Vascular surgeons Kevin Geary, left, and Patrick Riggs, right, rest on each other's heads during a redo open super-renal aneurysm repair surgery that lasted over six hours at the Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. on Sept. 12, 2019. Although the team succeeded in the operation, Geary stated that this type of surgery has a 10% success rate.
Veteran Lou Gritter reaches out to make contact with a mustang during a Mission Mustang session at the Equicenter in Honeoye Falls, New York in Nov. 2018. By working together for several weeks, the program attempts to develop a bond between the two in order to help the mustangs find a new home after the program and help the veterans to find themselves emotionally.
Camp Swim Instructor Alison Goergen (cq) teaches the youngest girls how to dive during swim period in Echo Lake at Camp Laurel in Readfield, M.E. on July 31, 2018.
18th century British troops, played by historical reenactors, ambush a French garrison on patrol in the east woods along Lake Ontario during the "Winter Woods Battle" event near Fort Niagara in Youngstown, N.Y. on Feb. 16, 2019.
Ronald Fairman stands with a homemade sign outside the main entrance to the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Henrietta, N.Y. on Oct. 19, 2018. Fairman states that his son, Timothy Fairman, who died of causes related to a mental health issue on November 16, 2017, was not properly treated as an RIT faculty member had promised. He also claims that repeated attempts to contact administration of RIT to ask questions over the matter have since resulted in his email being blocked. Ronald Fairman stated," I hate being here, I really do, but if this helps one parent or kid". "When you lose your parents you lose a past. When you lose a kid, you lose a future".
Children play in the Rings Fountain in the Wharf District of Boston, MA on August 1, 2018. Temperatures reached over 90° in the city that day.
Deputy Bryan Shepard, left, and deputy technician Daniel Luffman mark out the scene of a fatal accident in Rochester, N.Y. on Dec. 15, 2018. A woman was killed instantly when her vehicle was struck attempting cross the highway when the road was not clear.