Images: Photo Contest Finalists
Each week you submit your favorite photo. We pick the best of them and select the finalists. Here are the finalists for the week of September 15.
A storm cloud over Pistakee Lake in Fox Lake precedes a tornado warning on May 22nd.
Greg Harutunian of Richmond
Nick Tinaglia hot dogs it on a river in Princeton, Wis. over Labor Day weekend. While preparing himself to barefoot ski, he decided to strike a "no hands" pose. Tinaglia held his knees moving at 35 mph before letting go.
Christine M. Solum of Arlington Heights
Sunset at Busse Woods as viewed through a reflection on a car.
Deb Marak of Arlington Heights
This picture was taken in my friend's yard in West Chicago at night with the lights illuminating the tree leaf.
Susan Cox of West Chicago
At a car show last summer my eye and camera were drawn to this shiny chrome wheel with its beautiful reflections. I saw many reflections, some of which were colors of the other cars, the blue sky, the green grass and the sun. I turned this 90 degrees and it looked like a little chrome man walking.
Randy Link of Winfield
This photo is of Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. I took this photo this past July during our vacation to Colorado.
Scott Morlock of Wheaton
I took this photograph at one of the tulip gardens at Cantigny this past spring. I was able to get this picture just before the wild turkeys came strolling by.
Milton Hoskins of Hampshire
A mother bird in flight feeds her nesting chick on the Galápagos Islands in July of2011.
Barbara Raff of Long Grove
Amish men outside Chicago's Union Station enjoy the view of the Chicago River in June of 2013.
Steve Murray of Hawthorn Woods
This summer we visited Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate while we were there, but I got this great photo of my husband Jim, and my sons Sean and Matt.
Becky Johnston of Geneva
Once the clouds cooperated, I was able to get this shot of the Harvest Moon as it rose over a barn in Kane County.
Bob Williams of Huntley
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