Images: Photo Contest Finalists
A bighorn ram glances up while grazing last spring in Yellowstone National Park.
Debra Ferguson of Kildeer
A butterfly lands on an orange flower in Volo Bog State Natural Area.
Viveca Joy Skyles of Lakemoor
Beautiful fall colors along a creek near Marquette, MI in September.
Cindy Seng of Libertyville
Amy Lee and her stunt partner, Sean, doing a cupie while their spotter, Oz, looks on during the 4th quarter of the Purdue/Iowa game. They are members of the Iowa Spirit Squad.
Susie Lee of Wheeling
A squirrel couldnt stay away from a bag that was lying on the ground in Zion National Park this past July.
Jeanne Garrett of Arlington Heights
A female ruby-throated hummingbird cruising through the hostas in a garden in western Illinois in July of this year.
Bob Esbensen of Palatine
This photo of our cat Shea is about a lifestyle we humans wish we had. Sleep, eat and be pampered.
Tony Pocewicz of Carpentersville
While in California I was lucky enough to get a shot of these Cattle Egrets sitting a tree. It looked like there were just sitting there watching the world go by below them.
Bob Williams of Huntley
This photo was taken earlier this fall looking through the window of an old barn in rural Rutland Township. It looks like the end of the season for the trees and the barn.
Jan Siers of Gilberts
This is outside Fenton High School in Bensenville during an early let out day. The fog was unusually thick.
Cynthia Huntowski of Bensenville
This is Naperville´s covered bridge and the DuPage River taken with an ultrawide angle lens and a 30 second exposure which was long enough to capture the flow of the water. I really liked the night effects, the winter mood and the isolation of normally packed downtown Naperville.
Larry Pearlman of Naperville
This was taken at Union Station in Chicago on the day before Thanksgiving, the busiest travel day for Amtrak. The shots show off the classic architecture of the building.
Larry Pearlman of Naperville
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