get within a half dozen yards before bolting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014651996-ITFKWB7AG4GATDIS3N1N/jwflag.jpg Heart of the Park Jerrod Love with the Shelby County Firefighters keeps the enormous Patriot Flag from touching the ground after a ceremony to mark the flying of The Patriot Flag over Patriot Lake in Shelby Farms. Patriot Lake has always been the focal point for the park, but it's importance may be growing as phase one of the park's master plan kicks in and the lake is enlarged to three times it's present size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014545773-O44AMAKAUHOBX082HPIW/gothic.jpg Heart of the Park Joseph Broy, 11, (left) and his baby brother Owen pose for their own American Gothic portrait Sunday afternoon at the Shelby Farms Agricenter's Corn Maze. Memphians flocked to maze this weekend since it will be closing down after Halloween. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581014442285-LTE479E0ZQW4ELZJHLC7/jwsilhouette.jpg Heart of the Park Silhouetted against the clear summer sky, Max Kapajev watches as Kayakers with Memphis Whitewater play boatball at Patriot Lake. Patriot Lake has always been the focal point for the park, but it's importance may be growing as phase one of the park's master plan kicks in and the lake is enlarged to three times it's present size. https://jwphotojournal.com/riot daily 0.75 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021804619-LVGCYERRSP2SQQUZ44AO/BREAKING_01.jpg riot Shelby County Sheriffs Deputies brace against the crowd under an onslaught of stones as protesters riot following the officer involved shooting death of Brandon Webber in Memphis, TN. Dozens of angry protesters clashed with police throwing stones and tree limbs until police forces broke the mob up with tear gas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581021804619-LVGCYERRSP2SQQUZ44AO/BREAKING_01.jpg riot Shelby County Sheriffs Deputies brace against the crowd under an onslaught of stones as protesters riot following the officer involved shooting death of Brandon Webber in Memphis, TN. Dozens of angry protesters clashed with police throwing stones and tree limbs until police forces broke the mob up with tear gas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581024883902-A9AGU7S5UD0RX42TLTAF/BREAKING_02.jpg riot Sonny Webber (right), father of Brandon Webber who was shot and killed by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening, joins a standoff as protesters take to the streets of Frayser, TN in anger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581024923198-9FDD4KGC5VVWKBY47L26/BREAKING_03.jpg riot Frayser residents taunt the police as protesters take to the streets in anger against the shooting of Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening. Dozens of angry protesters clashed with police in Memphis, TN throwing stones and tree limbs until police forces broke the mob up with tear gas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581024991170-M5GQJ7FO1XZ69XU1DEAD/BREAKING_05.jpg riot Police retreat under a cloud of tear gas in Memphis, TN as protesters disperse from the scene of a standoff. Frayser residents took to the streets in anger against the shooting of Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581025011426-E018BSRIFTUT4QNCASPH/BREAKING_06.jpg riot Memphis police secure the scene of an officer involved shooting on Durham as protesters take to the streets of Frayser in anger against the shooting of 20-year-old Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581025062705-80VKZH4GNQURD8ZYNGRL/BREAKING_07.jpg riot Memphis police maintain a perimeter around the crime scene after protesters took to the streets of Frayser, TN in anger against the shooting of Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581025101421-GSBMBPDUE4HM09IQBQNZ/BREAKING_08.jpg riot A Shelby County Sheriffs Deputy dressed out in riot gear keeps an eye on the street as things start to quiet down after protesters rioted following the officer involved shooting death of Brandon Webber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581025355249-LZLNS6QVKG2VDF108XGV/GENW_9013318174_VIGIL_01.jpg riot As Blake Webber wipes away her tears, Jaleta Clark, mother of 20-year-old Brandon Webber who was shot Wednesday by U.S. Marshals in Frayser, remembers her son during a vigil on Durham Ave. in Frayser Friday evening. Hundreds of neighborhood residents gathered with Webber's family to denounce the shooting and the violence that ensued afterward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581025491774-60PL3S53BFH8N3URSI3S/GENW_9013318174_VIGIL_04.jpg riot A family member of 20-year-old Brandon Webber who was shot Wednesday June 12, 2019 by U.S. Marshals in Frayser, carries a photo of Webber during a vigil on Durham Ave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e39fd39a7489b0a77eb7414/1581025444667-968CH7QC0XG9S1KI2JKC/GENW_9013318174_VIGIL_02.jpg riot Hundreds of North Memphis residents gather on Durham Ave. for a vigil Friday evening to remember 20-year-old Brandon Webber who was shot Wednesday by U.S. Marshals in Frayser. 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