1st Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists
See the winning photos from our 2003 contest



Havana, Cuba • Photographed November 2003
Pyburn had just settled into her 14th-floor hotel room when she looked down at an "old street slicing through the city, fat pillars of buildings in deep disrepair.... I now see that the juxtaposition of rooftops sets up an intriguing study of present-day life in Havana." Susan Pyburn
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Asheville, North Carolina • Photographed May 2003
Soufas describes this driveway photo of her dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Grady, as a "rhythmic pattern of spots and rocks" the painter "George Seurat might be intrigued by. Pointer-lism, if you will (sorry, Georges)." Marianne Soufas
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Black Rock Desert, Nevada • Photographed August 2003
Odom was at the Burning Man arts festival when she came upon Michael Christian welding the final pieces of his sculpture Klimax. "I love the lighting and the sparks from the welder's torch," she says. "It makes me smile." Linka A. Odom
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Zanesville, Ohio • Photographed September 2003
Science teacher and pilot Irene Baron spotted these flags from a Cessna 172 during her town's bicentennial celebration. Baron says that event coordinators instructed the people carrying them "via loudspeaker" to smile for the camera Irene Baron
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Ksar Ghilane, Tunisia • Photographed April 2003
"Despite all the warning to the contrary," says Andreatta, an engineer, who severely taxed his patience to capture this beetle, "I took my camera into the desert and still have Sahara dust in it to prove it." Alejandro Andreatta
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Cranfills Gap, Texas • Photographed October 2003
Robinson was drawn to this former Norwegian settlement, where her own grandfather once lived. "The tree with its great arms stretched out and the church underneath... these things remind me of the great pioneers of Texas." Laura L. Robinson
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