POWELL, WYOMING 鈥 Award winners for the 4th annual 榴莲直播 Community Photography Contest and Exhibition have been announced, with selections made in amateur, professional, and high school divisions. The exhibit opened on January 29 at Plaza Diane in Powell and features 34 images from 11 amateur and professional photographers from Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming alongside the top 10 entries from high school students across the country.

Proceeds from the exhibition entry fees were used to award first, second, and third place images in the amateur and professional categories, with the remaining proceeds going toward future photography scholarships. Retired NWC Professor Emeritus of Photography Craig Satterlee served as this year鈥檚 juror. Satterlee has been a fine art and commercial photographer for more than 53 years and served as a professor at NWC for 36 years.

The annual High School Photography Contest, sponsored the last ten years by the NWC photography program, featured entries from 261 students from 21 schools in 10 states including Colorado, Ohio, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Idaho, Florida, Montana, and Wyoming. Students entered up to three images in five categories that included people, nature, sports, human interest, and commercial food and product photography.

From these categories, the top ten images were selected by photographic communications faculty and staff members Jennifer Litterer-Trevino, Jayne Johnson, Christine Garceau, and Ronnie Wolfe, for printing, matting, and framing, and advanced to the semifinal judging. First, second, and third place were then selected from the ten printed in the gallery. These winners and their teachers will receive prizes that have been co-sponsored by Robert鈥檚 Camera of Indianapolis and the NWC Photographic Communications program.

High School Award Winners

  • 1st place: 鈥淐hoco Musk at Sea鈥, by Allan Chavez-Rojas (Tulsa Tech in Tulsa, Oklahoma)
  • 2nd place: 鈥淭he Foxes鈥, by Eden Forsythe (Bozeman High School in Bozeman, Montana)
  • 3rd place: 鈥淒unked鈥, by Luke Lehmann (Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida)
  • Honorable Mention: 鈥淪enior鈥檚 Hour鈥 by Landrie Hamilton (Tulsa Tech in Tulsa, Oklahoma)
  • Honorable Mention: 鈥淟onely Tree Spot GOTG鈥 by Zachary Vik (Fountain-Fort Carson High School in Fort Carson, Colorado)

Amateur Award Winners

  • 1st place: 鈥淗oneybee in Salvia鈥, by Kristi Taylor (Powell, Wyoming)
  • 2nd place: 鈥淭he Watcher鈥, by Lora Ginnetti (Cody, Wyoming)
  • 3rd place: 鈥淧eaceful Respite on the Atlantic鈥 by Cyndy Jahn-Thomas (Powell, Wyoming)

Professional Award Winners

  • 1st place: 鈥淓legance鈥, by Heather Cole (Powell, Wyoming)
  • 2nd place: 鈥淯p the B Gap鈥, by Jeff Codevilla, (Spearfish, South Dakota)
  • 3rd place: 鈥淪am Abell is My Dark-Eyed Junco鈥, by Shane Epping (Laramie, Wyoming)

The exhibition brings together photography enthusiasts of all ages to celebrate the visual diversity the photographic world has to offer. The photographs will remain on display at Plaza Diane through Saturday, February 28.

For more than forty-nine years, NWC Photographic Communications has been offering degrees in commercial photographic practices to all ages seeking a career in professional photography. The workforce ready vocational program has prided itself on constantly evolving to enrich and engage its students and the surrounding community with the best the world of photography has to offer.