“Helping Hands Loading Oat Bundles” 2nd Place: Norman Wood from Ottumwa. Stay tuned.2021-2022 Iowa Cities First Place: Sharon Scarff “Snake Alley in Bloom” Second Place: Drue Powers “Beauty in the Storm” Third Place: Justin West “Winter Capitol Bridges” Honorable Mention: Jesse Streinz “Chirstmas Past” Iowa Landscapes First Place: Wilford Yoder “Cutting & Stacking Oat Bundles Second Place: Brian Brian Gibbs “Rainbow over Motor Mill at Sunset” Third Place: Dave Austin “A Season Begins” Honorable Mention: Shelley Gerjets “Icy Start Iowa Water First Place: Scott Hoag “Port of Dubuque” Second Place: Josh Meier “Macbride Rainbow” Third Place: David Smith “Nightfall” Honorable Mention: Trent Hanselmann “Fall Over the Mississippi” Iowa Wildlife First Place: William Beardsley “Take-Off” Second Place: Tana Tesdall “Curious Fox” Third Place: Rui Chen “Night Tigher Basking in the Sun” Honorable Mention: Emily Harper “Buffalo” Honorable Mention: Jesse Streinz “Flying Low” Iowans in Action First Place: William Beardsley “Okoboji Regatta” Second Place: Lee Navin “Dayton Rodeo” Third Place: Will Hunter “Singing, dancing, playing, socializing and happiness!” Honorable Mention: Aaron Miller “Cattle Drive Down a Level B Road in Warren County” 2020-2021 Iowa Cities First Place: Justin West “Super Moon Iowa Capitol in Winter” Second Place: Josh Meier “Iowa City Fireworks” Second Place: Josh Meier “Iowa City Fireworks” Honorable Mention: Justin Rogers “Yankee Doodle Pops” Iowa Landscapes First Place: Dave Austin “Trinity Church Under the Stars” Second Place: Brian Abeling “Rollercoaster Road in Allamakee County” Third Place: Justin Rogers “Ridin’ the Storm Out” Honorable Mention: Scott Hoag “From Dusk to Done” Honorable Mention: Gary Hamer “Sunrise Rays Enter Dance Hall Cave” Iowa Water First Place: Brian Abeling “Horseshoe Bluff” Second Place: Gregg Alliss “Pine Creek Grist Mill” Third Place: Mark Iwig “Early Spring Sunrise at Big Creek Lake” Honorable Mention: Aaron Miller “Des Moines River Under the Milky Way” Iowa Wildlife First Place: Eric Williamson “Play Time” Second Place: Twila Ingham “Three on a Tree” Third Place: Willard Sharp “Eagle Landing on the Ice of Saylorville Lake” Honorable Mention: Chris Heyer “Dancing Great Egrets” Honorable Mention: Larry Dau “Catch of the Day – Mink” Iowans in Action 1st Place: Wilford Yoder from Iowa City. Many of the winter shots that I do have were taken when I was driving from one place to another and happened to have my camera with me, which I will continue to do. Brrr… I’ve been staying inside, working on my websites and blogs, and catching up on things that way. Unfortunately, it’s also been about -2 degrees… and that’s the high! Wind chills have been -20 degrees, and lower. Everything needed for a truly nice winter photo. Fluffy-type snow, which is best for those reflecting sunlight glints I keep mentioning. Take yesterday and today, as a case in point. Then again, for many of these people photography is literally their bread-and-butter. I admire photographers who routinely go out every week in the winter to get a shot. Yes, that’s right, I am a west coast, “first world” American, and I am not overly enamored with the cold. What are the cons, you ask? Well, there’s only one. But, I don’t have very many winter shots, because of the cons. It also helps that it has the aspects mentioned above, the texture and the glints of reflective light. It is actually somebody’s front yard, but is cropped well. It evokes a peaceful feeling, a quietness. There was something about the whole scene that appealed to me. It is down the road from where my photo club meets, and I stopped and shot this on the way in. Take this photo, for example: I shot this back in 2005/06, my first winter in Iowa. Especially when you can grab the texture of the snow, and double-especially when you can catch shimmering glints of sunlight reflecting off the snowflakes. Wagon in Winter, near Palo, Linn County, Iowa
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