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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 December 29.

The photo of this webmaster was taken in the summer in the field behind our house in Huntley. Bob Williams of Huntley
The snow covers the landscape on the road to Northport Car Ferry near Washington Island in Gills Rock, Wisconsin on March, 2012. Sheila O'Gara of Buffalo Grove
A gorilla appears deep in thought at Lincoln Park Zoo in the Regenstein Center for African Apes. So humanlike. his pose like that of the sculpture, "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin. Deb Marak of Arlington Heights
@Biz Ledger on the record header:Fred Share of Arlington HeightsA hummingbird last summer at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe appears in suspended animation.
@Biz Ledger on the record header:Joan Farrell of Island LakeA sandhill crane, separated from its flock, made a home for itself at Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington for a couple of months before leaving.
@Biz Ledger on the record header:Deanne Stacey of WaucondaAn evening view of the Cathédrale St. Etienne in Bourges, France during October 2014.
@Biz Ledger on the record header:James Paskiewicz of AlgonquinClose Encounters of the Elk Kind. I took this photo in the fall when we traveled to Rocky Mountain National Park to take in the bugling of the elk and yellowing of the aspens. This fella was just as curious about us as we were about him.
@Biz Ledger on the record header:Matthew Snyder of Elgin.I took this photo of lights on a Christmas tree.
@Biz Ledger on the record header:Debra Hruby, of WheatonLight is my favorite photography subject. This photo was taken in my kitchen where a rainbow, created by a prism on my windowsill, shone through the spray of water from the faucet.
@Biz Ledger on the record header:Glen Parzygnat, of LombardTwo bucks at Cricket Creek.
@Biz Ledger on the record header:Angela Cichosz, of Carol StreamI used a macro lens to photograph a candy cane refracted in water droplets. I used an eyedropper from my old high school biology kit along with an old pair of eyeglasses for the water drops. I used a car dealer's brochure for the green background and strategically placed the candy cane on top of the green part of the brochure.
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