A look at Gazette photojournalists’ best photos wrapping up February 2025

Jen Rowray records a tik tok as Snowball the llama looks on on her farm near Newhall, Iowa on Monday, February 17, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

The sun rises over Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 with a temperature hovering around -1 degree. Negative temperatures are slowly fading from Eastern Iowa and will give way to 40’s and 50’s next week. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Kate Edwards plants herb seeds with the help, of her three-year-old daughter Ada Marie and 11-month-old son Clarence at the farm she operates at her home in Solon, Iowa, on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. Edwards operates Wild Woods Farm and serves a few hundred customers through community supported agriculture program. Edwards is in her 15th year of farming. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Second year industrial technology student Alex Hume practices welding at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

Kimberly Machovec-Smith (right), one of the owners of Abbe Creek Gallery, smiles as she talks to Susan Hoyler about her painting during a pop-up painting session at the gallery, 101 First St. NW, in Mount Vernon, Iowa, on Saturday, February 1, 2025. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Co-owner Scott Whitson tastes a beer at BIT Brewery in Central City, Iowa on Friday, February 14, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

Iowa City West's Grace Fincham (12) and Iowa City West's Kate Van Waning (5) reach up to block Xavier's Libby Fandel (13) as she looks to shoot in the first quarter of the game at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Independence’s Braylen Bieber wrestles Mount Vernon’s Jaxon Anderson during day 1 of the IHSSA Wrestling State Championships in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

West Liberty’s Briggs Collins reacts after wrestling Algona’s Ashton Moreno during day 1 of the IHSSA Wrestling State Championships in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

Williamsburg’s Hayden Albaugh wrestles Davenport Assumption’s Gabriel Schnerre during day 1 of the IHSSA Wrestling State Championships in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

UNI’s Colin Realbuto reacts to the crowd after coming back to defeat Iowa State’s Paniro Johnson in a 149 pound match during a wrestling meet at McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Iowa State’s Cody Chittum reacts after defeating UNI Ryder Downey in a 157 pound match during a wrestling meet at McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Dubuque Hempstead swimmers celebrate after finishing the 400 yard freestyle relay and placing first as a team for the first time during boys’ state swimming at the University of Iowa Aquatic Center in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Dubuque Hempstead head coach Rick Loeffelholz embraces another coach after the Mustangs placed first as a team for the first time during boys’ state swimming at the University of Iowa Aquatic Center in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Dubuque Senior’s Zachary Heiar competes in the 100 yard backstroke event during boys’ state swimming at the University of Iowa Aquatic Center in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Dubuque Hempstead’s Logan Westhoff reacts after the Mustangs placed first in the 200 yard freestyle event during boys’ state swimming at the University of Iowa Aquatic Center in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

MFL MarMac co-head coach Chet Bachman (left) reacts as time expires in Quinn McGeough’s win over South Winneshiek’s Kyle Kuboushek during their 1A 165 lbs. quarterfinal match at the Iowa Boys’ High School Athletic Association’s 2025 State Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, February 20, 2025. McGeough won by decision 8-5. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Alburnett’s Shayden Washburn slaps the hand of a fan after defeating Woodbury Central’s Zack Butler during their 1A 175 lbs. quarterfinal match at the Iowa Boys’ High School Athletic Association’s 2025 State Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, February 20, 2025. Washburn won by major decision 11-2. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Don Bosch’s Kyler Knaack celebrates defeating Shenandoah’s Jacob McGargill during their 1A 165 lbs. championship match at the Iowa Boys’ High School Athletic Association’s 2025 State Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, February 22, 2025. Knaack won by. Decision 10-0. This is Knaack’s third state championship. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Sergeant Bluff-Luton wrestling head coach Clint Koedam reacts as his son Bo Koedam is declared winner after defeating Ballard’s Tucker Vitzthumduring their 2A lbs. final match at the Iowa Boys’ High School Athletic Association’s 2025 State Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Southeast Polk’s Nico DeSalvo (standing) celebrates after defeating Iowa City West’s Alexander Pierce during their 3A 113 lbs. championship match at the Iowa Boys’ High School Athletic Association’s 2025 State Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, February 22, 2025. DeSalvo won. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Callie Levin celebrates with her teammates after the Hawkeyes score against UCLA in the third quarter at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Steven Evans, left, prepares a few items for filming as Abriel Evans, 5, makes a face for the camera while wearing an inflatable unicorn costume for a video at the Evans home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Chris Morse of Polk County prays before speaking in opposition to House Study Bill 242 during an Iowa House Judiciary subcommittee meeting at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette via AP)

Iowa State Troopers remove Chris Morse of Polk County from the room after Morse exceeded her allotted time while speaking in opposition during an Iowa House Judiciary subcommittee meeting on House Study Bill 242 at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette via AP)

Iowa State Troopers face off with protestors following an Iowa House Judiciary subcommittee meeting on House Study Bill 242 at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette via AP)

Cameron Leonard (left) looks into the gallery as his attorney Defense attorney Bryan Tingle (right) talks to him during his trial at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Leonard, 27, of Cedar Rapids, is accused of fatally shooting a DoorDash delivery driver, Myron Snyder, 21, of Cedar Rapids, on Oct. 5, 2023 in an apartment parking lot. Leonard is charged with first-degree murder, intimidation with a dangerous weapon, going armed with intent, use of a dangerous weapon in commission of a crime and being a person ineligible to carry a dangerous weapon. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Prairie's Asia Beale (center) reaches for a loose ball with Prairie's KeaOnna Worley (left) and Iowa City West's Sasha Baldwin during the first half of their class 4A regional final girls’ basketball game at Prairie High School in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Prairie's Asia Beale leaps into the air waving the state qualifier banner as players and fans celebrate their class 4A regional final girls’ basketball win over the Iowa City West Women of Troy at Prairie High School in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. Prairie won 61-40. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Prairie's Emily Larsen (center) leaps into the air as the Prairie Hawks celebrate their class 4A regional final girls’ basketball win over the Iowa City West Women of Troy at Prairie High School in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. Prairie won 61-40. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Springville's Addison Merritt (4), Springville's Rowan Jacobi (30) and Springville's Kalleigh Greene (22) celebrate together after coming off the court as Springville leads over Sigourney in the final minutes of the fourth quarter during a Class 1A regional game at Iowa City West High School in Iowa City, Iowa on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Springville players celebrate after defeating Sigourney during a Class 1A regional game at Iowa City West High School in Iowa City, Iowa on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

A foul is called on Wahlert's Connor Walsh (3) as he tries to knock the ball away from Xavier's Kaleb Wilgenbusch (5) in the fourth quarter during a substate game at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

The United States’ Spencer Lee takes the mat during the FloWrestling Night in America wrestling exhibition at XTream Arena in Coralville, Iowa on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. The event’s card featured International wrestlers, former collegiate champions, and local high school athletes. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

David Carr takes the mat during the FloWrestling Night in America wrestling exhibition at XTream Arena in Coralville, Iowa on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. The event’s card featured International wrestlers, former collegiate champions, and local high school athletes. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

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