Truck Smashes Through Photo Store Causing $100,000 in Damage
Midwest Photo has been burglarized in a big way for a second time in five years. Surveillance video caught a truck crashing into the store as the opening act to the crime.
Midwest Photo has been burglarized in a big way for a second time in five years. Surveillance video caught a truck crashing into the store as the opening act to the crime.
Two Ohio teens whose actions led to the death of a local photographer on Labor Day 2019 have plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and been sentenced to three years in juvenile detention, bringing the sad story of Victoria Schafer's untimely death to some sort of conclusion.
Large gatherings, including wedding receptions and other events, have been banned in Ohio since mid-March, but that's all about to change. As of June 1st, Ohio will begin allowing wedding receptions with up to 300 guests, effectively re-opening the wedding photo industry... with some restrictions.
A judge in Ohio has decided that the two teenagers charged with killing 44-year-old photographer Victoria Schafer in Hocking Hills State Park two months ago will be tried as adults. If convicted, they could face life in prison.
The priceyness and portability of photo gear makes camera rental and retail outlets a popular target of burglars, and last week yet another big name in the industry was looted. The camera store Midwest Photo in Columbus, Ohio, was broken into on March 15th, and a huge number of items were stolen.
The camera never moves, the interval never changes, there's no crazy 'flow-motion' skills involved and what is captured isn't a picturesque landscape... and yet, this time-lapse gabbed us and wouldn't let go.
What's captured in this three-and-a-half-minute time-lapse is an Amish barn raising... about a month of construction done in all of 10 hours. But more than that, it's the power of team work.
In a lawsuit filed this Monday, Ohio-based model Nicole Forni is seeking half a million dollars in damages from Columbus photographer Joshua Resnick after he sent photographs from a shoot they collaborated on to at least three dozen pornographic-oriented web outlets.
There are two sides to every story, but in the case of Ohio copy machine repairman and aerial videography hobbyist Kele Stanley, his side is drastically different from that of the police who arrested him for flying his camera drone over the site of a car crash.