Shutter to Think: A tender moment for a rescued horse

Alexa Zoellner, our outstanding Ogle County News reporter, was planning a story on a Dixon teen who rescued a horse. “Try and get some kind of intimate moment between them,” she said to me when we had hammered down the details on time, place, date.

I think this photo fit that request.

Judges for the Illinois Press Association thought the same when awarding this photo second place in the Portrait/Personality class in the 2021 awards. Zoellner, however took the “blanket of roses” for her story of Molly Weinzierl and Reno in the Feature Writing category. Congrats to my colleague on her success.

Here is the link to the story.

– Alex T. Paschal, follow me on Instagram @svmphotogs or message me at apaschal@shawmedia.com.