Natural Muscle Competitions

Written/Photography by Andrew Livelsberger Background:Natural Muscle Association is an organization for competitive body building where certain substances are banned from use by their competitors. Impression:If you love body building competitions, then this is one for you!  The athletes and routines are just like the bigger named IFBB competitions, with the only real difference being the…

A Night At A Columbus Blue Jackets Game

Written/Photography by Andrew Livelsberger BackgroundFebruary 4, 2017 – Columbus Blue Jackets versus the New Jersey Devils.  The Columbus Blue Jackets local NHL team. View from the SkyTerrace Impression I love shooting sports.  There is just something satisfying about capturing that moment in sports that encapsulates the essence of that sport.  If we are lucky we…

Ohio Chinese Lantern Festival 2016

Written by Dani and Andrew Livelsberger Photography by Andrew Livelsberger Background:39 large, illuminated displays adorn the Natural Resources Park of the Ohio State Fairgrounds.  The Ohio Chinese Lantern Festival runs from from November 25th 2016 through January 2nd 2017.  Viewing times are 5pm to 10pm nightly.  The Event offers lighted silk lanterns, food vendors, and an…

Columbus International Festival 2016

Written/Photography by: Andrew Livelsberger Background:Currently in it’s 61st year, the Columbus International Festival showcases the diversity in cultures that permeate the Columbus, Ohio area. Impression:I walked into the Celeste Center at the Ohio State Fairgrounds to the sounds of Bollywood.  The sites showed a diversity in cultures from all over the globe.  German and Irish,…

Ohio Veteran’s Plaza at the Ohio Statehouse

Written/Photography by Andrew Livelsberger Background:The Ohio Veteran’s Plaza is located by the 3rd street entrance to the Ohio Statehouse.  The plaza originally started as an act of civil disobedience.  Carl Chandler and Harry Edwards, two Vietnam veterans placed a 4×8 foot piece of plywood on the statehouse grounds in 1981 as a tribute.  For their…

Ohio Statehouse Remembers 9/11 On The 15th Anniversary

Written/Photography by Andrew Livelsberger Today is the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks here in America.   The Ohio Statehouse lawn was covered in flags, 2977 to be exact in memory of those who lost their lives on that day.  Close to 90 volunteers helped with the installation.  The display will stay up until…

Comfest Burlesque (Adult Content)

Written/Photography by Andrew Livelsberger Dimples Diamond Background: Per Wikipedia, Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.[1] The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which, in turn, is derived from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery. There were…