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Loveland, Ohio – These photos of City Hall’s fireworks show on the 4th of July were taken by resident Bob Kessler. Bob shot these photos from the bank of the State and National Scenic Little Miami River across from Kiwanis Park where each rocket was sent into orbit. Bob was on the small beach at Nisbet Park.
Click on a photo to enlarge them and scroll to see them all. (All photos © Bob Kessler 2023.)
by David Miller
Loveland, Ohio – The photography of Sohani Gauniyal caught my eye at the Whistle Stop Pottery Affaire in Historic Downtown Loveland on September 3.
Sohani is a sophomore at Loveland Highschool. She said, “I first got into photography a couple of years ago, and ever since then I’ll go out in my backyard from time to time and take pictures of plants and the like.” She also says she also enjoys writing and rock climbing.
I later contacted Sohani and asked her if we could share the photos in Loveland Magazine. I told her that if the photo of the chess match was blown up to about 5 feet tall and mounted from the floor up, people would start to walk right into the room because the chess board looked so much like a tiled floor. She said, “The chess picture features my dad, and a chess set I got when my mom visited her family in India. What’s funny is that we set up the board so the move would be legal if you studied it, but due to the angle the black knight is coming from, it looks like an illegal move.”
“The coral is from my dad’s fish tank. I got a picture of it by putting my lens directly up against the glass of the tank. Thankfully, the color came out all right. Generally, the dark blue light we use to simulate “night” in the tank messes with my camera, but here it made the coral glow a nice neon color.”
Sohani accepts commissioned work and can be contacted at: sohani.gauniyal@gmail.com
Loveland, Ohio – On Saturday, December 11 from noon until 5 PM Whistle Stop Clay Works will have special Holiday hours for shopping for Pottery, Sculptures, Ornaments, and Photography.
They will have lots of bowls, colanders, chip & dips, plates, mugs, holiday trays, and festive sculptures. You’ll also find fine photographs and sweet ornaments.
As is a holiday tradition, they will have gnome ornaments for $10 with the purchase price benefiting the League of Animal Welfare.
The studio will also be overflowing with holiday cheer and will be drawing a lucky winner for a festive evergreen tree tray at 4 PM (no purchase necessary and you need not be present to win).
Whistle Stop is located in the beautifully decorated Historic District of Downtown Loveland nestled where O’Bannon Creek enters the State and National Scenic and Wild Little Miami River. The Gallery is only one block from the Loveland Bike Trail at 119 Harrison Avenue.
Loveland, Ohio – On August 14 the Time Stamp band performed 80’s and 90’s rock and roll covers at the Town Fountain and railroad station in Historic Downtown Loveland.
Photos by David Miller/Loveland Magazine © 2021
This photo was taken by Scott Carney at Landen Lake last Saturday evening… “in between all the pop-up storms.”
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Loveland, Ohio – A photo essay by Loveland Magazine photographer Alex Eicher of the romantic Loveland High School Prom held aboard a B&B Riverboat on a picturesque Ohio River cruise on Saturday, May 8th.
All photos are by Alex Eicher/Loveland Magazine ©2021.
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All photos are by Alex Eicher/Loveland Magazine ©2021.
Please contact Alex for REPRINTS or PERMISSION to download.
by Cassie Mattia
Loveland, Ohio – It’s no secret that there are a lot of creative minds in the Loveland area; the secret lies within the hidden talents that many of Loveland’s community members and local business employees hold deep down inside of them. One of these individuals is Larry Smith, a Loveland Hardware Store employee and beyond talented photographer!
Although Smith is technically retired he decided that he just couldn’t sit around and do nothing with his retirement so he decided to take a position at The Loveland Hardware Store, located in the heart of Downtown Loveland on Broadway Street next to Mile42 Coffee, and rekindle his passion for photography!
Smith shared his background with us as well as some fantastic photos he took of the Loveland area!
“I’ve been doing photography for 30 years as a hobby and absolutely love it. Landscape and God’s nature are my favorite things to shoot but of course, I love taking pictures of my family and especially our grandkids doing their activities,” Smith said. “The sunset picture (the feature image in this article) was taken in the fall of 2020 behind the Monkey Bar & Grill. It was one of those ‘right places at the right time’ and I was blessed to capture it. The 22/3 Viaduct picture (photo pictured below) was taken in the winter of 2020. My grandparents lived in this area when I was growing up and I always admired that bridge. I try to capture it at least every season of the year.”
We would like to thank Larry Smith for providing us with these beautiful photos and encourage anyone in the community who has hidden talents to share them with us by writing us a “Letter To The Editor.”
If you absolutely love Smith’s photos like we do you can contact him to take photos for you at LarrySmithPhotography1@gmail.com.
Stay tuned to more of your Loveland Salad With Me, Cassie Mattia!
Loveland, Ohio – Loveland photographer Cindy Wilmes says, “Running through sunshine and puddles is such a great mantra for life!”
I took this after a pop up shower on one of my long 10 mile runs through Loveland in early September. I stopped to enjoy the puddles by the Loveland Museum and loved that the water was clear enough to see my reflection! I thought it was so neat to see the blue skies bouncing back through the pool of water—I had to snap a picture!
“With all that’s going on in the world and in each of our vastly different lives, taking some time to look up and ponder at space always shows you how small we really are.”
On a recent week-long family vacation to a house along Lake Leelanau, Michigan, Loveland photographer, Joe Timmerman said that most nights were spent by the fire, watching the smoke burn towards the summer stars. “One night my parents were at the end of the backyard’s dock when they noticed a golden streak in the sky.”
Their guesses on what it was were confirmed with a news update the next morning: a new comet was passing Earth.
Comet Neowise!
Timmerman said, “Within a few days, all my favorite photographers I follow were posting about Neowise. I found out it’s a three-mile wide ball of methane and ammonia, filled with rock and ice, with a tail that’s nearly a million miles long, and it is moving at 17,500 miles per hour. The last time this comet passed Earth was around 5,000 BC, and it won’t come back for another 7,000 years.”
“With all that’s going on in the world and in each of our vastly different lives, taking some time to look up and ponder at space always shows you how small we really are,” Timmerman said when he said.
Joe took the photo on July 17 around 11 PM.
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Loveland, Ohio – First-year Loveland High School student, Olivia Smith recently received a moon lamp as a present from a very close friend of hers. She said that it usually sits on a ceramic hand but thought this would be a cool picture. She said, “So I turned the room lights off and turned the moon on. I put a timer on my iPhone, held my phone with my chin and chest, and took the picture.” She said it took her two tries to frame the image.
