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 October 27.
An artistic illusion looking upward at the center of The Bean sculpture in Chicago last month.
Iris Cooley of Hawthorn Woods
Fall colors line the road into Devil's Lake State Park in Baraboo, Wisconsin on Sunday morning, October 19th, lined by towering oaks and maples. A local artist referred to it as simply "The Road In."
Dave Carpenter of Grayslake
A moon lit lagoon in Palma De Mallorca, Spain last September.
Tom Jarosinski of Lake Zurich
Jim Inman, 55, Arlington Heights, attacks the 51st of 59 grueling obstacles during the Obstacle Course Racing 2014 World Championships in Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, October 25. Inman finished 10th in his age group and 143rd overall. OCR World Championship participants ran almost nine miles with a total elevation change of more than 3,500 feet, and hurdled 59 obstacles.
Karen Stoychoff Inman of Arlington Heights
Falling leaves cover the path to the Red Oak Nature Center in Aurora as a grandfather and his grandson approach to view the animals inside on October 18.
Doris Krandel of Palatine
This is a photo of a female deer on Washington Island, Wisconsin taken over the weekend.
Maggie Newlin of Naperville
I took this picture near the west entrance of Badlands National Park. My wife and I come out here every year, and the sunsets never fail to impress.
Milton Hoskins of Hampshire
While enjoying a perfect August day this past summer walking along the Lincoln Park Zoo Nature Boardwalk in Chicago, I paused to notice this beautiful butterfly resting on top a coneflower.
Susan Birr of Carpentersville
I call this "feathers in the wind". These are ornamental grasses blowing in the wind by the Fox River in West Dundee one day in October.
Allison M. Kramer of Carpentersville
Sunday, Oct 26, was a nice day to bike along the Fox River. Took this picture of the windmill at the Fabyan Forest Preserve with reflection on the Fox River.
Eugene Bordelon of Warrenville
I took this photo of a praying mantis at Lyman Woods in Downers Grove. When it heard the shutter of my camera, it would look over at me and then continue on. Very strange indeed. I wonder what it was thinking?
Todd A. Sherlock of Downers Grove
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