Greg Kahn

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Photography by Greg Kahn for the Naples Daily News, Independent Tribune and Freelance.

   
A family member mourns during the burial ceremony for Guerline Damas and her five children, Michzach, 9, Marven, 6, Maven, 5, Megan, 3, and Morgan, 19 months, at Palm Royale Cemetery & Mausoleum in Naples. The six family members were found killed more than two weeks ago. The husband, Mesac Damas, is charged with six counts of first degree murder.
   
Seven-year-old Elias Mendoza walks down Main Street in Immokalee carrying a sign along with hundreds of other residents during the Children's March on Main, a event to raise awareness about domestic violence and its effect on kids. The event, part of domestic violence awareness month, was open to the entire community, and began at the Immokalee Outreach Office with activities for kids and educational material for parents.
     
  
   
Lt. Jason Sellers battles a brush fire in the South end of Golden Gate in Naples. Officials said the fire was started by a campfire in the wooded area. No homes were threatened.
   
John Ingram is caked in mud after racing a friend through the monster truck course before a race a the Redneck Yacht Club on Nov. 14, 2009.
     
  
Sterling Foster, 14, a professional surfer from Naples, takes a tumble after riding a wave near the Naples Pier on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. Foster and other surfers were treated to what they said was a decent swell the day after Thanksgiving, and planned to surf until the waves were all gone.
   
Fighters battle in the martial art known as Shijou Ryu, a no-rules style of jiu-jitsu. The name translates to "the way of the street." Techniques taught in the class in Naples involve eye gouging, small joint manipulation and breaking the neck.
   
     
  
Third-graders on a field trip from First Baptist Academy in Naples walk past a Fernando Botero nude bronze sculpture titled, Smoking Woman, as it's set outside the front doors of the Naples Museum of Art on Wednesday. The museum is preparing for their first Botero exhibit, titled The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, opening Jan. 31 and running through the May 3rd. Botero, a Colombian painter and sculptor, is widely exhibited throughout Europe and South America. The exhibition is organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, VA.
   
Groundskeepers prepare for the arrival of Boston players before Red Sox and Twins first spring training game of the season at Hammond Stadium.
   
Tina Connor, right, pushes Melissa Cox down the narrow hallways at the Sunrise Community, a center that helps adults with disabilities achieve a level of independence. Connor, who has a learning disability, started teaching at Sunrise after she graduateed from the program seven years ago. She has one essential message. "I've got a disability like you. That means: Don't give up. Don't give up your dreams. Don't give up your future and do what you want to do in your life."
     
  
Dr. Melanio Villarosa checks the side of a filing cabinet at his small office in Immokalee where dozens of index cards, Post-it notes, and scraps of paper give him a quick list of symptoms and diagnosis. Dr. V uses it as his cheat sheet of common sicknesses so he can treat patients quicker. When Dr. V said he started Immokalee Pediatrics, because he was called by God to help the less fortunate, but now find himself overwhelmed with patients.
   
Charline Joseph, left, the mother of Fatera Dorestan, weeps in bed to mourn the loss of her son at his home in Naples while family friend Mary Joseph sits by on July 23, 2009. Fatera Dorestan, 52, died after he drove his 1995 Nissan pickup truck into a waterway near 10420 Gulfshore Drive on July 19, 2009. Dorestan was one of two pastors at the First Haitian Baptist Church in East Naples. Haitians from as far away as Canada came to the home of Dorestan to pray and comfort family. It is Haitian tradition for members of the community to visit the house of the deceased daily until the funeral.
   
Rick Piper, president of the Everglades Astronomical Society, searches the night sky for far off galaxies during the club's monthly gathering in the Fakahatchee Strand, a state preserve in Southwest Florida. Piper, 56, who built his own telescope, decided not to aid his viewing with computer technology, but instead finding galaxies on his own. "I enjoy the chase as much as I do finding the objects. I'm kind of a diehard," Piper said.
     
  
A walker navigates through a flock of black skimmers as she takes a stroll along Naples beach before sunset.
   
Danny Daughters of Chicago, who was celebrating his 21st birthday with friends, tries to steal the spotlight from go-go dancers at the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas.
   
Sinclair Knauff of Charlotte holds the curtain closed at the Kannapolis Performing Arts Center in Kannapolis, N.C. before her scene as the Box Girl during rehearsal for the Piedmont Dance Theatre's fourth annual production of the Nutcracker. This year's ballet will feature 98 performers ranging in ages from 3 to 50 years old.
     
  
Three-year-old Alyssa Burress is lifted by her great aunt Arlene Lindell as she lays a single white rose on her father, Spc. Richard Burress' coffin after his burial service at Palm Royale Cemetery in North Naples. Spc. Burress was killed in Al Jabour, Iraq, on Jan. 19, after a roadside bomb struck his vehicle.