Images: Photo Contest Finalists
A lightning storm on June 8th spreads across the sky in Wauconda.
Sean Balke of Wauconda
The rays from a sunset flow across a field and onto a Queen Annes Lace.
Iris Cooley of Hawthorn Woods
A beautiful yellow bird stands among some bright, red flowers at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Sunday, July 22.
Mike Zarnek of Mount Prospect
Alex Tinaglia gives her cousin, Connor Solum, a wild ride on a jet ski during a July Fourth holiday in Princeton, WI.
Christine M. Solum of Arlington Heights
Seagull in flight at Morro Bay, CA on July 4th. Morro Bay, marked with its prominent volcanic rock, is home to more than 250 species of birds.
Sue Masaracchia-Roberts of Vernon Hills
I took this picture while at the Skytop Lodge in eastern Pennsylvania this past June. The scene makes me relax knowing how nice it would be to stop and sit for awhile.
Milton Hoskins of Hampshire
A squirrel picked a pear from a nearby tree and brought it to a Bartlett deck to eat.
L. Simmons of Bartlett
On the morning of July 9, 2012 I caught the sun braking up the fog over Lake McDonald in West Glacier, MT.
James F. Wadford of Gilberts
This was taken at the Osh Kosh, WI Experimental Aircraft Association Fly In for 2012. With the moon out in the late afternoon, I was able to juxtapose the plane and the moon together.
Larry Pearlman of Naperville
I was visiting my aunt in May, in Petersburg, AK, and took this shot of the sea lions while in my uncles boat.
Alicia Feuling of Lombard
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