JONATHAN KIRSHNER PHOTOGRAPHY

Singles: Moment

Abbie and Ashley Loving, ages 6 and 7, don't seem to mind the funny face flashed their way by Ellanah Gentry, 2, during the Sunburst Beauty Pagaent at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
   
The Sawmill Pickers have been playing in James Burnley's living room most Thursday nights for years. Burnley, left, started hosting the sessions after his wife died in 1990. "It's one night a week that I can really enjoy," Burnley said. "It just passes the time."
   
     
  
The day after several tornadoes killed two people and injured 26, Christina Mills, 7 and her brother Christopher Mills, 5, watch while their parents help clean up a neighbors home near Bonnieville, Ky.
   
Terrelle Jackson, 9, waves a flag during the singing of worship songs at the Mt. Zion Apostolic Church on Easter Sunday.
   
U.S. Senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for President of the United States at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2006.
     
  
Coal miners Richard Baize, left, and Ben Williams, right, "wrassle" with Shirley McLemore as they leave the Paradise #9 mine in Muhlenburg County, Ky. "It never offends me if they say I'm one of the guys," Shirley said.
   
Kyle Graves, 7, Justin Emery, 11, and Jesse Graves, 11, goof around with wet chalk in the Graves brother's backyard in Girard. "We got bored and saw the chalk," Jesse Graves said.
  
     
  
Mary Anne Connelly, right, mourns during the funeral of her sister, Police Officer Claire Connelly, in Riverside, Calif. Officer Connelly was the first female officer in Riverside killed while on duty.
   
A group of Jehovah's Witnesses take a service elevator down to the locker rooms to change after participating in a baptismal ceremony at the "Walk With God" convention.
   
John Washington sings "The Road to Kappaland," a ritual inspirational hymn, with other Kappa Alpha Psi brothers as they dressed before competing in a stepshow.
     
  
Helen and Carroll Knoles of Springfield, ages 88 and 89, kiss on the ferris wheel at the Illinois State Fair as the Twilight Parade meanders through the fairgrounds. The Knoles began their courtship in 1932 when Helen spotted Carroll while she was on the ferris wheel with her boyfriend of the time. They married in 1937 after Carroll served in the Navy. "We wanted to do it for old times sake," said Carroll Knoles.
  
Abraham Lincoln actor Fritz Klein, attempts to get a smile out of Mikah Mack, 16, of Fort Wayne, Ind., during a brief visit to a mall to promote a new exhibit at The Lincoln Museum.