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3rd Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2005 contest

GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Bali cremation
Pang Piow Kan
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FINALIST: Natural World
A nuisance pest in our backyard
Ferdinand Singh
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WINNER: Natural World
Snowscape during a blizzard
Byron Arnao
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FINALIST: People
A Navajo silversmith crafts bracelets under a shaft of light
Colleen Miniuk Sperry
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FINALIST: People
A narrative studio photograph of two curious girls
Jennifer Zwick
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FINALIST: People
Rwandan genocide survivor
Sean Sheridan
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FINALIST: People
A farmer wends his way home after a day's work in the rice fields
McLloyd Jumpay
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FINALIST: People
The love nest
Sylvain Rivarolo
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FINALIST: People
Preschoolers in the Dominican Republic
Sheryl Lanman
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FINALIST: People
A view of a back and shoulders
Vincent Lyon
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FINALIST: People
Underwater ballet
Wendell DeLano
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FINALIST: People
Unusual portrait in a big hasty city
Zsolt Nyulaszi
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WINNER: People
Dapper man with cigar
Jeffrey Raheb
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FINALIST: Natural World
A showdown over nectar rights
Steve Irving
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FINALIST: Travel
Pilgrims on a stairway
Abhijit Nandi
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FINALIST: Travel
Farmers have bent nature to meet their needs
Alessandra Meniconzi
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FINALIST: Travel
Folk dancers at a festival in Jaipur, India
Lisa Shah
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FINALIST: Travel
Safari sunrise
Matt Duffy
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FINALIST: Travel
A sunset soccer game on Indonesia's Onemobaa Island
Lori Makabe
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FINALIST: Altered Images
Indian summer
Jenn Rhubright
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FINALIST: Travel
Masai warrior in Tanzania
Sarita Dan
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FINALIST: Travel
A flying horse
Tatiana Bitir
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WINNER: Altered Images
A zen lilly
Aaron Kotowski
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FINALIST: Travel
Children playing inside a backlit tent
Samuel De Leon
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WINNER: Travel
All in a day's catch
Amanda Mack
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FINALIST: Americana
Galaxie sky
Jenn Rhubright
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FINALIST: Altered Images
A foggy night in the Texas hill country
Gilbert Hernandez
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FINALIST: Altered Images
Nasturtiums: A tribute to Jackson Pollock
Bob Sears
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FINALIST: Altered Images
Abstract sunflower
Jon Bidwell
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FINALIST: Altered Images
Montage of scenes from Italy
Nancy Ross
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FINALIST: Altered Images
A leaf trapped in tar
Silvia Ganora
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FINALIST: Altered Images
Poffabro, Italy: The village that basks in time
Teresa Rasmussen
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FINALIST: Altered Images
Lone pine
Winthrope Hiers
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FINALIST: Americana
Night in the city that never sleeps
Eliud Martinez
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FINALIST: Americana
Vacancy at the Capitol Hill Motel
David Burke
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FINALIST: Americana
A cowboy chasing a stray cow
Henry S. Hamlin
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FINALIST: Americana
Two barns in the Palouse, Washington
Jason Zabriskie
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FINALIST: Americana
Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Ira Peppercorn
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FINALIST: Altered Images
Red forest
Andrea Jackman
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FINALIST: Americana
Still hanging on
Nathan Smith
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FINALIST: Americana
Boy ready to go into the game
Ron Olsen
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FINALIST: Americana
Brooklyn brunch through a pinhole camera
S. Liu
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WINNER: Americana
A day at the barbershop
Kivin Bauzo
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FINALIST: Natural World
A penguin enjoys the view
Cara Sucher
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FINALIST: Natural World
Lightning over the Snake River
Don Fleming
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FINALIST: Natural World
Blue iris
Henry Ruhl
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FINALIST: Natural World
Where the buffalo roam
Ed Cornachio
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FINALIST: Natural World
Fireworm moving in star coral
Jaime Villalta
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FINALIST: Natural World
Another vision
Kristina Buceatchi
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FINALIST: Natural World
Jellyfish
Mark Pickett
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