images and text from photojournalist Chris Mackler

Skydiving Outtakes

The Gazette has a monthly segment called “Coffeetown” where the paper profiles a randomly selected town within the circulation area with a couple of stories and photographs, and then invites the town to lunch with Gazette Employees. This month’s coffeetown was Brooklyn, IA. While shooting locals gardening, I saw people jumping out of planes. I went to investigate. (Photographs copyrighted Chris Mackler / The Gazette).


Corey Coleman, of Cedar Falls, receives final skydiving instructions from instructor Matt Yount (of Des Moines) before jumping out of the plane in a tandem skydive on Sunday, May 10, 2009. Skydive Iowa, located at 1922 Highway 6 in Brooklyn, Iowa is one of only a few airports that is skydiver owned. (Chris Mackler/The Gazette).

Corey Coleman, of Cedar Falls, jumps with instructor Matt Yount (of Des Moines) in a tandem skydive.

Aerial view of Brooklyn, Iowa on Sunday, May 10, 2009. (Chris Mackler/The Gazette).

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