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A collection of articles, images, and stories from the worlds of photography and filmmaking.
Dance
“VAULTED” RECEIVES AWARDS FROM ASIANS ON FILM FESTIVAL
Asians on Film Festival awarded “Vaulted” with Category: Drama Short Vaulted Honorable Mention Category: Best Actor Edwaard Liang Winner Category: Best Actress Yuan Yuan Tan Honorable Mention Vaulted is the complex story of loss after love. It explores the strangeness of feeling the weight of another person’s absence and how that knowing comes in waves. With […]
Family
A VIOLET INSPIRED CHRISTMAS
Do you feel stuck decorating in red, green and gold for Christmas? Why not try something new. Violet. It’s one of my favorite colors. Violet is found in so many natural places. It has endless amounts of beautiful variation; plums, decorative cabbages, eggplants, black berries…the list goes on and on. Try decorating with any of […]
Dance
MARIA THE BUDDING DANCER
Maria is quiet and reserved until you get her dancing. When she danced through her solo she couldn’t stop smiling and you could see she felt alive when she danced. This beautiful girl is still training, but you know she’ll go far.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro Awards
Event: Staff Appreciation Client: Scotts Miracle-GroScope of Work: Photograph their event celebrating the employees of Scotts Miracle-Gro. This beautiful event was held at Wells Barn on the grounds of Franklin Park Conservatory. Between the open bar, live music, s’mores bar, delicious food catered by Cameron Mitchell and a good round of employee appreciation awards, the […]
Family
HAMM FAMILY IN THE FALL
Carolyn and her son Noah are know around the halls of BalletMet and have made their home in Bexley, OH. When she asked me to do family photos of her and her son I was all in. My favorite part about the whole session is at the beginning Noah was not at all willing to […]
Family
SENIOR PORTRAITS WITH ROSIE
Rosie is a talented young lady who recently moved here from Alaska. She’s in the trainee program at BalletMet and besides being a lovely dancer she’s also smart as a whip. This girl can solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute and has a bright future ahead of her.
Family
CHAMBERS IN COLUMBUS
This little family has a spitfire of a daughter on their hands. Caroline has got some opinions on how things should go and can you blame her parents for wanting to please her? Always great catching up with these three.
Dance
THE WASHINGTON POST: “DANCING IN THE STREET”
“Dancing in the Street” choreographed by Edwaard Liang, Artistic Director of BalletMet premiered in October of 2015 at the Riffe Theatre in Columbus, OH. The work was reset on the dancers of Washington Ballet and this image was used in The Washington Post.
Dance
INSPIRED: A COLLABORATION WITH BALLETMET AND CINCINNATI BALLET
Dance critic Steve Sucato reviews Inspired, a triple bill including Edwaard Liang’s Age of Innocence, Trey McIntyre’s Wild Sweet Love, and George Balanchine’s Who Cares?. This performance was a collaboration between BalletMet and Cincinnati Ballet performed at both The Ohio Theatre in Columbus, OH and the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, OH. Click here to read the review.
Dance
COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST INTERVIEWED SUE PORTER
Columbus Business First interviewed BalletMet’s newest Executive Director, Sue Porter. Read the interview here.

