A massive slide at Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine, which occurred on Wednesday, April 10, is shown on Thursday, April 11, 2013. Ravell Call, Deseret News
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After 41 1⁄2 years as a photojournalist, 36 of those years with the Deseret News, Ravell Call hung up his camera straps for the last time this month. Here’s just a small sampling of the amazing images he captured in his time as a staff photographer, photo editor and most recently, the Deseret News’ chief photographer.

Mildred Villaflores, a member of the Ormoc 2nd Ward, bathes son Arthur King Villaflores at a chapel in the Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Members of a SWAT team work at the scene of a standoff in Ogden on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Lone Peak golfers celebrate winning the girls 5A state championship at Wasatch Mountain State Park in Midway on Tuesday, May 17, 2016. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Melaki Hames jokes with his arms inside his T-shirt as he receives a carton of milk from a friend during school lunch at Washington Elementary School in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Rhyan White, of Cottonwood, competes in the 100-yard backstroke during the 5A state high school swimming championships in Provo on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A wildfire burns above Farmington on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. In the foreground, the ferris wheel spins at Lagoon. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Brigham Graff jumps and falls at The Canyons during a Big Air competition. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
An crashed airplane is seen on the slopes of Red Pine Mountain near Vernon, Utah, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. The pilot suffered minor injuries in the crash landing Tuesday near the border of Juab and Tooele counties. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A snorkeler glides along in the Homestead Crater in Midway. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Crews respond to a huge fire on the west side of Salt Lake City on Friday, July 8, 2016. Smoke from the fire caused I-80 to be closed. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Everett Joseph Gibbs is shown to his father just after being born and cleaned up at Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. His father, Spc. Paul Gibbs, is serving in Afghanistan and participated in the event through Skype. Krista Castleberry, a family friend, holds the laptop. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Firefighters fight a blaze at a refinery in North Salt Lake in the 1980s. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Dan Miller jumps between two boulders in Canyonlands National Park in the late 1980s. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A photographic view from the front seat of an aerobatic airplane above Logan circa 1990. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Karl Malone dives for a loose ball during an NBA game in Salt Lake City circa 1986. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
People cross a makeshift bridge over a flooded State Street in Salt Lake City in 1983. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A car is pushed up against a home during a mudslide in Farmington in 1983. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Braxton Brinkerhuff, center, runs for a physical fitness test during a summer school program at Oquirrh Hills Elementary School in Kearns on Monday, July 15, 2013. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
The Roy girls soccer team, left celebrates the go ahead and game winning goal as an East player laments on Oct. 25, 1997. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
The Rome Italy Temple is reflected in the window of the Rome Temple Visitor’s Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
BYU quarterback Robbie Bosco celebrates with his team after winning the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on Dec. 21, 1984. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Imam Muhammed S. Mehtar poses for a portrait at Khadeeja Islamic Center in West Valley City on Monday, April 11, 2016. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
People at the City-County Building cheer the June 1995 announcement that Salt Lake City will host the 2002 Winter Olympics. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Frank Jackson, of Lone Peak High School, is the 2016 Deseret News Mr. Basketball. He is photographed in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
An 18-year-old female is hoisted by Life Flight after falling at Lisa Falls in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Wednesday, July 6, 2016. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Bennett Ellsworth, left, and his brother, Ian, right, accompany their family as the casket for their father, Utah Highway Patrol trooper Eric Ellsworth enters the Dee Events Center in Ogden on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Monument Valley lightning. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Thomas Clayton adds some excitement as he teaches eighth-grade math at Granite Park Junior High in South Salt Lake on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
An air tanker makes a drop as fires burn homes in Herriman on Friday, June 29, 2012. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A sequence of photos shows a total eclipse of the sun, as seen from Palisades Reservoir, Idaho, on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Mike Kelsch rides his bike through water near the shore of Antelope Island on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018. Haze from an inversion is seen in the background in the mountains on Antelope Island. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Britton Johnsen celebrates with his teammates following the Utes’ semifinal win over North Carolina in the Final Four 1998 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in San Antonio on Saturday, March 29, 1998. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
