Yodeler Photo Contest winning photos to be exhibited

Thursday, August 9 - Friday, September 7, Shadelands Campus Lobby Gallery, 111 North Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek.

Visit the exhibition of the winning photos from this year's Fifth 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 call (510) 295-4292.

Contest judges and volunteers

The "Nature in California" Contest Committee thanks our three excellent judges:

Bill Helsel, photographer specializing in nature, travel, and architecture;
Joseph R. Hearst, experienced judge for camera clubs;
Cha Levias, photographer and pro-accounts manager, Looking Glass Photo and Camera, Berkeley.

All entries are judged without any identifying information as to photographer.

Volunteer Contest Committee

The Yodeler would like to thank the volunteers without whom this contest could never have happened. They have contributed many hours of brainstorming, responding to e-mail requests, calling galleries, soliciting donations, arranging for judges, writing Yodeler articles, etc., etc., etc. And still there is more work to do! Thank you, Anne Seasons (Contest Committee chair), Allen Stross, Aphra Pia, Wade Sherwood, Alex Engel, and Al Greening. 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)295-4292.

"Nature in California" fifth annual Yodeler Photo Contest. This year's winners

Landscape

First place: Michael Brodsky, "Sunset on Tuolumne River".
Second place: Harlan Crowder, "Sequoia Dusk".
Third place: Louis Mattarelli, "Vernal Pool".
Honorable mention: Louis Mattarelli, "Salt Deposit".
Honorable mention: Joel Hagedorn, "A Dawn of Gold".

Water

First place: Sarah Harrington, "Bridal Veil Creek".
Second place: Harlan Crowder, "Rocks and Surf".
Third place: Joel Hagedorn, "Afternoon Mystic".
Honorable mention: Joel Hagedorn, "Sublime Cascade".
Honorable mention: Rosa Bazzani, "Arrangement in Green and Blue".

Flora

First place: Aphra Pia, "Desert Chicory".
Second place: Seth Novogrodsky, "Eschscholtzia californica #230".
Third place: Dale Mead, "Hummingbird Sage".
Honorable mention: Michael Slack, "Alpine Columbine in a Granite Crevice".

Nature With People

First place: Howard Ruffner, "A Day at the Ocean".
Second place: Joel Hagedorn, "Afternoon Walk on the Ridge".
Third place: Suzanne Barr, "Surfers' Morning".
Honorable mention: Tim Dallas, "Trail Runner".

Animals

First place: Greg Wilson, "American Kestrel Eating Small Bird".
Second place: Sarah Anne Bardwell, "Ladybug Picnic".
Third place: Mike Brodsky, "Gulls over Moss Landing".
Honorable mention: Greg Wilson, "Northern Harrier Preparing to Perch on Stump".

Patterns

First place: Al Greening, "Jeffrey Pine Bark".
Second place: Tim Dallas, "Snow on Golden Aspens".
Third place: Michael Arent, "Root Wrap".
Honorable mention: Harlan Crowder, "Lichen".
Honorable mention: Howard Ruffner, "Pattern Upon Patterns".

Prize donors

We thank the following photography-related businesses for their generous donations of prizes for this year's contest winners:

Adolph Gasser Inc. Photography (San Francisco)
The Blow Up Lab (San Francisco)
Bay Photo Lab (Santa Cruz)
Bosko's Frames (Rockridge in Oakland)
Cantoo, Inc. (Berkeley)
Gamma Photographic Lab, (San Francisco)
In Color, (San Francisco)
Light Waves Imaging (Berkeley)
Light Room (Berkeley)
Looking Glass Photo & Camera (Berkeley)
New Lab (San Francisco)
PhotoLab (Berkeley)
Pictopia (Emeryville)
Ritz Camera (Rockridge in Oakland)
Sarber's Cameras (Montclair in Oakland)
Storey Picture Framing (Berkeley)