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,

(Sarah Jackson)
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.











Comments (3)
Nice photo but out of 67,000 this is the best you could come up with??? Isn't this a Rock Scallop?
Posted by RavenWing on July 2,2012 | 10:17 AM
This is a worthy photograph!
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