See the winning images of our weekly photo contest
Each week you submit your favorite photo. We pick the best of the bunch and select the finalists. Here are the finalists for the week of January 4.
An old gray barn in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin with brightly painted red doors stand out against the newly fallen snow in March 2014.
Sheila O'Gara of Buffalo Grove
Rain clouds gather around a barn as it stands in deterioration in January of 2013 in Waukegan. One side wall has since collapsed and soon will be completely gone.
​Butch Law of Des Plaines
A thunderous cloud forms over a Lake Zurich backyard last summer.
Kelly Gross of Lake Zurich
A Fiji palm at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan last month.
Ken Juranek of Des Plaines
Birds flutter around a Libertyville bird feeder during the cold winter in December 28.
Jim Huskey of Libertyville
The moon shines through the clouds on a snowy winter night.
Ed Kabot of Vernon Hills
A short time ago in a Christmas tree far, far away, a spaceship activates hyperdrive for a trip from Planet Snowman into hyperspace. In the spirit of Christmas (and Star Wars), I took this photo of a spaceship ornament in our tree with a 1.3 second exposure @f4, iso 100, while turning the zoom on the lens, to create this colorful "out of this world shot."
Randy Link of Winfield
This past August, we took a fun trip to the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe. I took a photo of this playful youngster who was enjoying the view through a "porthole" in the English Walled Garden.
Mike Weimer of St. Charles
I took this photo of my garden frogs which sort of reminded me of how my husband and I hunker down in the wintertime."
Lora Windsor of St. Charles
My wife loves reading Harry Potter and I made this photograph as a surprise for her.I used all of her Harry Potter books and lit them using candles suspended with wire to give the illusion that the candlesticks were floating.
Curt Sriver, of Elgin
This was taken with my telephone at the Naperville lake walk next to the police and Fire Departments.
JIm Polites of Naperville
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