Portraits: Portraits

America Gomez, 2, watches a pro-immigrant march while wrapped in a U.S. flag at Viking Park in Denver, Colo. on May 1, 2006. As many as 50,000 people gathered at the Capitol for the rally. Gomez is an American citizen whose parents are immigrants. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Portrait of Horacio Gomez Jr., 4, of Denver, holding a pigeon owned by his father Horacio Gomez and his uncle Fernando Gomez in a birdhouse in the backyard of Fernando's home in Denver, Colorado. They own 47 pigeons. Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz wants the city to reduce the number of pigeons residents may own. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Portrait of Michael Toone, 25, who will be deploying to Iraq, at Fort Carson, Colo., on Wednesday, March 2, 2005. Toone, who is adopted, recently met his birth mother Kathy Stewart for the first time. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
     
  
Portrait of Denver Nuggets star forward Carmelo Anthony. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Portrait of Reverend Craig MacColl at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Centennial, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Jonathan Swain, 21, was the first pediatric AIDS patient in Colorado and has survived with AIDS for 21 years after receiving a tainted blood transfusion when he was just days old. Today he has a healthy new wife and a child on the way.
     
  
Portrait of Elizabeth Nayadley. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Portrait of Cuban-American Bill Vidal, manager of the Department of Public Works, in front of the sculpture "East 2 West Souce Point" by Larry Kirkland at the Wellington Webb Office Building in Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Surrounded by darkness, actor John Ritter laughs at a friend's joke at the Laurel Theatre in Ventura. Ritter is preparing for the play "J for J."
     
  
A Kurdish child plays in an abandoned home in Southeast Turkey. He lives in a village that was badly damaged during fighting between ethnic Kurds and the Turkish military. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Portrait of Corey Adams at Lewis Palmer High School in Monument, Colo., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007. Adams has signed to play college football at Kansas State because of his abilities as a long snapper. (Photo by Chris Schneider)
   
Steve Weideman, dressed as Santa Claus, warms up in the hot tub after doing the Polar Plunge on January 1st at the Boulder Reservoir in Boulder, Colorado. Proceeds go to help fund Alzheimer education, counseling, and research.
     
  
Portrait of climber Jim Davidson at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. Davidson and his climbing partner Mike Price were climbing Mt. Rainier when they both fell into a crevasse. Davidson survived while Mike perished from the fall.
   
Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee during a campaign stop at Des Moines College
   
Ranoah Johnson, 8, waits for President-Elect Barack Obama to speak to a crowd estimated at 30,000 at the War Memorial Plaza during a Whistle Stop Tour in Baltimore, MD, on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2008, just days before the inauguration.