Photos: Kelly Presnell's end of year picks, 2023
A selection of images taken through 2023 by Arizona Daily Star staff photographer Kelly Presnell.
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Tucson Fire Department personnel mop up the remains of a fire in a homeless camp near 34th St. and 10th Ave., near an I-10 on-ramp, South Tucson, Ariz., January 12, 2023. The damage was confined to the camp and grass trees near by.
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Arizona forward Cate Reese (25) elbows her way into the lane against Washington in their Pac-12 game at McKale Center, Jan. 27, 2023.
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Arizona guard Pelle Larsson (3) swings from the rim after jamming home a basket against Oregon State durning the second half in their Pac 12 game at McKale Center, February 4, 2023.
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Bareback riders Cooper Cooke, left, Dylan Riggins, Clay Stone and Clay Jorgenson get in a little pre-rodeo hacky sack before the start of the afternoon session on the third day of pro competition at the Fiesta de los Vaqueros Tucson Rodeo, Tucson, Ariz., February 22, 2023.
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Arizona guard Kerr Kriisa (25) and the Wildcat assistant coaches react after not getting the out of bounds call against Princeton in the second half of their NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament game, Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, Calif., March 16, 2023.
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Garrett Lewis puts in a little sympathetic body English while watching Vicky Benzing dive her Stearman in the skies over Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for Thunder & Lightning Over Arizona airshow, Tucson, Ariz., March 24, 2023. Friday's show was a practice day, but was open for base personnel and a few select groups.
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Members of the bleacher crowd react to UCLA’s Maya Brady’s (7) two RBI homer landing in their midst in the third inning of their Pac 12 softball game against Arizona at Hillenbrand Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., April 14, 2023. The hit staked the Bruins to a 5-0 lead.
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Riders take a spin on the Sky Flyer at the Pima County Fair, Tucson, Ariz., April 22, 2023.
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Greenway pitcher Kaitlyn Terry (5) goes to the rosin bag between pitches in the second inning of the state 4A Softball championship game against Salpointe at Hillenbrand Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., May 16, 2023.
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Onnalynn Iturralde gets cell photos of a memorial of her older brother Troy, a member of the Tucson, Ariz., High School Class of 2023 who died in January of 2022, she set up among the hundreds of chairs in place for the graduating seniors before ceremonies, May 24, 2023. Onnalynn, a junior at the school, represented Troy on the night as just over 600 hundred Badgers were officially graduated.
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Kaiden Guerra comes face to face with Darth Vader at Summer Safari Nights at Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Ariz., June 10, 2023. Vader and several other Star Wars characters, and some others from the Marvel Comics universe cosplayers, were among the roving entertainers meeting and posing with the patrons.
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Patience Lossou gets drenched while cooling off on a hot afternoon at the Brandi Fenton Splash Park, Tucson, Ariz., June 22, 2023. Temperatures are forecast to get well above 100 degrees over the weekend and into next week.
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Arizona Arsenal goalkeeper Brandon Keniston (44) smothers a dribble into his box by FC Tucson’s Gyorgy Kamaras (9) in the first half of their USL League 2 match at Kino Sports Complex, Tucson, Ariz., July 15, 2023.
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A lightning bolt hits northwest of Gates Pass, one of the last several scattered rain cells at the tail-end of a monsoon storm that skirted south of Tucson, Ariz., July 19, 2023. The largest part of the cell slipped south of town, dropping rain and sporadic lightning in Tucson Estates and west along Ago Highway.
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Marana’s Cadence Beck, center, gets mobbed by her teammates after driving home the team’s 16th score to run-rule Washington in the six inning and force a second game in the West Region Junior softball tournament finals, Tucson, Ariz., July 26, 2023. Marana topped their run through the loser’s bracket with a 4-0 win in the weather delayed night cap to advance to the Little League World Series.
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Ros Daniel Janty busks with his trumpet in the evening light on the corner of Congress Street and Sixth Avenue outside the Ronstadt Transit Center, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2023.
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Anthony Johnson and his sister Charlotte meet Emy Higdon in her persona of Mermaid Odette, part of the aquatic attractions around, and in, the pool for Arizona ArtFest at Hotel McCoy, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2023. The pool area was also the venue for the night’s band.
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A rainbow arcs over the eastern sky behind a stand of saguaros along north Campbell Avenue, part of the scattered monsoon storm that rumbled over Tucson, Ariz., August 8, 2023.
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Arizona defensive back Martell Irby (13) jumps for joy at Senior Defensive Assistant/Secondary Duane Akina after the Wildcats made a goal line stand on Northern Arizona in the third quarter of their football game at Arizona Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 2, 2023.
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Scott Riggs practices his rope dart techniques near the pond in Reid Park, Tucson, Ariz., October 11, 2023. Rope dart, or meteor hammer, is a martial art using a weight or weapon, twirled or spun at the end of long rope. Riggs, a martial arts instructor and owner of Five Element Flow studio, was working out on his own into the dark with an LED light on his rope after a student canceled an earlier lesson.
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Marana's Adrian Griffin (4) goes flying in collision with Mountain Ridge's Madison Green (3) stopping her run-after-catch in the second quarter of their second round game of state playoffs at Marana High School, Marana, Ariz., October 26, 2023. The Tigers lost for the first time this season, 21-20, the second straight upset by Mountain Ridge in the playoffs.
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Teammates offer support to Pusch Ridge's Sam Avery (62) as the players gather shortly after the Lions fell to Blue Ridge 20-17 on a last minute field goal in their State 3A playoff game at Pusch Ridge Christian Academy, Tucson, Ariz., November 3, 2023.
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Arizona forward Isis Beh (33) gets handled from all sides trying to haul down an offensive rebound against Northern Arizona McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz., November 10, 2023.
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Northern Arizona guard Leia Beattie (15) tries to plead her case to one of the game officials after picking up a foul late in the Lumberjacks’ game at McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz., November 10, 2023.
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Two rappellers near the end of the ride in the last of the day’s light during the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona’s eighth Over The Edge at 5151 E. Broadway, Tucson, Ariz., November 11, 2023. This year was the first time the event had dozens of duos making the drop after sunset.
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Arizona linebacker Kamuela Ka'aihue (18) hits Utah quarterback Bryson Barnes (16), putting a stop to his scramble up the middle in a soggy third quarter of their Pac 12 game at Arizona Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., November 18, 2023.
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Canyon del Oro's head coach Dustin Peace gets mobbed by his Dorados as he holds up the championship trophy they just won against Yuma Catholic for the 4A State Football Championship, Tempe, Ariz., December 1, 2023.
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