See the winning images from our weekly photo contest
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 April, 27.
Iowa's coach Ryan Hass appears to be giving his 18-month-old daughter, Katelyn, a pep talk on the pitcher's mound between games at the Iowa State University Club Softball tournament in Ames, Iowa on April 18.
Christine M. Solum of Arlington Heights
This photo was taken in our yard of one of the various colored tulips that were planted last fall.
Dave Hoffrage, from Lombard
Sunday April 26 was a beautiful day perfect for enjoying all the beautiful flowers.
Juday Monaco, from Glendale Heights
These photos of acres and acres of tulip blooms were taken in early April in Washington state's Skagit County. Wherever the eye could see, the land was filled with stripes of these colorful blooms. In this photo I was particularly drawn to the contrasting highflying kite that echoed the colors below. I thought I could not ever see anything quite so magnificent as these masses of tulips.
Rebecca Anderson, from Glen Ellyn
A glass blower puts heat to an art piece at a Lake County glass studio in November 2013.
Karen Adams-Taylor of Antioch
Waves splash against South Haven Pierhead lighthouse in South Haven, Michigan in the fall of 2012.
Diana Laufer of Grayslake
The Northern Lights on March 23 in Fairbanks, Alaska, around 1:15 a.m. If one looks closely, a shooting star is present also!
Bob Driscoll of Arlington Heights
Yellow umbrellas appear to be waiting for rain at the spring garden show at the Garfield Park Conservatory a few weeks ago.
Jeanne Garrett of Arlington Heights
My wife and I vacationed on Sanibel Island for several days this past March. At low tide we watched shorebirds of all kinds look for food. In this photo, a white egret flies along the water's edge in search of a meal above watchful seagulls and terns.
Mike Weimer of St. Charles
I took this photo at the Klehm Arboretum in Rockford on April 18th. Daffodils are a welcome sight each spring making us finally believe that winter is over. How often do we look at them closely?
Milton Hoskins of Hampshire
I took this photo and titled it Light Beams In Rural Kane County.
Keith Leman of Crystal Lake
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