Colin Mulvany's Favorite Photos 2024

In my 36-years as a Spokesman-Review photojournalist, I've strived to capture the moments and people that matter in our community. It has been honor and a privilege to share this moments with you. Come take a journey through my many favorite photos from this past year. Colin.

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Fri., Dec. 20, 2024

Employees Miranda Jackson and Jarod King pull Touchmark resident Gaynel Gering, 86, along a Slip 'N Slide, Thursday, August 29, 2024, at the assisted living facility on the South Hill. Touchmark seniors turned giddy over Slip 'n Slide water fun along with other activities such as axe throwing and corn hole at the end of summer Camp Touchmark.

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Alice Hook, 10, on left, and her sister Jane, 7, flag down cars on Bernard Street and 22nd Avenue as they try to attract business for their lemonade stand, Friday August 23, 2024.

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One the last day of classes, Sacajawea Middle School eighth graders react to hearing they won the annual Rubber Thunderbird spirit competition between the grade level, Friday, June 14, 2024.

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This holiday display at 648 S Authur features Santa’s reindeer grazing in the front yard.

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At the TNT Fireworks stand in Nine Mile Falls, Shane Carter, his wife Amber and daughter Sonja, 8, pick out their Fourth of July fireworks with help from Lakeside High School head coach Devin Bauer, who operates the stand as a fund raiser for the high school football team.

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University of Idaho athletes from the men’s and women’s basketball teams conducted a free kid’s basketball clinic, which included this dribbling exercise, Friday June 28, 2024, on the GESA Credit Union High School Elite Center Court in Riverfront Park.

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A bullfrog rests within the colorful refections of Mirror Pond in Manito Park, Monday, June 10, 2024. Bullfrogs are ambush predators and will eat almost any animal they can capture and swallow, including worms, insects, crayfish, fishes, other frogs, snakes, small turtles, small mammals and even birds. They are the largest North American frog, weighing up to 1 pound and measuring up to 8 inches.

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is viewable in the early evening sky west of Spokane, Monday. Oct. 14, 2024. The comet appeared in night skies over the Northern Hemisphere earlier in October and came within 44 million miles of Earth over the past weekend. It will still be visible for the next couple of weeks.

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A dragonfly takes a break from hunting flies, midges and mosquitoes, Thursday, August 1, 2024, at Manito Park’s Mirror Pond.

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A palette of fall colors blankets the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood, Wed. Oct. 16, 2024. With cooler temperatures at night, the leaves are rapidly turning color.

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A great horned owl keeps a watchful eye from a tree limb in a farm field in Spangle, Wash., Friday, May 10, 2024. Found throughout North America and much of South America the great horned owl hunts a variety of prey, including mice, rabbits, hawks, snakes, and even skunks.

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Judy Fleming walks her daughter’s dog Lucy along a fall-colored Manito Boulevard, Wed. Nov. 6, 2024, on Spokane’s South Hill.

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Charged particles spewed from the sun during a solar storm, make a colorful light display in the sky above grain silos in Spangle, Wash., Friday, May 10, 2024.

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On a golden pond, a wood duck sheds water from its wings, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, at Cannon Hill pond. The yellow water is a reflection of the turning leaves from a maple tree on the shore.

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A squirrel munches on a seed in the grass of Corbin Park, Tuesday July 2, 2024.

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Snowflakes gather on a twig, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, on Spokane’s South Hill. The weather forecast shows snow turning to rain for the rest of the week.

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A super blue moon emerges from behind the clocktower in Riverfront Park, Sunday, Aug 18, 2024. The rare super blue moon is simultaneously a full moon, blue moon, and a super moon.

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Left to right, Janek Chojnowski, 18, (Poland), Semi Mungualinipa, 19, (Congo) and Yakobo Mleha (Congo) and Aidan Kierans, 19, (India) work out at Spokane Boxing Gym, Oct. 31, 2024 The boxing Gym hosts many young immigrant fighters from all over the world.

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College Basketball Preview cover, left to right Ryan Nembhard (0), Ben Gregg (33), Graham Ike, (13) and Nolan Hickman (11).

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Gonzaga forward Graham IKE.

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Justin Janke, was a once hot-shot North Central distance state champ. He never quite lived up to his potential at WSU, partially thanks to a foot injury that got misdiagnosed and cost him his last two years. He started up running on his own, training with the Gonzaga guys on Pat Tyson's invitation. He ran a 4:04 mile indoors this winter, which is the fastest he's run since high school. He doesn't really have any big ambitions, just wants to finish on his own terms.

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Spokane Indians third baseman Kyle Karros.

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Gonzaga women's basketball coach Lisa Fortier has been battling cancer since a February diagnosis.

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Rachel Burns, who has Down syndrome, has recently earned her black belt at Cascao Jiu Jitsu.

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Del Marsengill, known as "Patch," sits outside his apartment on Feb. 14, 2024, He is not one of the tenants being evicted from the building, but he believes his time there is limited. The landlord is trying to evict most of tenants at the apartments above the Red Lion for not paying rent.

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Ridgeline wide receiver Brayden Allen, on left and quarterback Landon Garner for fall preps preview special section.

