Photography Portfolio

Allentown Night Market founder Kelly Braden climbs a sword ladder during a performance in June, 2022.

Surrounded by family and friends, Nicole Vickinovac(center) bows her head during a prayer vigil Saturday outside of Passavant Hospital in McCandless. As of Saturday, her husband Greg Vickinovac, an Middlesex Township firefighter, was on a ventilator in the hospital’s covid ward. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 02/27/21

Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree sacks Andy Dalton during a 2019 home game. [Photo Sebastian Foltz]

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] X Games gold medalist Danny Davis reaches for a grab during the annual Dew Tour in Breckenridge Colorado.

Barb Sarver from Butler’s Center for Community Resources hands out free rolls of toilet paper outside of the center’s office on Main Street in Butler Thursday. Seeing the shortage and to promote that their office remains open to assist the community, CCR organizers procured select items to hand out. The center coordinates connections to services related to mental health, aging, intellectual disabilities, substance abuse and other human service needs in the community. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Butler’s Devin Carney takes a shot against Hempfield’s Chaz Ewer in Thursday’s 81-77 home win. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 12/23/21

Slippery Rock’s Gianna Bedel clears the high jump bar on her way to a first place finish in Saturday’s Butler Invitational. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 04/24/21

Protesters in downtown Pittsburgh in 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. [Photo Sebastian Foltz]

Protesters march through downtown Pittsburgh for a Black Lives Matter protest Tuesday 06/02/20, in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police. Following multiple nights of protests that resulted in looting and violent clashes with police, a group that started on Facebook was able to conduct a peaceful march from Market Square to the Allegheny County Jail, the South Side and back to Market Square. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

North Catholic celebrates a double overtime golden goal by Jayden Sharpless to clinch the WPIAL Class 2A Championship at Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh Saturday. The Trojans topped Yough 1-0 in the closing minutes of double overtime. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Bees work one of the hives at the Cranberry Highlands Community Apiary. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 07/19/20

Josh Meeder of Harmony hands off a tire during Saturday’s Aquatic Alliance Connoquenessing Creek Cleanup. Seb Foltz/Buter Eagle 09/12/20

Dressed in a homemade Animal costume from the Muppets, Luckas Morris, 2, reaches into a candy basket in one of the community neighborhood rooms at the New Haven Court at Clearview retirement home. Costume-clad kids crowded the halls and made their rounds in the senior community trick-or-treating with residents Tuesday evening. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Parker Graham looks down trail racing in the kids 10-and-under class during Sunday’s Month of Mud mountain bike race at Alemeda Park. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 10/11/20

President Donald Trump points to the audience during his speech Saturday at the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport Saturday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 11/01/20

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Explore Summit] Cover shot for Colorado based Explore Summit magazine.

Senior Grace Sloan walks out of Seneca Valley’s NexTier Stadium after graduating Friday. Students walked individually with family watching from the top of the stands. Families had to pickup and drop off their graduates to maintain safe practices for graduation. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

President Donald Trump speaks to a large crowd during his Butler County rally Saturday at the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport Saturday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 11/01/20

Suzanne Vincent of Psychic Vincent Sisters Ghost Tours, attempts to channel spirits with her copper dowsing rods in the basement of the Kaufman House Thursday night. Vincent told guests touring the building, currently being rennovated, that she felt the presence of numerous spirits. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Seneca Valley students throw chalk into the air at kickoff as part of the student section whiteout night celebration to start the season at home against Moon Area. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 08/27/21

Kids in Mars didn’t mind rain for the Fourth of July Parade Thursday. Free candy and a chance to splash in puddles more than made up for it. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Janice Kochik, a nurse practitioner form Central Outreach Wellness, and Erik Wiesemann of Light in My City walk away from the tent of a couple living under a bridge in Pittsburgh, after offering services during a day of outreach in homless encampments around Pittsburgh. Photo: Sebastian Foltz 11/05/22

Loredana Yenick (center) lights Sharifah Rajchel’s (left) candle during a vigil in Zelienople Wednesday evening. Around 100 protesters lined the street corners at the intersection of Grandview Ave and Route 19 in Zeilienople Park Wednesday evening for a candle light vigil promoting the Black Lives Matter movement. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Slippery Rock wide receiver Jermaine Wynn Jr. hauls in a first quarter touchdown catch in Slippery Rock’s 65-59 playoff win over Notre Dame Ohio Saturday at home. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Knoch’s Teegan Finucan (front) and Kaden Spencer fights for a ball against Obama Academy’s Torrien Perkins in Saturday’s tournament game at Butler. Special to the Eagle Seb Foltz

