Images: The Week in Pictures

  Over 1100 kindergarten, 1st and 2nd-graders perform a surprise song and dance number for retiring principal Chuck Lamb at Chesak Elementary School in Lake in the Hills Tuesday. A whole-school photo had been scheduled and the performace was a surprise that the kids had been working on with their P.E. teachers for the past few weeks. Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com

  While shooting a baseball game in Lake Zurich, the sun was setting, back-lighting the plate. Every time a pitch was thrown a cloud of dust shot out of the catcher’s mitt. I liked the way the back light highlights the dust as the ball hits the catchers mitt and that’s why I cose it for the Perspective column. Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com

  A trio of sleeping baby birds wake to the sound of a camera shutter at Peck Farm Park in Geneva. I chose this photo for the perspective column. Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com

Scott Sanders/ssanders@dailyherald.comThe Main Street parade! What would summer be without the marching bands on Main Street, hot weather, flags, and enthusiastic crowds lining the street? Events like this are popular with photographers sporting all sorts of cameras, including cellphone cameras. This photo of the Willowbrook High School marching band in Lombard’s Lilac Parade was taken in the panorama mode with my iPhone 5 cellphone camera. When used like this, it bends reality a little, along with the street, but I think it is an interesting effect, so I chose it for the Perspective column.

  Holly Crowe, 20, of South Elgin, right and Julia Field, 18, of Batavia, hula hoop at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles Wednesday afternoon. Crowe has been hooping every day for the past two years. She recently returned from the Chillicothe Music Festival in Chillicothe, Il, where she performed. College students recently out for the summer, Crowe and Field were simply enjoying the day at LeRoy Oakes. Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com

  Alyse Lanagan, 11, of Wheaton, enjoys cotton candy during the Taste of Wheaton Saturday afternoon. Food and rides were the highlight of the fest. Paul Michna/pmichna@dailyherald.com

  Myles Patten-Muzones has an eye for pizza pie after having his face painted at Art in the Park at Lehmann Park in Lake Villa on Saturday. Myles was at the event with his mom Michele Van Patten-Muzones, who was showing art. George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com