First Place, Assigned Feature - Andy Morrison / The BladeZachary Hemry, 17 months-old, dives underwater as his mother Jennifer Hemry, Temperance catches him during an infant aquatic class at the Temperance Family YMCA, July 3, 2007.
Second Place, Assigned Feature - Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer “This is my little angel,” says Rick Kenney as he pins gold wings onto his daughter Hallie’s angel costume. Kenney is helping out with final touches just before his daughter goes onstage during dress rehearsal practice for Ohio Dance Theater’s “Nutcracker” at the Stocker Arts Center at Lorain Community College. In minutes, seven-year-old Hallie would be floating across the stage through smoke and deep blue lights, a vision of celestial perfection, dancing in her very first Nutcracker ballet.
Third Place, Assigned Feature - Tim Johnson / Suburban News PublicationsSunlight catches the intent gaze of Natalie Webb as she works on a class assignment in the 1860s schoolhouse at the Ohio Historical Society where Edison Intermediate-Middle School fifth-graders had lessons.
Award of Excellence, Assigned Feature - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunNinety-year-old Dorothy Brown is ready to take on a professional wrestler called the "Sheek of Arabi" as she gets carried away by the action at the Champaign County Fair in Urbana. Brown is a regular ringside attraction at the annual wresting event.
Award of Excellence, Assigned Feature - Cassandra Bergman / Suburban News PublicationsCarolyn Engelhart (left) takes a picture of Shannon Shell (middle) and Cara Dillion making funny faces prior to Grandview Heights High School's graduation ceremony.
Award of Excellence, Assigned Feature - Eric Albrecht / The Columbus DispatchDr. Don Burton makes a successful effort to capture a sick robin along a Suburban Drive. Dr. Burton was taking the bird back to the Ohio Wildlife Center to try to save him. The birds stayed in the area due to a warm fall then a quick winter freeze reduced their food supply.
Award of Excellence, Assigned Feature - Fred Squillante / The Columbus DispatchChess camper Michael Weaver, 8, lets the instructor know he's not sure what the notation of a move is. The campers were given boards and were to write the chess notation of a move described by instructor F. Leon Wilson.
Award of Excellence, Assigned Feature - Jeffry Konczal / Suburban News PublicationsLeah Schulze, 7, of Westerville hugs Kwincy, a 19-month-old yellow lab, Nov. 9 while at a training session at the Delaware Canine Companions for Independence office. Leah and her mother, Laurie, will take home the assistance dog after an 18-month application and interviewing process.
Award of Excellence, Assigned Feature - Luke Wark / Sandusky RegisterSavannah Beard, 17, of Clyde, laughs while checking a text message on her phone as she lays next to her boyfriend Mike Gates, 17, in the back of his truck as they wait for the movie to start at the Star View drive-in in Norwalk. Open almost 59 years, the Star View has given couples and families a friendly place to see movies for decades.