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University senior wrestler is a three-time state champion at 105-pounds and is looking to become just the fifth girl in state history to win four titles, which she could accomplish at Mat Classic in February at the Tacoma Dome.

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St. George's cross country runners Josie McLaughlin, on left, and Regan Thomas.

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Sprinter Taylor Swanson, 31, who has cerebral palsy, competed and won in the National Paralympics in March, and she just came in second in the World Championship Paralympics. Swanson is now preparing to try out for the official Paralympics team in July. She runs the 100m and 200m. Despite struggling with mobility issues related to her cerebral palsy since 2014, she is able to compete with the help of a functional electrical stimulation device that improves her mobility.

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Bonner County Sheriff's deputy Garrett Johnson and dive team member, finishes a search pattern training exercise in lake Pend Oreille, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. The lake’s depth—over 1000 feet in places— brings diver safety challenges on whether a missing body can be found and recovered.

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Theresa Elisoff examines the damage to her vehicles parked in front of her house after a dead tree in Grant Park fell across the 1700 block of 9th Avenue around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec 18, 2024. “I was on the phone with my husband and was telling him that I worried about trees falling in the wind storm, “said Elisoff. “About 15 seconds after I said that, I heard a loud crash.” The ponderosa pine struck and damaged her new Ford Ranger pickup truck. The tree also took down power lines, which Avista worked to restore power in the afternoon.

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During Wednesday’s wind storm, Alyshia Tibbets braces against the wind as she crosses Riverside Avenue at Post Street.

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Captain Charles Hartman with the Spokane County Fire District 3 Station 36 arrives to put out a backhoe fire at the town of Spangle’s wastewater treatment plant, Friday, August 30, 2024. Logan Billington, who works for Spangle’s Public Works department, was operating the backhoe when it caught fire. “It was probably a leaky fuel line,” said Billington. The fire was contained to the backhoe, which was consumed by the fire.

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At the Spokane County Democratic election night watch party, a table awaits cleanup, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, at the Riverside Place events venue.

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A fentanyl addict takes a hit after heating a ground up pill on foil in the area of 2nd Avenue and Division Street.March 20, 2024.

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A firefighting aircraft drops a load of water on a wildfire near Palisades Park in west Spokane Friday July 26, 2024.

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Karen Bart hat, face and glasses gets covered in snow as she snowblows her neighbors sidewalks along the South 2900 block of Lamonte Street, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024.

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A firefighting aircraft drops fire retardant on a wildfire southwest to Tyler, Wash., Friday July 26, 2024.

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Spokane Fire Department firefighters cut a vent in the side of the roofline of the U. S. Bank branch in the Lincoln Heights shopping center along 29th Avenue, Monday, April 29, 2024. The fire started in the attic area of the building, said Spokane Fire Department spokesman Justin DeRuyter.

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On Veterans Day, the Alent family, left to right, Josh (behind), Ellie, 12, Brenda, Macie, 9, Cari, and James, 5, tend the the gravestone of veteran John Gerald Alent who served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and passed away in January. A steady stream of people visited the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, to honor veterans that have served their country.

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Laine Crawford uses a fire extinguisher to put out hot spots near her house at Assembly and West Maxs Lane, Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

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Lewis and Clark High School students celebrate winning the Rubber Chicken spirit competition during the annual Rubber Chicken high school basketball game with Ferris, Thursday., Dec. 19, 2024, at the Spokane Veterans Arena.

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Lewis and Clark High School students celebrate winning the Rubber Chicken spirit competition during the annual Rubber Chicken high school basketball game with Ferris, Thursday., Dec. 19, 2024, at the Spokane Veterans Arena.

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As the clock runs out, Yale guard Bez Mbeng (2) celebrates the Bulldogs 78-76 win over the Auburn Tigers during the second half of a NCAA Division 1 first round college basketball game, Friday, March 22, 2024, in the Spokane Veterans Arena.

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Mead baseball player Emerson Fleck for cover of spring sports preview section.

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Gleason Garske, age 10, uses the two-handed method the bowl during a practice session, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 at Lilac Lanes and Casino. He's the son of former Mead and EWU football player Griffin Garske. Gleason, who is named after former NFL football player Steve Gleason, has bowled a 300, and when he was just 6, caught the attention of NBA star and noted bowler Chris Paul.

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After dunking the ball Gonzaga guard Khalif Battle (99) celebrates during the second half of a NCAA college basketball game with Arizona State, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

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Spike, the Zags mascot warms up the crowd during player introductions during the first half of a NCAA college basketball game, Wed., Nov. 20, 2024, at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

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Gonzaga guard Joe Few (15) gets dunked on by Baylor guard VJ Edgecombe (7) late in the second half of a NCAA college basketball game, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in the Spokane Veterans Arena.

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The Rogers Pirates circle up before taking the field for their high school football game with East Valley, Thursday Oct. 24, 2024, at One Spokane Stadium.

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East Valley running back Dean Deakins (25) is swarmed by the Rogers defense during the first half of a high school football game, Thursday Oct. 24, 2024, at One Spokane Stadium.

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