Images: The Lake County monthly photo winners from 2015
Every week the Daily Herald welcomes amateur photographers from across Lake County to submit their favorite pictures with a chance for their work to be published in the newspaper.
At the end of the month, Daily Herald photographers judge the entries and choose the best picture from the weekly winners.
All of the monthly Lake amateur photo contest winners from 2015 are part of this gallery. The collection includes beautiful landscapes, artistic visuals and tender moments caught in photographs.
The sun shines through the trees creating rays of light in the morning fog in September 2013.
Charles Spencer of Mundelein
Lightning strikes past a tree on the night of August 2, the same storm that would later produce a tornado that would hit in Grayslake.
Max Goldberg of Grayslake
Through a steamy bathroom window in Libertyville is a landscape of fresh snow on a backyard pine.
Julie Bond of Libertyville
Taylor Reckert does a handstand above the Grand Canyon in Arizona in January 2015 during a cross-country road trip from Illinois to California.
Taylor Reckert of Mundelein
Ice formations on a large pond in Grant Woods Forest Preserve in Ingleside on December 29.
Marty Krogh of Ingleside
A little girl bathes in the hot springs in December of 2010 at Strawberry Park Hot Springs outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Gary Edwards of Round Lake Beach
Kayaks wait to make their way from Bearskin Neck around Cape Ann in Rockport, Mass. in June of 2012.
Kelley Dorner of Grayslake
A glass blower puts heat to an art piece at a Lake County glass studio in November 2013.
Karen Adams-Taylor of Antioch
A jumble of stacked boulders began underground eons ago as a result of volcanic activity at Joshua Tree National Park, east of Los Angeles, California last month.
Lynne Solway of Buffalo Grove
A woman stretches at Joffre Lakes Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada last summer.
Bill Krumm of Libertyville
A rainbow forms over a Deer Park neighborhood last month after a rainstorm.
David Block of Deer Park
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