Will Meunier moves a child's toy on the yard of the home at 1066 Old Dixie Hwy in Flagler County, where a vicious fire took the lives of two children on Dec. 16.

Pictures of the Year 1999

A young person once told me that I am lucky to be doing what I do. I agree, because the camera gives me license to have experiences that are worlds apart from one another.

In 1999, I covered community news of Volusia County, Florida, for The Orlando Sentinel, and saw such things as the demolishing of a historic church after a fire, a small-town Veterans' Day parade, and the gleeful innocence of the children of farmworkers, oblivious to the poverty in which they live. I'm grateful and happy to be a news photographer.

Teacher and medium at Cassadaga Spiritualist camp.	Harry Lane and Chris Brown, 12, watch an earthmover demolish the DeLeon Springs United Methodist Church.

Scene from a typical hot summer day in Florida. The digital image was shot on an NC2000e digital camera and 300 mm f4 lens, 1/8000 at f22.	Ray Daugherty in his World War II uniform at the DeLand Veterans' Day Parade on Nov. 11.

Mexican children enjoy themselves on a trampoline in the rural town of DeLeon Springs, Florida, on June 10, 1999. The children's parents work in the fern industry of Central Florida.

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