Announcing the Winners of Our 9th Annual Photo Contest

Our editors pored over more than 67,000 photographs, each one a postcard from a unique time and place

  • By Jesse Rhodes
  • Smithsonian magazine, July-August 2012,
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(Sarah Jackson)


Altered Images Winner

Sarah Jackson, Age 38
Montevallo, Alabama • Photographed February 2009
A not unusual vacation shot at the Georgia Aquarium became a striking winner with digital manipulation. “I tried a negative filter and loved the look of the glowing, otherworldly octopus,” Jackson says.

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Comments (3)

Nice photo but out of 67,000 this is the best you could come up with??? Isn't this a Rock Scallop?

This is a worthy photograph!

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