Victoria Bennet, Madeleine Miller and Lauren Worley rush back to their dressing room following a performance of a variation from “La Bayadere.” During their training in the pre-professional program at BalletMet, young dancers spend hours rehearsing classical repertoire and contemporary choreography.
Anna Murphy, also known by her online pseudonym, Nonstop, sports a Rainbow Dash costume from the popular animated television series, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” at the second annual TrotCon — a convention for fans of the show to meet, buy and sell fan art and participate in forums. The convention continues through Sunday at the Sheraton Columbus at Capitol Square.
Auctioneer Todd Woodruff helps call bids during the Sale of Champions on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 at the Ohio State Fair. Some of the funds from the annual livestock auction are returned to the Youth Reserve Program, which funds scholarships, 4-H and FFA.
Gene Dennis, former mayor of Logan, Ohio, finishes a cup of coffee at Dee’s Diner in Hocking County, Ohio Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Dennis visits the small restaurant about once a week since his wife passed away from Alzheimer’s disease last December. The pair ate at the restaurant three times a week for nearly 20 years.
Playing board games, such as Yahtzee, is one way for inmates at the Fairfield County Jail to pass the time. The county jails currently hold about 200 inmates in dated cell blocks. The cell blocks in the East Main Street Jail Complex currently house about 20 inmates in cells designed for only four people.
Trees loom over a tea plantation in Kenya.
Veteran ballet dancer Carrie West will dance the Sugar Plum Fairy in BalletMet’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. West is in her 15th season with the company.
Babe, a Hangin’ Tree Cow Dog, leaps out of an all-terrain vehicle to round up cattle on Scott and JoAnn Pfeiffer’s grass-fed beef farm in Athens, Ohio. The couple split their time between teaching agriculture at Federal Hocking High School and raising their 50-head herd.
Third and fourth grade students at Faith Academy in Lancaster create paintings in the style of Renaissance-era painter and sculptor, Michelangelo, Wednesday afternoon in their art class. The students embodied the method the famed artist used when working on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.