First Place, Portrait Personality - Logan Riely / Ohio UniversityCharlotte Echols, 5, holds onto the neck of her swim instructor Julia Mortenson as they cross the pool underwater in mermaid swimsuits at the Mermaid Swim School in Colorado Springs. The swim school offers mermaid classes to little kids and a monthly siren swim for adults who want to play in a pool wearing a mermaid tail.
Second Place, Portrait Personality - Joshua A. Bickel / ThisWeek Community NewsEdna Pache sits under a hair dryer while at The Cutting Edge salon in Grove City. The salon is a laboratory for cosmetology students, and Ms. Pache has been coming to the school almost every week for more than 30 years to get her hair done.
Third Place, Portrait Personality - Isaac Hale / Ohio University"A lot of people try to be somebody else, something that they're not,” said SEPTA Correctional Facility resident Steven Hipps. “You go to prison and a lot of white guys try to act like they're black, try to fit in with all the black guys. They pretty much got power in most penitentiaries. I just kind of put it out there that I ain't on that shit."
