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Images: The monthly winners of the amateur photo contest for Lake

A photo collection of the winners of the Lake County amateur photo contest for the year 2017. Local photographers from across Lake County submitted pictures each week and the following pictures were chosen to be the best of the month. The photography staff would like to thank everyone who entered and to those who won.

On a misty night in Chicago, the beacon light warns ships on Lake Michigan traveling in the dark night that land is nearby. James Kristof of Lake Barrington
A very clear view of the Milky Way in the night sky near Bridgeport, Calif. in October 2016. The picture was captured using a Nikon D750 and a 24 mm lens with a 20 second exposure. Mike Stone of Round Lake Beach
A view from the back of a camel during a trip to a camp in Erg Chebbi, part of the Saharan Desert, in Morocco in October 2015. Mark Baron of Gurnee
A penguin emerges out of the ocean at Antarctica in 2016. Don Bielinski of Hawthorn Woods
A photographer takes a picture of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, Calif. in October 2016. El Capitan rises approximately 3000 ft above the valley floor and this gives a good perspective of its immense size. Mike Stone of Round Lake Beach
Grant High School athlete Josh Polark flies over a hurdle in the 440 meter high hurdle relay on April 13 at the Patriot Relays at Stevenson High School. The team was victorious in the 12-team field. Tom Maple of Ingleside
Pamela Hutmacher Curtis of LibertyvilleA boat sits on a still lake as the sun rises over Lake Thompson near Rhinelander, Wis.
Two nighttime adventurers look at the Milky Way on August 11 in Merrimack County, NH on top of Mount Kearsarge. Gray Dragin of Antioch
A group of L-39 Albatross jets fly in formation and bank to the left after an aerial display over Waukegan National Airport on September 9th. Mike Stone of Round Lake Beach
A fisherman is caught in the reflection of the sunset over Lake Zurich on June 3rd. Cindy Spudich from Lake Zurich
A hiker walks through a stream in the narrows of the Virgin River in Zion National Park during July of 2016. Tony Filippo of Green Oaks
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