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Images: The Week in Pictures

  Marin Frank, a physicist from Fermi Lab, presents a Light and Color program at the Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich Monday. Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
  It isn’t very often that I find myself up and out before the sunrise, but recently I had an early morning assignment at the Glen Ellyn train station. As the sun was rising, I noticed the commuters lined up and waiting for an approaching train and I thought it made for a nice silhouette. Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
  A single snowflake was photographed with three extension tubes and a 60mm macro lens. I took a smooth piece of black cardboard and caught the flake as it fell. The exposure was 800 ISO, F8, with a shutter speed of 1/40th of a second. Because of the extension tubes, the depth of field is very narrow, resulting in the blurring at the top and bottom of the photo. What surprised me most, was not the texture of the snowflake, but the texture of the cardboard. John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
  A man and his dog brave Tuesday’s frigid temperatures to go for a jog through the Fabyan Forest Preserve in Geneva. With winds gusting at over 25 mph, the “feels like” temperature was -5 degrees in the early afternoon. Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
  At one point there were ten eagles within a 100-yard stretch of the Fox River in South Elgin Tuesday. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
  Emma Lloyd, right, and Sophia Cepeda, of Deerfield, practice tricks as they play on trampolines at Xtreme Trampolines in Buffalo Grove Sunday. The entertainment center offers an active alternative for kids in the suburbs. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  A bald eagle skims the water of the Fox River in South Elgin searching for some lunch Tuesday afternoon. Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
  Kevin Dean, 9, of Round Lake Beach, tries to blow a dime into a cup during Science Club - Awesome and Astonishing, Thursday at the Round Lake Area Public Library. Children attempted an assortment of odd and crazy experiments. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Sparks fly as Chicago firefighter Angelo Tsokolas cuts through a wall as first responders from the Illinois Terrorism Task Force urban search and rescue team train at Corrosion Monitoring Services (CMS) in St. Charles Thursday. The St. Charles company who routinely train their own rescue personnel on rescue from confined space, opens their doors and training facility to the Illinois Terrorism Task Force at least once a year. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
  Lily Gremo, 8, of North Aurora, screams as she careens down the sledding hill at Johnson’s Mound Forest Preserve in Elburn Friday. She was there with a group of other home-schooled kids and their parents. Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
  Reed Timmer, a meteorologist and extreme storm chaser who appears on the Discovery Channel, gives a presentation to students at Bartlett High School Friday afternoon. JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
  Mackenna Schuette, 9, of St. Charles, takes her turn with Bailey in an exercise at Bull Run Equestrian Center’s fourth annual Hunter-Jumper Bootcamp in Elburn Saturday. Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
  Joey Barnes, 3, of Batavia, gets to take a ride on the back of Boulder the African sulcata tortoise during a presentation by Jim Galeno of Dave DiNaso’s Traveling World of Reptiles at the Batavia Public Library Saturday. Boulder is 30 years old and can live to 160 years old. Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
  Alyssa Riemenschneider, of West Dundee samples one of the 50 types of chili on her way to tasting them all during the Elgin Knights of Columbus Council 654 15th annual Chili for Charity Cookoff and Dinner at St. Thomas Moore in Elgin Saturday. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
  15-month-old Anahita Safavi, of Island Lake, checks out a large stuffed dog at the Klassy K9 Confections booth at the 2013 Community Expo & Craft Show at Wauconda High School. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
  Emely Rudsinski, 5, gets a feel for the cello before the Elgin Symphony Orchestra family concert Sunday at the Hemmens Auditorium in Elgin. She was with her Algonquin family at the Instrument Petting Zoo, an area reserved for concert goers to get a hands-on experience with the symphony orchestra instruments. John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
  Designer Maddy Gustafson helps the shy Phoebe Welsh walk down the runway during the first student-run charity fashion show for Hope’s In Style, Sunday at the Garland’s Center for the Performing Arts in Barrington. The fashion show raised funds for a Guatemalan family living near a garbage dump in Guatemala City. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Starlight, a Golden Retriever, climbs a ladder for Robin Bengtson of Robin’s Dog Stars, who performed at the Round Lake Area Public Library. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
  Robin Bengtson of Robin’s Dog Stars, left, and five volunteers from the audience watch Cedar the Border Collie jump through seven hoops during a performance at the Round Lake Area Public Library. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
  Three-year-old Coral Locke gets a good look at Cedar, a Border Collie, while sitting on her mom Laura’s lap, during a performance of Robin’s Dog Stars at the Round Lake Area Public Library. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
  Elizabeth Bengtson holds up hoops for Cedar the Border Collie to jump through as Robin’s Dog Stars entertain kids at the Round Lake Area Public Library. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
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