Warching From The Balcony Level

Young dancers watch from the second floor of Generation as older performers take the stage on West College during Fourth Friday in Uptown. My Final Photo for May 23, 2025.

Young dancers watch from the second floor of Generation as older performers take the stage on West College during Fourth Friday in Uptown. My Final Photo for May 23, 2025.

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Spring Soil Sampling

Spring Soil Sampling

Farmer Kevin Scott displays a soil sample bored from a field off Cooper and Collegeview Roads where after having the sample tested will be planting a crop as soon as early April depending on soil and weather conditions. My Final Photo for February 26, 2024.

Into The Wind and Cold

Into The Wind and Cold

Foilboarder Jim Schneider works to lift his board onto its foil running into nearly 30 miles per hour wind gusts across Hoover Reservoir Sunday afternoon with other boarders. My Final Photo for February 25, 2024.

Piper’s Final Notes

Piper’s Final Notes

A bagpiper treads away from the American Legion Honor Guard and the family and friends of 97-year-old Donald Conard, World War II veteran and survivor of the Japanese strike on the USS Franklin CV-13, after his funeral Saturday at Blendon Cemetery. My Final Photo for February 24, 2024.

Bovine Winter Moon

Bovine Winter Moon

The full moon shines through a cloud layer as it rises behind the bovine and lunar weathervane atop Children’s Hospital in Westerville. My Final Photo for February 23, 2024.

Eastbound And Down

Eastbound And Down

A caravan of vehicles crosses Otterbein Avenue as they travel east on Schrock Road in a rainstorm about 15 minutes after sunset Thursday. My Final Photo for February 22, 2024.

End Of Elevator Day

End Of Elevator Day

Brick masons lower themselves on the ladder and support structure from a work platform at one of the elevator shafts for an apartment complex being built at the Galaxy at Polaris on Ikea Way. My Final Photo for February 21, 2024.

Uptown Girls, Scouting

Uptown Girls, Scouting

Girl Scouts from Troop 6195 wearing sunglasses to shield their eyes from the late afternoon sun offer encouragement to buyers at State and Main just a few feet from their Girl Scout Cookie stand where they accept cash, credit cards, and Venmo. My Final Photo for February 20, 2024.

Truth or Dare Day Off

Truth or Dare Day Off

A group of young girls take advantage of a day off from school and warming weather to play a game of truth or dare on the stage at the Alum Creek Park amphitheater. My Final Photo for February 19, 2024.

Winter’s Shadows

Winter’s Shadows

The oak tree at the corner of Brisbane and Barcelona casts its winter shadow across snow that remains on the ground after a weekend storm. My Final Photo for February 18, 2024.

Sledding At South Park

Sledding At South Park

Sledders gather at the top of the snow-covered hill at Alum Creek Park South after an overnight storm brought seven inches of snow to central Ohio. My Final Photo for February 17, 2024.

Snow Crash Waiting

Snow Crash Waiting

A line of westbound cars sits idle on Central College at the bridge below Hoover Dam waiting for police to open the roadway following a series of car crashes without injury during the evening snowfall. A group of drivers, passengers, and parents of drivers stand together waiting for tow trucks to remove their vehicles. My Final Photo for February 16, 2024.

House Cleaning In Winter

House Cleaning In Winter

The brick facade at the new Ampersand restaurant and apartment building on West College is power-washed Thursday as the building replacing the Book Harbor bookstore gets closer to opening. My Final Photo for February 15, 2024.

Watching Sports From The Shade

Watching Sports From The Shade

A young boy and man sit in the shifting afternoon shade, watching a soccer match on the Sports Field at the Community Center as others run, walk, and play along the path and fields. My Final Photo for September 18, 2024.

Four Cars. No Injuries.

Four Cars. No Injuries.

A Westerville police officer talks with a driver in a four-car crash without injuries at Maxtown and North State Street Tuesday night. My Final Photo for September 17, 2024.

Blue Sky Above, Awning Below

Blue Sky Above, Awning Below

An inspector walks the edge of a roof on a building in Uptown Westerville as part of a routine check of the structure. My Final Photo for September 16, 2024.

Hoses Headed Home

Hoses Headed Home

A Westerville firefighter retrieves hoses connecting fire trucks to hydrants at a garage and house fire Sunday afternoon in Westerville. My Final Photo for September 15, 2024.

Too Cold to Pop

Too Cold to Pop

Noah Whitt, 5, ponders the effect of an ice-cold Too Good Eats pop on his tongue before taking another lick offered by his mother at the Saturday Farmers Market in Uptown Westerville. My Final Photo for September 14, 2024.

Scooter Shadow

Scooter Shadow

A scooter rider kicks toward the incline in a bowl at Westerville Skate Park casting his shadow across the concrete late on a warm late summer Day. My Final Photo for September 13, 2024.

Kindergarten Cop

Kindergarten Cop

Westerville Police Officer Ryan Schleve talks with his kindergarten counterpart, 5-year-old Alan Lerner, a Mark Twain Elementary student, during the school’s 50th-anniversary celebration. My Final Photo for September 12, 2024.