2nd Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists
See the winning photos from our 2004 contest
Our greatest freedom
Carlos Hernandez
The flat broom, a Shaker innovation
Deborah Tacy
A rainbow of kayaks in Rockport, Massachusetts
Amy Pierson
Old Palouse House
DeWitt Beattie
Lighthouse on the Hudson River
John McShane
Fishing on Grand Lake of the Cherokees in Oklahoma
Joshua Hayes
Taxidermy animals flank the living room television
Lex Thompson
Empire State Building in the mist
Yurij Trytjak
The runway
Judy Helderman
Young ballerina
Guy Hudson
Bridge near Highway 37
Says Zwick, an architect, of Northern California's Black Point Bridge: "It reflects a slower pace of life that is quickly being lost in the area where I live." Built in 1911 by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the bridge straddles the Petaluma River, the dividing line between Sonoma and Marin counties. Marty Zwick
Parade day in La Paz, Bolivia
Amy Brill
Rothko and red shoes
Douglas Neuman
The Spring Flower Festival in Girona, Spain
Michael Giamellaro
Shadows and steps
Robert Orlando
Young dancer looks up
Susan Cook
Hand among thorns
Matthew Campbell
Bronze lady
Tom Lopresti
A green anole lizard in Hawaii
After a daylong drive through Maui, Maize and his wife, Kim, were pulling into a hotel parking space when he discovered the head of a green anole lizard "peeking around the edge of a leaf. I shot about three, four pictures, but [this] one was my favorite." Howard Maize
Chicago chairs
Jill Weiler
Zebra challenge
Eleanore Avery
Sunflower bloom in endless field
Jamie Davenport
Light and shade at Grand Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
Jeff Dejoannis
Dragonfly resting on a flower
Jean Noren
Hide and seek in the sculpture
Marlo Sarmiento
Pensive primate at the St. Louis Zoo
Keith Jochim
Penang, Malaysia
Khoo Phaik Hoe
Windy November
Jeremy Powitz
Small canoe on a foggy day
Suzanne Lestage
Flora of the Philippines
Says De Leon, a graphic artist for Manila's NET 25 television: "I have been shooting plants in the [office] garden for years, and then I found this combination, which closely resembles the colors and form of our national flag." Samuel De Leon
Hmong girl and baby in Binh Lu, Vietnam
Miguel De Casenave
Dance number during the Kennebunk Variety Show
Sharon Lee Hart
Morning greeting
Mona Makela
Legend of the fall
Jim Johnston
Indian laborers cooking before work
Kaustubh Ray
Woman visiting family member in Haitian hospital
Mike Roth
My son, stopping for a photo while his cousin races past
Rusty Webb
Masai hand, Tanzania
Amitai Schwartz
An old lady taking a sunbath on a January day
Czintos Ödön
A floating market in Thailand
Jane Abrams
A man about to give a haircut
"I really needed a haircut, so I stepped into Benny White's Arco Barber Shop. I sat down in that old, red chair and received one of the most attentive and quality haircuts of my life. Afterward I thanked White and asked him if he wouldn't mind me taking his portrait." Joshua Dudley Greer
Monks at Cambodia's Angkor Wat
John Goodwin
Harvard University's clubhouse
Ivan Kovalev
Moroccan girl on her way to school
Joan Weiss
The bamboo forest of Arashiyama, Japan
Alexander Wu
Boy in a rural Kenyan eatery
Ethan Yeh
Bicycles parked along an Amsterdam canal
Timothy Rybicki
A green bench in New York City
"I was bored waiting for a bus on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, so I started taking photos of people sitting on the benches. When the bus came, the benches emptied out and I noticed the beautiful curve and color of the bench and concrete. I missed the bus because I couldn't stop taking photos." Jane Linders
Morning reflection on Bowman Lake, Glacier National Park
Steve Estes
Climbers on "Big Red" in Namibia
Leo Dos Remedios