1st Place, Pictorial - Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade, “Lunch”Ben Morales of Erie, Michigan, eats his lunch inside the entrance of the Port Lawrence Garage and enjoys the music of Ben DeLong during the weekly Lunch at Levis event Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Toledo.
2nd Place, Pictorial - Kurt Steiss / The Blade, “Rainbow Bird”A gull flies in front of a rainbow that appeared after a brief storm during Barefoot at the Beach at Maumee Bay State Park in Oregon, Ohio, on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025.
3rd Place, Pictorial - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Fall Snow”The first snow of the season covers a 1950s Ford as it drives over colorful leaves in Walhalla Ravine in Columbus on Nov. 10, 2025.
Award of Excellence, Pictorial - Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch, “Sun Rainbow”Bees fly through blossoming plum trees as clouds form a rainbow sun halo as seen from the west side of the Scioto Mile in downtown Columbus on March 27, 2025. The solar halo, or sun dog, is an atmospheric phenomenon caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in the clouds.
