EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Couples slow down the pace for more romantic dancing during Okeechobee High's Junior-Senior Prom, held in the banquet hall at the KOA campground.

A group of bicyclists stopped their ride to help out with a beached sperm whale on Palm Beach. With instructions from a biologist via cell phone, they roll the whale so that its blow hole faces away from the crashing surf and shifting sand.

The action, and sun, is hot at the remote control-operated car track.

Flamingos and Roseate spoonbills are sheltered in a bathroom at the Brevard County Zoo while the area is under a hurricane warning with the threat of Hurricane Floyd.

In advance of the Honda Classic golf tournament, a Honda is floated onto the golf course lake.

Long before her sixteenth birthday, Genelle Moreno, 2, learns to refuse to yield the driver's seat of the battery-powered truck to a group of boys she was playing with at Dreher Park.

Tony Gandolfo, John Ayoub, center, and John Hysong, all 13, spend much of their free summer time jumping on the trampoline, as seen from below, that sits in front of Ayoub's house.

Sieni Eberhardt, widow of Riviera Beach police officer Donald Eberhardt, Jr., is comforted while she and her son, Richard, 4, react to the gun salute after her husband's funeral service.

A wave of competitors enters the ocean for the swim portion of the Loggerhead Triathlon.

Bernard Cain tacks up screening to the wall of a building that is being prepared for stucco application. The blue paint is a bond to help the stucco adhere to the wall, and the screen helps prevent the wall from cracking once the stucco is applied.

Dancers warm-up on stage behind the curtain before the start of the Children's Ballet Theater's production of The Wizard of Oz.

Jockey Corey Nakatani, riding No. 12 Silic, sticks his tongue out at other riders as he crosses the finish line to win the Breeders' Cup Mile race at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla.

Underwater construction takes place near the Breakers reef where mooring buoys are being installed.

The early morning sun casts shadows on the tarp that Simon Musallam and Andre Mendez put up on a frame outside Family Produce on Dixie Highway, where they also sell flowers and bread.

Kristin Cagney, with her adopted stray pup Copper, opened the first craft seltzery in Charlotte, NC.

Capt. Ron Lauth and Fire Medic Troy Schurter, of West Palm Beach Fire Rescue Special Operations, rescue Pedro Grave from a tree after he had been shocked for thirty minutes when a branch he was cutting fell onto a live power line and became stuck there.

The Roger Dean Stadium tarp crew needed plenty of members to uncover the diamond after rain delayed the beginning of the Florida Marlins vs. St. Louis Cardinals exhibition game by more than an hour.