Judge’s Comments
This photographer employs perspective and an interesting comparison of scale in this composition. This image provides multiple opportunities for interpretation, including socio-ecological statements as well as science-fiction narratives.

Judge’s Comments
This motion blur portrait of a long departed crowd lingering outside a dress shop stimulates a forensic process for the viewer that starts with a dark and nearly abandoned street and rewinds time. This image captures the multifaceted impact that people have on a space.

Judge’s Comments
This powerful vertical composition preserves the details found in Ansel Adam’s photography of the American West. The silhouetted portrait of the double pines in the foreground holds equal reverence with the expansive landscape that presses the depth of field thousands of miles into the horizon. Similarly, the cerulean blue reflection of the peaks is reminiscent of Hokusai’s The Great Wave.

Judge’s Comments
This black and white image of a lone preening waterfowl captivates the viewer with its natural form, color, and various surfaces. The photographer isolates the subject and its reflection slightly left of center amidst a field of black, providing a satisfying nod to photographic giants, such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Edward Weston.