MICHAEL APPLETON

QUICK PORTFOLIO

A man watches, with bucket in hand, as a row of houses burns in an affluent neighborhood of New Orleans.
   
Quintella Willams holds her nine-day-old baby girl, Akea, outside of the Superdome sports complex in New Orleans, LA while waiting to be evacuted from the city. Thousands of people continued to be left stranded days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
   
People collect food dropped by an Army helicopter outside the convention center in New Orleans.
     
  
Ann-Veronica Recasner, right, and her mother, Mildred Foley, 90, sit with other stranded New Orleans residents on an overpass in downtown New Orleans where they spent the last five days without shelter.
   
Haitians in Port Au Prince take to the streets in a fierce show of support for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who unexpectedly fled the country earlier in the day.
   
Residents of Cap Haitian take cover as rebel forces battle pro-Aristide holdouts.
     
  
The body of a young man who was executed lies on the roadside outside of Port Au Prince.
   
Residents of Gonaives hold their national flag during a patriotic street rally.
  
Shiite Muslims exit the Al Hussein Mosque as they gather in Karbala, Iraq for the festival of Arbaeen.
     
  
A crowd of Shiite men vie for position as they chant and worship.
   
U.S. Army scouts on patrol in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad.
   
Kurdish farmers drink tea on a mountainside overlooking Iraq in Eastern Turkey.
     
  
A blindfolded human skull at a mass grave in Hillah, Iraq. Most of the hundreds of bodies found at the site were found to be blindfolded and bound.
   
Local residence of Hillah look into one of the pits dug at the mass grave.
   
A woman holds the remains of what she believes to be her son.
     
  
Afghan men congregate at a tailor shop in Lwara.
   
Afghan soldiers wait for patrol at Camp Tillman, a U.S. Special Forces firebase two miles from the Afghan-Pakistan border in Afghanistan.
  
Inmates of Maricopa County (Pheonix) jail’s infamous chain gang detail work together as they landscape a local cemetery for deceased indigent persons.
     
  
Inmates of Maricopa County (Pheonix) jail’s infamous, chain gang detail, pray with a nun at a local cemetery for deceased indigent persons before a burial.
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
Members of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader squad wait for their signal to take the field before an NFL playoff game at Texas Stadium.
  
An eager New York Giants fan attempts to peer over giant roman numerals outside the University of Phoenix Stadium before the start of Super Bowl 42.
     
  
Giant's wide receiver David Tyree makes a spectacular catch late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl 42 against the Patriots, setting up his underdog team for a winning touchdown.
  
The Rockettes and their animal co-stars outside Radio City Music Hall.
   
Evangelist Billy Graham speaks to the masses during a "Crusade" in Queens.
     
  
Irene Clayburne, Grandmother of Timothy Stansbury, who was killed by an NYPD police officer, is surrounded by the media in her living room after it was announced that a grand jury investigating the shooting will not indict the officer.
  
A man reacts to the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
  
Collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 10:29 a.m.
     
  
Firefighters John Leimeister, left, and Sean MacPherson of Engine 292 pause to look up at the Towers of Light Tribute before continuing their search for human remains at Ground Zero.
   
NYPD officers assist a distraught man from the Brooklyn Bridge.
   
Rabbis gather in Crown Heights, Brooklyn during the International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries.
     
  
Stranded commuters sleep on the steps of a post office during the blackout of 2003.