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The deadline for submissions was
*February 27, 2009*
Thank you very much for your participation.
Photo Contest Winners
First Place: Jaime Ann Miller
Photo Caption: This photograph was taken at Gring's Mill Recreation Center in Berks County, PA.
The photo captures the water's natural, beautiful movement, color, and reflection.
The stone that composes the bridge above the flowing waterfall is not immune to nature's effects.
A beautiful mosaic of earthy, rustic colors is put on full display as a result of the bridge's surrounding environment.
The cracked, weathered stone's exterior shows that nature is powerful enough to impact and change strong, man-made structures.
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was." - Toni Morrison
Second Place: Aaron Diefendorf
Photo Caption: This iconic view of the cowboy's imprint within the once prosperous utopia of cow grazing land within the
Bighorn Basin, WY has now been abandoned. This land was luscious with grasses during the 1920's - the period of great western
expansion - but was destroyed from overgrazing and climate change during the 1930's leaving this land barren except for the sagebrush.
The cowboy icons of the west can serve to remind us of nature's ultimate control over humanity.
Third Place: Brittany Jayne Confer
Photo Caption: The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of the largest aquariums in the world and the home to this jellyfish.
They have created a special tank called the Kreisel Tank to suspend the jellies as if they were in a true ocean current.
The aquarium makes these rare sites possible for any one with a love for marine life.
Honorable Mention: Aaron Diefendorf
Photo Caption: During the Laramide orogeny, ~70 million years ago, the rocks forming the Collegiate Range in south central
Colorado were uplifted far above the surrounding lands. During the Quaternary, the large sweeping valleys were carved out
of these Precambrian rocks. Soils formed over thousands of years, provide a unique ecosystem that supports a diversity of
flora and fauna.
Honorable Mention: Matt Ware
Photo Caption: I know this tree like the back of my hand. It sits alone in a empty field in Pennsylvania Furnace off of
PA 45 heading towards Tyrone. We've been seeing each other for about three years now. There is a strong bond between the
two of us. A bond I pray no farmer or wind will ever break. I know this tree, and I know this place...
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