The Salt Lake City skyline is pictured during the Olympics on Feb. 21, 2002. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
The Utah Capitol is seen from Beck Street on a cold, smoggy morning in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Alex Bury, left, Juliana Snow and the Rev. Eun-sang Lee, of the First United Methodist Church, leave the First Presbyterian Church during the Good Friday Procession of the Cross in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 25, 2016. At right is the. Rev Michael Imperiale, of the First Presbyterian Church. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A tourist walks through El Morro Castle in Puerto Rico on Nov. 6, 2003. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Cowboys move cattle at sunrise in the fog at Deseret Ranches of Florida on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A wave hits as fishermen pull in their net in Tonga on Thursday, May 23, 2019. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A large flag is placed at Lindquist Field for the funeral service of Ogden officer Nathan Lyday in Ogden on June 6, 2020. Lyday was shot and killed May 28 while responding to a domestic violence call. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Mutasim Alahmari sits on his mother’s legs and plays on a phone as Sumayyah Alsurayhah has her teeth cleaned by Josi Goodman during Junior League of Salt Lake City’s annual CARE Fair at Horizonte Instruction & Training Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 7, 2017. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Pfc. Chase Davis, right, of the 850th Signal Company at Fort Douglas, and Vietnam veteran Bob Fillmore salute travelers on Veterans Day while standing on the 2200 North I-215 overpass in Salt Lake City on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his wife, Sister Wendy Nelson, greet the Vargas family at the Hyde Park Visitors’ Center in London on Thursday, April 12, 2018. The boys are Juan David Vargas Saavedra, right, and Joseph Daniel Vargas Saavedra. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Jerry Naylor throws a horseshoe during a fathers and sons overnight campout at Hardware Ranch near Logan on May 16 and 17, 2003. The activity was sponsored by the Farmington South Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A giraffe walks in Nairobi National Park in Kenya on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Three Delta players go up for a block against Enterprise during the 2A high school state championship volleyball match in Orem on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Draper Battalion Chief Matt Burchett’s casket is carried into the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
People turn their attention to a ray as the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium opens in Draper on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Dora, top, and Esther Samche read books in their beds in the living room of their home in Kumasi, Ghana, on Saturday, April 21, 2018. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Delicate Arch and star trails as seen during a time exposure of approximately 15 minutes ending about 3:45 a.m. Monday, May 12, 2003, in Arches National Park. The North Star is in the lower center of the arch and other stars appear to spin around it as the earth turns. The photo is slightly lighter at left because of the moon in the west. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Phirun Manin greets Chad Furness, Asia Area Welfare and Self-Reliance director for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from her bed at the Mesa Prachan Health Center in Cambodia on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Karl Malone gives John Stockton a touch on the head as they wait to go into the game against the Charlotte Hornets in Salt Lake City on Feb. 1, 2001. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
People wave and cast shadows as they line the streets for the funeral cortege of President Gordon B. Hinckley of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The cortege moved through Salt Lake City to the cemetery on Feb. 2, 2008. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Joshua Zukerman plays guitar at the top of the canyon rim overlooking the Colorado River just outside of Page, Ariz., and just below Lake Powell on Sept. 22, 1997. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Mark W. Hofmann with father William, is pictured during a preliminary hearing on April 15, 1986. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Paramedics rush Mark W. Hofmann to ambulance after he was injured by a bomb blast in his car. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Rulon Gardner defeats Alekandr Karelin in 130 kilogram Greco Roman wrestling match during the Sydney Olympics on Sept. 27, 2000. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Hayden Richards and Jenson Rudd help build Ice Castles in Midway on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
A body is removed from the rubble following an earthquake in El Salvador in 1986 | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Bison in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming are pictured on Jan. 6, 2007. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
Dirt, hats and the ball fly as Cliff Snyder, of Waterford, is safe at second base as Panguitch’s Cameron Leach, attempts but fails to tag Snyder out during a 1A high school baseball championship game in Cedar City on Oct. 9, 2004. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
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