Diann Yoder joins a game of softball outside of her kids two-room schoolhouse on Oct. 23 in Mays Lick, KY. The Yoder family, an Old Order Amish Family, is one of about 50 in Mays Lick in a community that has been growing since 2004. Old Order Amish typically reject most modern technology, like computers, tv’s, and iPhones. These decisions are led by elders and bishops at church, and later made into a group decision by all the men. Kids speak solely Pennsylvanian Dutch until they reach first grade when they begin learning English, but continue to primarily speak Pennsylvanian Dutch within their community, throughout their lives.
Greg Nowak, 78, is Montana's only Chess Master. A self-described "sociable Christian loner," Nowak spends most days playing chess alone at different coffee shops, teaching students, and studying previous games of Grandmasters. Although Nowak has no family left, chess itself feels like company and has given his life purpose and control.
John Rimel shovels spent grain, donated by Kettle House Brewing, to feed his cattle on his cattle ranch in the upper south hills of Missoula Montana on July 30, 2025.
Ellie Costello gets ready to load feed into her truck at the Farm and Feed store in Ronan, MT, on Aug. 31, 2024. Costello is a young, first-generation female farmer and is facing the growing challenges of entering the industry and affording land.
Artists and traveling singers come together around a campfire to play guitar during the last night at the Old Salt Festival on June 21.
Sha Jaman Khan (Popul), his captain, and guard, float through the mangroves, off a channel that diverts from the Pashur river in Bangladesh. The moonlight and the company of fireflies light up the night sky.
Astro turf is laid and flattened out by Sam and Diann Yoder in a skid steer, where an old worn swingset used to sit on Oct 22 in Mays Lick, KY. Sam, owner of Outdoor Haven Swingsets, spends his days crafting wooden creations— swingsets that resemble boats and traditional jungle gyms for children.
Scenes from the Missoula Stampede Rodeo at the Missoula Fairgrounds on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.
Fred Stewart, 80, drives around the orchard to turn on sprinklers for his apple trees on July 10, 2025. Stewart is the owner of Green Bench Orchard, a small farm on the outskirts of the Orchard Home Neighborhood. Recently he has had to subdivide his land to homes in order to keep running his farm.
Margo Cilker, Americana country singer out of Goldendale, Washington, performs at the Old Salt Festival in Helmville on June 20.
Brent and Stacy Mannix, grandparents to Newman Ophus, ride around on their property that hosted the Old Salt Festival in collaboration with the Old Salt Co-op to promote stewardship of the land.
Andrew Demaree ascends a bolted sport route in the Lolo National Forest on Oct. 3, 2024 in Montana.
Caiden Gray, broncs rider from Miles city, gets kicked by his bronc at the Missoula Stampede Rodeo at the Missoula Fairgrounds on Friday, Aug. 8.
Maria Pacheco, wife of Christopher Martinez Marvan, and her daughter speak to the press following her husband's hearing at the Russel Smith Federal Courthouse on July 10. Marvan was detained by ICE agents in Helena last week.
Kade McDonough drives on hole seven in the first day of the annual three-day Montana State AM at the Missoula Country Club, on June 26.