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      <image:caption>Members of Milwaukee's Latino community participate in a march for immigration rights in 2006. (Sam Lucero photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Andy Sprosty holds a photo of himself and wife Avis. (Sam Lucero photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The above three images are from protest rallies I attended in 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Door County’s town of Ephraim pictured in black and white, the canvas of Ansel Adams. (Sam Lucero photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Catholic sisters read copies of the Milwaukee Catholic Herald in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in 2002. (Sam Lucero photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Group shot outside of Victoria Falls National Park in Zimbabwe.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Superior Catholic Herald staff, correspondents, columnists their spouses and diocesan leaders gathered at the home of Bishop Raphael Fliss in 2000. The reception was to celebrate the Year of Jubilee 2000 with communicators.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An elderly woman sits in a pew at All Saints Catholic Church in Denmark, Wis. (Sam Lucero photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dominic, the epidemiologist.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dominic and Lorato Lucero were married in Gaborone, Botswana.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This photograph, taken at a kindergarten circus performance in 2006, was shot with a Nikon D1H digital camera. I used Topaz Photo AI to enlarge the file size, remove noise and sharpen.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is a cropped image of the original photo taken in 2006. Notice the graininess (noise) in the dark background.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is a cropped image of the photo edited in Topaz Photo AI.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lion trainer Emily L. holds a hoop through which her lions (classmates Jacob D., Cole G., Johnny H. and Jonathan S.) will jump during St. Joseph School's kindergarten circus.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Three elephants perform a routine with their trainer during the kindergarten circus.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Joey C., one of the kindergarten circus Mighty Men, lifts a barbell with one hand while fellow weight lifters Joseph R., left, George H. and Billy G. flex their muscles during St. Joseph School’s kindergarten circus.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A live Nativity scene in downtown Oconto Falls, Wis. (Sam Lucero photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A homemade Christmas ornament of my late friend Riley Beckstead, left, and a Christmas letter he sent a few years before his death.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Give drink to the thirsty,” one of the corporal works of mercy depicted in a stained glass window at Good Shepherd Church in Chilton.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is Chris from Indiana. He saw me trying to photograph this small rock formation in the foreground with Delicate Arch in the background and decided to be funny.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A photo taken in late afternoon at North Window.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This photo taken at North Window minutes before sunset.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pilgrims fill St. Peter's Square in anticipation of a Wednesday general audience. (Sam Lucero photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jill Biden’s airplane landed in Namibia before we did, which was probably a good thing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dominic stands outside of our tent-shaped cottage at Desert Quiver Camp.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A view from our outpost at Desert Quiver Camp.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>At left, enjoying the sunset over Windhoek atop the Hilton Hotel. At right, boarding our South African Airlines jet to Johannesburg.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A family of hippos swimming in a watering hole near the Nkambeni Safari Camp.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A welcome sign at Kruger National Park.</image:caption>
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