First Place, Feature - Fred Squillante / The Columbus DispatchNo matter how hard they tried, Rachel Keller and Charlie McCarthy (not pictured) couldn't get their kite aloft at a park in Columbus.
Second Place, Feature - Diego James Robles / Ohio UniversityWhile reading her farewell speech to a large crowd of parents, supporters and local residents, Racheal LeAnn Frost breaks down in tears and falls into the arms of her longtime friend and pageant chairman, Kevin Bennett, on June 6, 2009, in Chauncey. Frost, the 2008-09 Jr. Miss of the Chauncey Dover Spring Festival, said, “I will miss all the girls but especially you Kevin.”
Third Place, Feature - Neal C. Lauron / The Columbus DispatchVann Norman, 3, of the Crew soccer team makes an adjustment to his malfunctioning shorts as coach Mike Scott goes over strategy during their weekly practice at the Buckeye Woods Elementary field, June 1, 2009.
Award of Excellence, Feature - Lisa DeJong / The Plain DealerPatterson Fruit Farm employee Juan Manuel Hernandez , 24, catches a pumpkin thrown to him so he can stack it on the cart in a pumpkin field owned by the Patterson Fruit Farm in Chester Township. This field has yielded four of these carts so far, about 500 pumpkins to each cart. They sell the pumpkins at their store front called Patterson Fruit Farm on Caves Road. Pumpkins are a huge money-making crop in Ohio.
Award of Excellence, Feature - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerAlexandra Rice, 8, of Olmsted Falls lets out a scream of terror as the cheese puff she was feeding the gulls blew back behind her where it appeared the gulls were coming after her August 4, 2009 at Huntington Beach in Bay Village.
Award of Excellence, Feature - Ed Suba, Jr. / Akron Beacon JournalFalling snow creates a soft blanket of white around 10-year-old Antonia McCants of Coventry as she tosses her disc into the air while sledding with friends at Firestone Metro Park. A sudden snowstorm that moved through the area dumping more than 8 inches of snow on the ground cancelled school for the day.
Award of Excellence, Feature - Diego James Robles / Ohio UniversityScott, a self-proclaimed alcoholic, shares a moment with his intoxicated girlfriend after hours of physical fighting in the middle or rain, mud and alcohol, during Six Fest, in Athens, May 16, 2009. Scott and his girlfriend often fight inebriated about his drinking problem. Almost 13,000 young people from Ohio and surrounding states attended Six Fest. Heavy rain and a massive amount of alcohol made the festival a wasteland of mud and intoxicated people.
