Dan Holtmeyer | Photojournalist

Boys run across the sacred Yamuna River in northern India, about 80 miles upstream from the capital, New Delhi. Boys like these two often take a break from farming to look for coins tossed in from the bridge above. Once the river hits New Delhi, its mostly clear water turns black and poisonous with the sewage and industrial waste of 16 million people. 

A member of Sangre Azteca, a Latino community dance group in Lincoln, Nebraska, dances in front of the Nebraska Union on UNL's campus in September of 2012 in Fiesta on the Green, a heritage event sponsored by the Mexican American Students Association. 

Employees of Normans Bridal in Springfield, Missouri, carry dozens of wedding dresses to a trailer for an outdoor sale the next day in October 2013.

Hindu brides are unsmiling shortly before they wed their husbands in a mass marriage ceremony in a northern Indian village in May 2012. A local charity organizes the wedding for families that otherwise couldn't afford the elaborate ceremony, which swarms with local media and family members. 

Tommy Huynh, 3, is unconcerned with religious solemnity during Sunday service in August 2013 at the Dinh Quang Buddhist Temple in Springfield, Missouri. The group of Vietnamese immigrants and their families seems immune to disruption, hardly breaking their chants for latecomers, energetic children or a wandering photographer.  

A young man trails birthday balloons while walking through St. Louis's Union Station in May 2015.

Isaac Ogle (right) and his wife, Jennifer, explore a bluff shelter along a spring-fed creek Sunday in the Devil’s Eyebrow Natural Area in northeast Benton County in Arkansas. Jennifer Ogle is a land management specialist with the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, one of several groups that manage the area and are expanding it under a northwest Arkansas plan to preserve and grow open spaces.

Marchers celebrate Pride in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 27, 2015, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples across the country can't be denied the right to marry. “No longer may this liberty be denied,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority decision.

From left, Round Mountain volunteer firefighter Jeremy Selvey, Goshen volunteer J.D. Hatten and Round Mountain volunteer Mike Brown practice setting a ladder properly for a two-story structure during a joint training between the departments June 26, 2014, southeast of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Benton and Washington counties are checkered with more than 40 rural fire departments comprising about 800 volunteers.

Men and boys sift through garbage and trinkets thrown by New Delhi residents into India's Yamuna River in May 2012, looking for coins or anything they can sell. Though the river is revered as a Hindu goddess, the pollution inflicted by the city leave the shores encrusted with refuse and the water an opaque, toxic black. 

Bullfighters try to distract a bull as it continues to chase rider L.J. Jenkins, on the ground at far right, after tossing him off during a September 2013 bull riding event in Missouri State University's JQH Arena. 

A member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's men's gymnastics team performs on the rings in January 2011. 

Two lobbyists in the Nebraska Capitol Rotunda discuss a bill in the state legislature that would re-start the state's review of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline on the last day of the 2012 spring session. Ken Winston, a lawyer with the Nebraska Sierra Club, which opposes the pipeline, walks past. 

Hundreds of protesters march through downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, on Oct. 15, 2011, as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protested economic inequality, money in politics and other issues. The movement fizzled out, but income inequality remains a major issue in present-day politics.

A girl named Talia gives a photographer a look in Ritter Springs Park, a forested area north of Springfield, Missouri, in June 2013. Hundreds of kids took advantage of the public schools' summer programs in parks like this. (Note: I leave off minors' last names for this website.)

Plaques concealing the cremated remains of dozens of veterans in Fayetteville National Cemetery stand as a stark tally of the cost of war on Memorial Day in 2015. The Arkansas cemetery's first occupants were the dead from several local Civil War battles. 

Young skaters show off their tricks at Walker Park in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February 2017.