Jason Mooneyham wanted to be a professional baseball player for as long as he can remember. He finally got his chance with the Ogden Raptors as a 40th-round draft pick under the Los Angeles Dodgers. Through the season Mooneyham endured long bus rides, batting slumps and the joy of being on a professional ball player. For Mooneyham, family is thousands of miles away but accessible with a quick dial on his cell phone. Life on the road in baseball's lowest level is tedious, tiring and anything but glamorous.

The Wasatch Back Relay is an endurance race that spans 170 miles and lasts over 24 hours. One hundred teams ranging from 6 to 12 members compete in the race which started at the Hardware Ranch in Logan , Utah and ended in Park City , Utah. The race is run in 36 sections varying in length and difficulties. I followed a team called "The Misfits," who had only six runners. In 27 hours, each of the members ran an average of 28 miles.

Greyhounds swarm Cory Owens for some water as he walks into the outdoor recreation area. Owens waters the dogs nearly four times a day. His weekend mornings usually start around 7 a.m. to let them out. He then doesn't leave until after midnight. The dogs demand a lot of Owens' time. He changes their beds, gives them baths, lets them outside for several hours a day for exercise and waters them. 'They are considered to be family and it's the same as any person would do for their kids,' he said.

This Ohio University senior started college as Rebecca but will graduate as Jakob. During his junior year, Jakob decided to begin the transition he believes he was destined to make his whole life. It was time to stop physically being a woman and become a man.

Five hours of sleep is a blessing. Six is a dream come true. With homework keeping them awake until the wee hours of the morning and a school bus waiting to pick up kids at 6:30 every weekday, college students Chad and Tracy Lange have learned to live with little sleep, full schedules and their four children who are all younger than seven-years-old. .

When conflicts end in Southeast Asia, the war torn countries are left littered with landmines and unexploded bombs. No infrastructure is established to rid the countries of these devestating devices and civilians pay the price. In central Vietnam, almost once a week, someone is killed or injured by an unexploded ordance or a landmine. In Cambodia more than 2 million landmines were placed indiscriminately during nearly two decades of civil war. On the Thai/Burma border, ethnic Burmese refugees flood into Thailand. Hundreds of them are landmine amputees. The wars are long over, yet the killing of innocent civilians continues. As a photojournalist, I had the chance to witness the atrocities of war remnants and create a record of them. Without documentation, no on would know the crisis still rages through Southeast Asia. Photography is a great responsibility. .

I spent ten days in New York City documenting the often overlooked world of Medallion Taxicabs. On any given day, there are more than 40,000 eligible cab drivers trying to share fewer than 12,000 legal and available cabs. The cars spend 24 hours on the streets, seven days a week. The drivers, 96% of whom are first generation immigrants, work for at least 12 hours behind the wheel, six days a week. they are some of the hardest workers in the city and often the least respected.