Photography & Video

2023 :: IN PEOPLE The most common, perhaps only, unifier to be found in news photography: people. What did we as people do that was new today? A person did some new here. Some people did some new there. A collection of people endeavoring in the new,
2023 :: IN YOUTH #communitynews photography invariably involves young people — at play, at functions, taking themselves seriously, making fools of themselves, helping each other, making messes — being little humans figuring it out for th
2023 :: IN BASKETBALL #basketball is my favorite sport to play and shoot because the competition is person to person, with the goal up and above. So in terms of shapes, of figures in play, the people are always in tension with each other, but lookin
2023 :: IN SPORTS Even in competition, there is cooperation; an agreement of respect, an understanding of limits, the contract of boundaries, the implied health desired for after. This year found some great moments in unexpected cooperations of co
2023 :: IN FOOTBALL Nothing quite provides action and emotion like football. All sports produce anguish and elation, but only in football is it all multiplied by a minimum of 22. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ • The subject of a controversial game-changing pe
2023 :: IN ART From productions to painting, Toledo always has art “happening.” In these photos, each performance reveals the impact of art on people who savor and labor for art /work./ • Visitors passing through the Monroe St. ent
2023 :: IN FOOD Food is always about the people who touch it, who make it for you, who give service to your seeking of sustenance. In these shots, the food is of course secondary to the hands and smiles presenting it. • Jaclyn Curry, of Black
@toledowalleye hockey is back! Toledo Walleye defender Matt Anderson is upended by Kalamazoo Wings defender Connor Walters in a preseason ECHL hockey game on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023 at the Huntington Center in downtown Toledo. 📸 @thebladenews
Polar bear cubs Kallik and Kallu, meaning Thunder and Lightning, spend their first day on display with their mother Crystal @thetoledozoo
A nice product shot of a margarita flight — coconut, jalapeño, golden, and strawberry — from @carlospocoloco in uptown Toledo around mid Feb., in preparation for “National Margarita Day'' on Feb. 22. The ‘food holiday&r
Screenshots are multimedia. I can’t be stopped! 📸😉 Thank you @onpa_1951 This is my favorite professional achievement to date! The photography staff of @thebladenews teaches me everything everyday, so grateful to work with all of them, pre
#2022faves These are some portraits from the past year of the people being their most people-y 🧙🏼‍♂️👨🏼‍💼🥷🏻🙇🏼‍♂️🎅🏼🧑🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🏭💁🏻‍♂️💆🏼‍♀️👩🏿‍🎤 1.) Grammy-winning country rock musician @chrisstapleton
#2022faves Here are some of my favorite food moments from the past year recently collected for some contests 🤞 1.) Chef Kengo Kato’s father Isao Kato, visiting from Saitama, Japan, checks the taste of the broth and ramen noodles at his son's
Toledo police Officer Brandon Stalker's mother Cosette Stalker is comforted as family, friends, and fellow officers gather at a vigil in West Toledo on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. Officer was killed in the line of duty Jan. 18, 2021. Cosette said at th

FEATURED VIDEOS

UNDER THE HELMET

This 12-minute documentary follows St. John’s Jesuit, a Toledo high school football team, through it’s preseason as they prepared for their first season playing in a Detroit league.

It was a first attempt by The Blade at its own localized version of Hard Knocks, the popular NFL series. The length was to include preroll and midroll advertising.

OVER THE SHEEP FOR SILVER

Jacob Wukie is a 35-year-old husband and father of two girls in Fremont, Ohio who works as an operator at the water department of nearby Port Clinton. He’s also an Olympic silver medalist archer who practices by shooting diagonal across his property — over his sheep.

It’s the only way to get regulation distance, he says.

Wukie’s team won silver in the men’s team competition at the 2012 London Olympics. After taking time off for family in 2016, he returned to form for the Tokyo games. Though the team failed to medal, Wukie's inspiring story is an archetypal American apple pie kind of Olympic tale.

SERIALIZED FOOD SHOWS

I have produced serialized online food shows for The Blade for 5 years for two different food editors. The most current form is Meals with Maddie featuring Maddie Coppel. We work together on her recipe and script, and I create and direct each episode, including branding and motion graphics.

Cheap Eats was a restaurant meal show with former editor Mary Bilyeu that ran for 4 years, winning local media awards from the Toledo City Paper and the PressClub of Toledo.

Master Carol DeGroff-Van Zile leads the Great Lakes Global Taekwondo studio in Sylvania. Internationally recognized for excellence, two current students, Dr. Cora Lind-Kovacs and Lydia Delmonico, took home a slew of placement medals at the 2022 International Taekwondo Federation World Championship in Amsterdam.

Leading kids to adults for decades with the help of her own son, the family practice literally started from an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.