***Announcing the Winners of the July Photo Contest: "Public Transportation, Land, Sea, or Air"***
There were so many good pictures submitted.
Here are the winners of our July 2025 seasonal contest. The theme is "Public Transportation, Land, Sea, or Air"
1. Wilderness Run By Grumpy Old Guy
2. Venice Transit Authority By bif
3. Nickel Plate Road 765 on the point of the "Erie Limited" passenger train, Buffalo, NY By Hiawatha Pete
Grumpy wins!!!!!
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All the photos were great. It was hard to choose one.
And congratulations, my dear Eko, on a contest well run!
Now they're stuck! They'll be doing it again.
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Thank you all for your support, and congrats to Eko for running a great contest. My heartiest congratulations to bif and Hiawatha Pete.
And now a few words about my photo. I shot this in 2016 during a nine thousand mile round trip from Los Angeles to Homer, Alaska via the Alaska Highway. The photo was taken along Turnagain Arm, south of Anchorage, on the way to the Kenai Peninsula. It's called Turnagain Arm because, when Captain Cook was exploring there, the water kept getting more and more shallow, and he had to turn "again and again" to avoid running aground. I heard the train coming in the distance and timed the shot to catch the headlights straight on just as it was coming around the bend.
Now I would like your opinion. This is the original image that I shot that day, and it's still one of my favorites. I think it truly portrays the magnificence that is our forty ninth state. However, it's a very wide photograph, and the train is but a tiny speck, which is what I wanted to portray. I know that many of us view the contest entries and vote on our phones, and I didn't think this version of it would work when viewed on a cellphone .I quickly cropped it into a smaller, vertical format to give it impact on both a computer and a phone. What do you think? Did I do the right thing?
Thanks again for your support. I'm taking suggestions for the theme for our next contest.
This is the original image.
For comparison, here is the version that I entered.
they were all so good thank you to everyone who entered
Thanks for hosting the contest, Eko!
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