Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityKhushi Gurung, 12, dances during a Tihar festival organized by the Bhutanese Nepali community of Greater Columbus at Civic Park in Reynoldsburg.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityScott Heidrich walks down the side of the pool wearing scuba diving gear underneath a Santa Claus outfit before making underwater pictures with children for an event hosted by Columbus Scuba at Oakstone Academy in Westerville2. “He just wants people to love scuba diving because he loves it so much,” said Anne Heidrich, his wife.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityDakota Sheets, a Type 1 diabetic, injects insulin into his arm while working an overnight shift at a Speedway in Athens. “I’m technically supposed to be taking it in the back, but I can’t wait 30 minutes, half an hour, three hours to take it,” Sheets said. “If I don’t take my insulin I can possibly get very sick.”
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityTodd Penn (left) says a prayer for Papa Bear, who preferred not to provide his legal name, after giving out supplies and food to a homeless camp in southern Columbus. Penn is frequently accompanied by his wife, and gives out food and supplies every Saturday morning.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityJanet Newlon (left) a retired social studies teacher, plants a flag with other volunteers during a September 11th memorial event at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. Newlon said it was a general patriotic desire which drove her to attend the memorial.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityPamela Shields, a retired resident of the Olde Town East neighborhood who organizes the Urban Aging Residents Coalition, stands for a portrait inside of her home in Columbus. The group is for any person who is aging and going through the aging process,” Shields said. “We’re living our life and something happens, and we say, ‘what the heck I give up,’ and we cant’ do that.”
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityGerardina Boyd screams in character as Nightcrawler during a portrait at haunted house Fear Columbus.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityTennessee guard Jordan Horston (25) attempts to block Ohio State guard Taylor Mikesell (24) during the second half of a game at Value City Arena in Columbus.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityOhio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. (18) dodges a tackle attempt by Rutgers defensive back Kessawn Abraham (5) during the first quarter of a game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityOmaha Storm Chasers catcher Jakson Reetz (25) knocks the glove off of Columbus Clippers infielder Gabriel Arias (13) as he slides into second base at Huntington Park in Columbus.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityColumbus Blue Jackets forward Boone Jenner (38) spins around to make a shot attempt during the third period of the a game against the Detroit Red Wings at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityTrimble Lady Cats teammates douse Joe Richards, their head coach, in water after winning the Dvision IV district championship game 62-47 against the South Webster Lady Jeeps, in Piketon.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityFrom left, Zach Caruthers, Tucker Davis and Andrew Dodson cheer on Caleb Burnem as he shotguns a sprite prior to the Meigs Marauders basketball game with the Wellston Golden Rockets, in Pomeroy. Wellston went on to win 70-54.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityColumbus Blue Jackets defenseman Erik Gudbranson (44) fights with Montreal Canadiens forward Michael Pezzetta (55) during the second period of a NHL hockey game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityShaina Alloway (left) Reese Reed and Morgan Brodt laugh while watching their babies play inside of the Hope House where residents in the ABCs program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women live, in Marysville. “We’re all in prison here, we all struggle, but raising a child here is a whole different struggle that people wouldn’t understand if they hadn’t been there,” Brodt said. “And to have that with each other, it’s a bond like you wouldn’t… Like we’re learning, we’re learning to not just be parents, but parents in prison and we’re doing it together.”
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversitySteve Brown walks towards the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in an Easter Bunny suit, in Marysville. The infants regularly see a pediatrician and are enrolled in Early Head Start, the school readiness program. Additionally the program aims to give the children as normal of a childhood experience as possible. This includes celebrating holidays with crafts and activities, and visits from Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityPediatrician Andrew Searcy (right) and Abby Small talk during a schedule medical checkup for her 8-month old daughter Gianna while officer Joe Bisang attends his station inside of the ABCs nursery program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityMorgan Brodt kisses her son Axel inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. “Even being in prison I’m more free now than I was in the madness of my addiction,” Brodt said.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityA dream catcher is seen hung in the window of Reese Reed's room inside the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityAbby Small holds her 2-year-old daughter Quam Judah while her father and mother Tom and Terri Small hold another of Smalls daughter’s, Gianna Judah, while the two children meet each other for the first time at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityInmates move about the kitchen inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. Individuals in the ABCs program purchase their own food from a dispensary inside of the prison and take it back with them to the Hope House, where they live.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityMorgan Brodt talks with Corrections Officer Ernest Vehorn while holding her son, Axel, inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. “Whenever we get somebody in over [here], the line I always use is, ‘If you’re going to be in this place, you just won the lottery,’” Vehorn said.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityAbby Small (center) hugs her mother and daughter after saying goodbye after a family visitation day for inmates in the ABCs program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.
Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityShaina Alloway (left) Reese Reed and Morgan Brodt joke with each other while watching a baby monitor inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Women's Reformatory, in Marysville.
![Photographer of the Year - Large Market - Award of Excellence, Joseph Scheller / Ohio UniversityMorgan Brodt talks with Corrections Officer Ernest Vehorn while holding her son, Axel, inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. “Whenever we get somebody in over [here], the line I always use is, ‘If you’re going to be in this place, you just won the lottery,’” Vehorn said.](images/poyo4_22.jpg)
