First Place, Pictorial - Greg Ruffing / Lorain Morning JournalThe late evening sun casts shadows of festival onlookers and a blue balloon onto the side of a tent during the Lorain International Festival.
Second Place, Pictorial - Michael P. King / Ohio UniversityOld Bridge, N.J. resident Alex Hamburger walks past a memorial constructed in Staten Island, N.Y. honoring the victims of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack. The memorial, entitled "Postcards", has two walls 37 feet tall containing profiles of some 267 Staten Island residents who perished in the terrorist attack. Each crafted profile is unique and accurate to the victim it memorializes.
Third Place, Pictorial - Greg Ruffing / Lorain Morning JournalAvril Willoughby, 11, of Lorain is reflected in the mirror of her grandparents' car as she watches birds feast on the bread that she and other family members left along the shore of Lake Erie in Lorain.
Award of Excellence, Pictorial - Steven M. Herppich / Cincinnati EnquirerPatrick Donahue, 6, of Goshen raises his face to the mist as he cools off in the Cincinnati Zoo's Mountain Mist tunnel in the Comfort Zone exhibit of the zoo, June 2, 2004.
Award of Excellence, Pictorial - Erenst Coleman / Cincinnati EnquirerA group of children from the Westgate Family Childcare summer camp in Delhi stop and look at the West Coast Sea Nettle a type of Jellyfish on display in the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Ky at Newport on the Levee.
