sylwia kapuscinski

Singles

Model Erica Henley of Detroit, 32, sports a Parasol fantasy hair fashion created by Kevin Carter, a stylist at Salon Jacqueline in Southfield, as she waits for her fake eyelashes to dry during Hair Wars at Troy Marriott in Troy, Michigan. Carter has been designing fantasy hairstyles for nine years. "I am creating hair styles that are over the top. These hair styles are beyond avant-garde," said Carter. Detroit is known as The Hair Capital Of The World.
  
Orepa Daniels, sitting with her sons, Kevin, 8, left, and Kenneth III, 9, reacts after a 21-gun salute at the funeral for her husband, Detroit Police Officer Kenneth Daniels Jr., 28, at Mt. Hope Memorial Gardens in Livonia, Michigan. Daniels, 28, was shot and killed in southwest Detroit while working off-duty as a security guard at the Sting topless bar to be able to buy a new condominium for his family.
  
Sheik Basaam Kaleel, 41, baptizes Osama Omar of Baghdad, 11, left, on the first day of the annual Golden Day of Baptism in Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq. Mandeans are a small pre-Christian sect who view the John the Baptist as their savior. The religion combines some aspects of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Gnosticism. There are an estimated 100,000 Mandeans worldwide, mainly in Iraq and Iran. Baptism is the most important rite. The central rite of the Mandean cult is immersion in water, which is regarded as a symbol of life. The greater the number of ablutions performed the better.
     
  
Don Simonsen rides on a float from Rock Creek RV Resort in the 24th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Naples, Florida. Thousands of parade-goers and floats not only celebrated the Irish, but also remembered the heroes and victims of Sep. 11.
   
Retired Marine Capt. John May tells Joshua Brodowsky to listen to the drill instructors at Parris Island, South Carolina. Brodowsky is a student of New Beginnings school in Naples, Florida, an alternative program for kids who are at risk of dropping out, of running into trouble with the law and of getting lost in a larger system. Once a year the school takes a trip to a Marine training camp at Parris Island to learn the rigors, routines and values of the Marine Corps.
   
Angelo DeVito helps Ervin Steiner, both 86, get ready in the morning at their home in Fort Myers, Florida. “We all pitch in,” DeVito says. The two men live in the only adult family care home in Lee or Collier counties in Florida that accepts the state compensation rate for adults who need foster homes to live in.
     
  
Detective Ralph Cefarello, right, works for New York City Police Department’s special unit investigating the Russian mafia. The woman sitting on his right is also a NYPD detective who occasionally works as his partner.
   
Universoul Circus performers Jose Pinillo, 26, from right, Carlos Meza, 21, and Luis Urueta, 27, practice a balancing act on top of a flatbed hauler in Detroit.
  
Elmer Prentice plays horseshoes at the Karl J. Drews Community Center in San Carlos Park, Florida. Prentice and his friends have been meeting there for the past four years to play horseshoes several times a week.