"Nature in California" Photo Contest winners

Landscape

First place: Dorothy Gantenbein, "Oaks and Shadows".
Second place: Al Greening, "Pfeiffer Burns State Park".
Third place: Matt Pritchard, "Presidio Trees in the Fog".
Honorable mention: Wade Sherwood, "Snow-Frosted Yosemite".
Honorable mention: Ginna Allison, "Storm Light".

Water

First place: Bill Durkin, "San Leandro Mist".
Second place: Tim Dallas, "Creek Detail".
Third place: Scott Lefferts, "Tamarack Creek".
Honorable mention: Dale Mead, "Wind-Whipped Waves at Sunset".
Honorable mention: Mike Brodsky, "Heading Home".

Flora

First place: Tim Dallas, "Wind Poppies".
Second place: Sarah Bardwell, "Fritillaria affinis".
Third place: Nancy Piotrowski, "Autumn Leaves on Apple Hill".
Honorable mention: Janet Stock, "Globe Lilies in the Rain".
Honorable mention: Yorick Phoenix, "The Climb to the Top".

Nature with People

First place: Dale Mead, "Morning in Pomo Canyon".
Second place: Dale Mead, "Cataract Falls".
Third place: Leo Dos Remedios, "Where's Glacier Point?".
Honorable mention: Sarah Bardwell, "Mazes in the Mist".
Honorable mention: Bob Cossins, "Variable Checkerspot and the Finger of Man".

Animals in Nature

First place: Dale Mead, "Pelicans Flock at Gold Rock Beach".
Second place: Sarah Bardwell, "Marmorata".
Third place: Joyce Hennessey, "Fritillary - Agraulis vanillae Caterpillar, Preparing to Pupate".
Honorable mention: Janet Stock, "Tree Frog Perched on Lupine".
Honorable mention: Seth Novogrodsky, "Pollination".

Patterns in Nature

First place: Anne Seasons, "Le Cheval Vert?".
Second place: Dorothy Gantenbein, "Monterey Cypress Detail".
Third place: Sandra Ruhl, "Branches in Autumn Against the Sky".
Honorable mention: Aphra Pia, "Passing Through".
Honorable mention: Mary Alyce Pearson, "Aging Beauty".

Honorable mention: Leo Dos Remedios, "Yellow-Jacket-Wasp Paper Nest".

Winning photos to be exhibited

Friday, May 27, through Thursday, July 14, EBMUD Gallery, 375 11th Street, Oakland (about two blocks from BART's Oakland City Center/12th Street station, between Franklin and Webster).

Opening reception (with refreshments): Thursday, June 2, 4:30 - 6:30 pm; 6 pm - awards presentation.

Visit the exhibition of the winning photos from this year's Fourth Annual Yodeler Photo Contest. The colors are beautiful, and the photo locations may give you some ideas for your next holiday. The colors and details are far superior to the reproductions possible in this Yodeler, and the exhibit will include all the winners.

If you have questions or want to help with next year's photo contest, contact Anne Seasons at: seamerci-at-yahoo.com or (510) 841-8008.

Contest judges

The Photo Contest Committee thanks our panel of three excellent judges:

• Don Lyon, owner of Close-Up Expeditions and frequent presenter of slide shows to the Bay Chapter's East Bay Dinners;
• Corey Keller, assistant curator of photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
• Andrea McLaughlin, owner of PhotoLab and former advertising manager and volunteer photographer for the Yodeler.

Photo Contest volunteers

The Yodeler would like thank the volunteers without whom this contest could never have happened. They have contributed many hours of brainstorming ideas, responding to e-mail requests, calling galleries, calling to solicit donations, arranging for judges, writing Yodeler articles, etc., etc., etc. And still there is more work to do! Thank you, Joan Davidson, Al Greening, Aphra Pia, Allen Stross, Wendy Wollish, Wade Sherwood, and Anne Seasons (the last two have served as co-chairs of the Contest Committee). Special thanks to Monica DuClaud for Photoshop work to ensure the best-possible color reproduction of photos in this Yodeler.

To join this elite group of volunteers in organizing next year's contest, call Anne Seasons at (510) 841-8008.