Kobe Ulrich, 17, of Cabot fills turkey feed at Jones Turkey Farm Friday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 11/12/21

Seneca’s Haihan Xu competes in the 100-meter breaststroke at WPIAL Championships at Upper St. Clair Sunday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 03/07/21

Mike Parker of Lindora works on the sidewalk kraiken during the this weekends street art festival put on by the Butler Art Center. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 09/26/20

North Washtingon Rodeo [Butler Eagle]

Zavian Williams of Beltzhoover reads a poem about Natalie Thomas’ Positive Effect Community Garden with his sister Aniyah Davis, 6, at an event at the garden in June. Thomas’s garden is a place for area youth to help her plant flowers and learn a sense of community pride.

A bee pollinates a flower in a garden in Beltzhoover.

Allentown Night Market, June 2022. [Hilltop Alliance]

A firefighter sprays down the Hunter Truck fire in Butler [Butler Eagle}

Children work on a community art project at Mount Oliver’s Hilltop Harvest Fest, Sept. 2022. [Hilltop Alliance]

JuJu Smith Shuster extends for extra yards against the Seahawks. [Photo Sebastian Foltz]

John Bedortha of Lawrenceville drapes himself in a U.S. flag with the names of black people killed by police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the the Allegheny County Jail Tuesday 06/03/20. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Sebastian Osche, 9, of Butler pulls ahead of his father Seth Osche in the string maze obstacle in Saturday’s Tuff Tornado Run at Alemeda Park. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 10/02/21

Hunter Truck fire in Butler. [Butler Eagle}

Middlesex Township Volunteer Fire Company captain Greg Vickinovac, 41, battled COVID-19 spending 13 days on a ventilator at UPMC Passavant in McCandles. The longtime fireman had no comorbidities making that could have made him more vulnerable to the virus. Doctors said for some people the severe reaction to the virus seems almost to come down to bad luck. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle March 2021

Butler YMCA manager Allison Clarke lifts in the facility’s weight room Wednesday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 03/10/21

Butler’s David Bocci competes in the 100-meter butterfly at WPIAL championships at Upper St. Clair Sunday. Bocci won the event. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 03/07/21

Nicole Vickinovac(center) is consoled by family and friends during a prayer vigil Saturday for her husband Greg Vickinovac outside of Passavant Hospital in McCandless. As of Saturday, Greg Vickinovac, a Middlesex Township firefighter, was on a ventilator in the hospital’s covid ward. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 02/27/21

Butler’s Emma Lehman clears a hurdle on her way to a win in the 100 meter hurdles during Thursday’s home meet against North Hills and Fox Chapel. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 04/08/21

Butler’s Mattix Clement takes a shot over a Penn Trafford defender (5) in Butler’s 58-55 overtime road win Friday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 03/05/21

Kristen Raymond works on a tattoo in her Allentown shop, Herb N Ink.

A fan cheers at a 2019 Steeler game.

Steeler safety Minkah Fitzpatrick returns an interception against the Los Angeles Rams. [Photo Sebastian Foltz]

A police car set on fire during a protest that turned into a riot in downtown Pittsburgh in 2020. [Photo Sebastian Foltz]

A rafter does jumps off of Pillow Rock into the class V rapid during Gauley Fest in West Virginia. The Pillow Rock rapid is one of five class IV rapids on the Upper Gauley and a popular spot for rafters and kayakers to take a break and whatch people navigate the rapid. Photo: Sebastian Foltz

Rafters paddle through the Pillow Rock rapid on the Upper Gauley River in West Virginia, during American Whitewater’s Gauley Fest. Pillow Rock is one of five Class V rapids on the Upper Gauley and a popular spot for rafters and kayakers to watch boaters run the rapid. Photo: Sebastian Foltz

Kelly Braden is taking ownership of the Black Forge Coffee House in the Allentown Neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Braden already opperates The Weeping Glass store — also in Allentown — and founded the Allentown Night Market. Photo: Sebastian Foltz/Hilltop Alliance @sebfoltz

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Olympic snowboarder Arielle Gold of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, airs out of the halfpipe during U.S. Team training in Breckenridge, Colorado. http://bit.ly/2A0zEpr http://bit.ly/2zT5giE

