"Nature in California" Photo Contest winners

You can view the photos published in the Yodeler here.

Animals

First place: Andrew Taylor, "Flight", Alameda Estuary (printed in May-June Yodeler).
Second place: Jeff Caton, "Elephant Seals", San Simeon State Beach.
Third Place: Don Johnson, "Salmonfly", McCloud River Nature Conservancy.
Honorable mention: Don Johnson, "Collard Lizard", Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
Honorable mention: Nancy A. Piotrosky, "Big Blue Bird Over the Big Blue Sea", Santa Cruz.
Honorable mention: Dorothy Gantenbein, "Golden Egret", Baylands Park.
Honorable mention: Naomi Grunditz, "Amorous", Barker Pass.
Honorable mention: Dale Mead, "Sea Anemone at Low Tide", Salt Point.

Patterns

First place: Al Greening, "Beach Sand", Baker Beach, San Francisco.
Second place: J. Hennessey, "Aloe shows Fibonacci Series", Berkeley.
Third Place: Robin Mitchell, "Stripes", Muir Woods.

Landscape

First place: Al Greening, "Sunrise, Mono Lake".
Second place: Mike Brodsky, "Twilight's Song", El Matador Beach, Los Angeles County.
Third Place: Robin Mitchell, "North Side of Mount Shasta".
Honorable mention: Nancy Belcher, "Harbinger of Spring", Antelope Valley.

People in Nature

First place: Al Greening, "Photographers on Sand Dunes", Death Valley National Park.
Second place: Dorothy Gantenbein, "Dog's Day at Beach", Kehoe Beach, Point Reyes.
Third Place: Michael Arzabe, "Where's That?", East Bay Hills.
Honorable mention: Michael Arzabe, "Salmon Sky", Mouth of the Klamath River.
Honorable mention: Jeff Caton, "Vernal Falls", Yosemite National Park.

Flora

First place: Donald Johnson, "Mariposa Lily", Ring Mountain, Marin County.
Second place: Joan Davidson, "Shooting Star", Rush Creek Open Space Reserve, Novato.
Third Place: Will Forney, "Spines of the Heart", Twentynine Palms.
Honorable mention: Nancy Belcher, "Mohave Yucca", Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Honorable mention: Howdy Goudy, "Yucca's Eye View", east of Walker Pass, Homestead, CA.

Water

First place: Aphra Pia, "Ice Fractures", Lake Tahoe.
Second place: Mike Brodsky, "Sea Silk", El Matador Beach, Los Angeles County.
Third Place: Seth Novogrodsky, "Surf & Sand", Tennessee Beach, Marin County.
Honorable mention: Dorothy Gantenbein, "Velvet Water", Uvas Canyon Park, Santa Clara County.
Honorable mention: Joshua D. Baker, "Mist Rainbow and Frost Fringe", Lower Yosemite Falls.
Honorable mention: Howdy Goudy, "Portal Spray", South of San Pedro Rock, Pacifica.
Honorable mention: Aphra Pia, "After the Storm", Squaw Valley.

See this year's Photo Contest Winners exhibited
Schedule for Photo Contest exhibitions.

Thank-yous

The judging for the Photo Contest was done by a broad-based volunteer team of four photography professionals:

Anne Xu, of Anne Xu Photography, San Francisco;
Linda Hinrichs, designer and co-owner of Pentagram Design Studios, San Francisco;
Brenda Tharp, widely published nature and travel photographer, Novato;
Adolph Gasser, of Adolph Gasser Inc., San Francisco.

The contest itself was organized by a team of volunteers who have contributed many hours of brainstorming, schlepping photos, responding to e-mails, calling galleries, calling to solicit donations, computer time, etc. etc. etc. And they are still working to get photos to the exhibition places and then back to the photographers - and to organize next year's contest. Thank you, Wendy Wollish, Al Greening, John and Marlene Eastman, Nancy Belcher, Allen Stross, and Pat Yarbrough, and special thanks to Photo Contest chairs Aphra Pia and Wade Sherwood.

And finally, thanks to all the photographers for the efforts of preparing and entering their prized photographs. We hope that they - and many more of you, our readers - will submit photos again next year.

To volunteer to help keep the contest going, contact Aphra Pia at (510) 655-0969 or: or Wade Sherwood at (510) 531-8664 or: