The morning sun casts shadows across the grounds of the San Xavier del Bac Mission in Tucson, Arizona, on Feb. 24, 2023. Founded in 1692, and now located on Tohono O'odham Nation land, the mission still holds regular mass and is a site of pilgrimage for many worshipers.
The gate operator watches the contestants on the final day of the All American Youth Horse Show in Cooper Arena on May 14, 2023, at the Ohio Expo Center and Fairgrounds in Columbus, Ohio.
Local historian Marjorie Stone photographed in her Athens, Ohio, home on April 3, 2019. Stone was a key founder of the Athens County Historical Museum, now the Southeast Ohio History Center, and served as the museum's first executive director. She is the author of two books on the region: "As Time Goes By: A Pictorial Journal of Athens, Ohio" and "Getting to Know Athens County", coauthored with Elizabeth Grover Beatty.
The Lost Flamingo Theatre Company performs its annual production of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' on Nov. 1, 2019, at The Union in Athens, Ohio.
Ohio catcher Devonte Washington is illuminated by a beam of sunlight in the dugout during the Ohio versus Ohio State game at Bob Wren Stadium in Athens, Ohio, on April 19, 2019. The Bobcats lost the back-and-forth match 10-8.
Garrett Michael, 2, holds a candle during a vigil at the conclusion of the 2019 Interfaith Peace Walk in Athens, Ohio, on Sept. 11. Beginning at Ohio University’s Interfaith Chapel and ending at the Islamic Center of Athens, the walk is held annually by United Campus Ministries (UCM) and several local religious organizations to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Ohio Bobcats wide receiver Cam Odom (pictured) had 3 receptions for 74 yards in Ohio’s home loss to the Duquesne University Dukes on Sept. 11, 2021, at Peden Stadium in Athens, Ohio. FCS Duquesne upset FBS Ohio 28-26 for the program’s first ever win against an FBS opponent.
Street performer Jean Morabal performs a routine on a unicycle at Mallory Square in Key West, Florida, on Dec. 29, 2019.
Chris Riddle hunts small game in rural Athens County, Ohio, on Sept. 10, 2019. Small game hunting, once a tradition borne out of necessity in Appalachia, is now kept alive by people like Riddle. I spent an afternoon with him as he hunted squirrel near the outskirts of Athens. “It tastes just like chicken,” he told me.
Ohio State University men’s basketball player Seth Towns is detained by police during a protest in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on May 29, 2020. The protest was held in response to the murder of George Floyd by white police officers on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Towns was later released without charges.
Ohio's Ben Vander Plas drives past Toledo's Willie Jackson during the Bobcats' game against Toledo on Jan. 21, 2020, at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio. Ohio lost the match 83-74.
Ohio University student and freelance sports photographer Emilee Chinn overlooks the Ohio University campus and town of Athens, Ohio, from atop Bong Hill on Aug. 8, 2020.
The comet C/2020 F3 (a.k.a. NEOWISE) in the night sky over West Jefferson, Ohio, on July 17, 2020. The comet, nicknamed after NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space telescope, came closest to Earth in July of 2020 at a distance of approx. 64 million miles. It will not be visible again from Earth for another ~6,800 years.
The Corndoggers, consisting of band members Wolfgang Boyer, Joe Burdock and Tessa Evanosky, play for community members square dancing at Arts West in Athens, Ohio, on Nov. 21, 2019.
Marysville High School linebacker, and Ohio State 5-star recruit, Gabe Powers tackles Hilliard Bradley wide receiver Preston Wolfe during the first quarter in Marysville’s 27-7 victory at HBHS in Hilliard, Ohio, on Sept. 10, 2021.
Several musical acts performed on the Union Street stage during the 2019 Athens Halloween Block Party in uptown Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 26, 2019.
Cleveland State’s D’Moi Hodge dribbles the ball during the Vikings’ 101-46 blowout loss to the Ohio Bobcats at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio, on Dec. 6, 2020. During the game, Ohio recorded a nearly 13-minute 40 to zero scoring run, the longest run in NCAA Division 1 history.
A flamingo stands illuminated in a beam of sunlight at Flamingo Gardens, a botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary, in Davie, Florida, on Jan. 1, 2019.
Keshawn Mellon (top image, bottom image left) and Avery Pope (bottom image right) led the ‘Your Move’ Black Lives Matter protest on the steps of the Athens County Courthouse in uptown Athens, Ohio, on Aug. 20, 2020. The protest was held as part of the broader nationwide response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police in May of 2020 and in support of police reform, both in Southeast Ohio and elsewhere.
A Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball player warms up during Milwaukee’s 14-3 loss to the Ohio Bobcats at Bob Wren Stadium in Athens, Ohio, on March 5, 2021.
Ohio University College of Fine Arts student Maddie Jones (left) speaks to the university’s landscaping manager Susan Calhoun (right) on College Green in Athens, Ohio, on April 4, 2019.
Chris Roach (left) hugs Ric Wasserman (right) at the Pigskin Bar and Grille in Athens, Ohio, after Athens County’s vote totals were announced on Nov. 6, 2018, in Athens, Ohio. Wasserman (D) won election to Athens County Treasurer in the 2018 midterm elections.