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Explore Summit magazine] U.S. pro snowboarder Arielle Gold watches her brother Taylor reach for a grab during U.S. Team Practice in Breckenridge, Colorado.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz] A Tri-City Titan hockey player charges down the ice in a game against the Eugene Generals minor league hockey team. Photo part of University of Oregon master’s coursework in photography.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Tahoe Daily Tribune] Sierra-at-Tahoe’s Colby Albino drops a cliff in Huckleberry Canyon during big mountain competition at the first Sierra-at-Tahoe Huck Cup in South Lake Tahoe. bit.ly/1pblKKt

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] A mountain biker charges down course during an endure racing competition in Keystone, Colorado.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Former world speed ski record holder C.J. Mueller of Breckenridge, Colorado, poses with his old skis. http://bit.ly/2hGxD9i

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz] A Eugene Generals player takes shot on goal during minor league hockey game against the Tri-City Titans. Photo part of University of Oregon master’s coursework in photography.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Longtime local and former speed skier C.J. Mueller dons his George Washington garb for the annual Fourth of July parade in Breckenridge, Colorado.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Seventh Mountain Resort] Marketing and webpage photo for Seventh Mountain Resort in Bend, Oregon.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz] A butterfly feeds on an orange lily.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz] Goats graze on an alpine meadow in the shadow of the Eiger in Switzerland.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Tahoe Daily Tribune] A mountain biker airs of a slopestyle jump feature at South Lake Tahoe’s new Bijou Bike park. http://bit.ly/2zTuT2Z

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Explore Summit Weekender cover shot of Olympic snowboarder Taylor Gold of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn speeds down the U.S. Ski Team’s Copper Mountain downhill course during her first training session since tearing both her ACL and MCL in February. http://bit.ly/2B5skZr

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] U.S. Ski Team gold medalist Lindsey Vonn leans into a turn during a practice run at the team’s Speed Center at Copper Mountain. The practice was Vonn’s first downhill training session since tearing both her ACl and MCL in February, 2013.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] U.S. Ski Team’s Lindsey Vonn leans in to a turn during a practice run at the team’s Speed Center at Copper Mountain during her first downhill training session since tearing both her ACL and MCL in February of 2013. http://bit.ly/2B5skZr

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] A downhill rider charges the enduro course at Keystone Resort during competition in Colorado.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] A mountain biker speeds around a corner during endure downhill racing at Keystone Resort.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Tahoe Daily Tribune] Brian and Angela Luke of South Lake Tahoe, California, founded critically acclaimed Artemis Mediterranean Grill in 2010. The couple now owns two locations on Tahoe’s South Shore, both sites have become have become local favorites. http://bit.ly/2hP01d9

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Women’s X Games freeskier Keri Herman of Breckenridge celebrates her Dew Tour win in front of a home crowd.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Seventh Mountain Resort] Marketing and webpage photo for Seventh Mountain Resort and Seventh Mountain River Company in Bend, Oregon.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Tahoe Daily Tribune] Wreckage from a single-engine plane crash in South Lake Tahoe sits beside the residence that caught fire after the crash. The pilot of the plane and a passenger died in the accident. http://bit.ly/2zWbGgG

[Photo/Sebatian Foltz/Explore Summit Magazine]

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Seventh Mountain Resort] Marketing and webpage photo for Seventh Mountain Resort and Seventh Mountain River Company in Bend, Oregon.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Tahoe Tribune] Children test the beginner pump track during opening day festivities at the Bijou Bike Park in South Lake Tahoe, California.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Wavesport kayak company founder Chan Zwanzig of Steamboat Springs charging class III Wall Rapid on the Lower Blue section of the Blue River. http://bit.ly/2zNNygg

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Tahoe Daily Tribune] Cannondale Pro Cycling’s Toms Skujins crosses the finish line first during the South Lake Tahoe stage of the 2016 tour of California.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] A rider rounds a corner during the Firecracker 50 mountain bike race in Breckenridge, Colorado.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Cutthroat Anglers guide Mitch Melichar unhooks a trout caught on the upper Colorado River. http://bit.ly/2hEBvrx

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Children reach out for candy tossed from floats during a Fourth of July parade in Breckenridge, Colorado.

[Photo/Sebastian Foltz/Summit Daily News] Colorado pro freestyle skier Aarron Blunck reaches for a grab during the 2014 U.S. Grand Prix halfpipe finals at Copper Mountain Resort. http://bit.ly/2zaQhkV http://bit.ly/2jAqX0K