1 st PLACE Fire and Ice, Pam Dorner " A sandhill crane does his best dragon impersonation a cold January morning in central New Mexico. I spent the first months of the year hoping to photograph…
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1 st PLACE Bluff Springs, Richard Larsson "It was a very cold, late-night drive into the forest to photograph the frozen waterfall under the midnight stars. On this February evening, temperatures were…
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1 st PLACE Glowing Grace , Shirley Estes "The photo Glowing Grace is of my 20-foot tepee on our property in Ruidoso. This photo was taken when my husband and I went out to watch the blue moon rise on…
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1 st PLACE White Sands , Richard Larsson (above) " It was an about-mile hike into the park, capturing the curve of a wind-swept dune hidden amidst a sea of gypsum sand. " —Richard Larsson 2 nd PLACE Old…
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1 st PLACE Within Reach , Chanel Flores (above) “My style of photography is candid, and I hope to capture the real emotions of my subject. After an hour’s shoot with the boy and his mom, we came across…
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1 st PLACE Hard Days Ride , Jim Shepka (above) "I was fortunate to be at the stables of the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort when a group of staff and volunteers returned from an evening ride. It’s a rare…
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GRAND PRIZE WINNER Golden Feather , Pam Dorner "After watching a great-horned owl family near home, I became familiar with their hunting habits. The father owl loved to hunt for bugs on woodpiles at…
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JIM SHEPKA HAS NEW MEXICO’S FILM INDUSTRY to thank for much of his recent work. A former Marine who first came to the Land of Enchantment to visit his brother in the 1980s, Shepka retired to Rio…
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PAM DORNER HAS ALWAYS ENJOYED the outdoors, from days spent playing in the creek near her childhood home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to walking the Río Grande bosque across from her house…
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THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE One People’s Choice winner will be awarded to the photograph that receives the most votes online. The winning photo will be published in the January/February 2024 issue, available…
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