Daily Herald photo contest winners for December 2024
The winning entries in the Daily Herald’s amateur photo contest for December capture life's joyful and mysterious moments.
Taking top honors is Robbie Livingston’s fantastic photo capturing the expressions of joy from young football fans after a touchdown. The high school student from Wheaton writes, “This picture I selected has really stuck with me. I think that it encompasses the emotion of admiration really well, seeing the younger boys cheering on #16 after he scored a touchdown.”
Coming in second is Sue Kowall’s “Puzzle Perfect” photo of the historic Bryggen wharf along the shore of Vågen harbor in Bergen, Norway. These historic buildings are on the UNESCO list for World Cultural Heritage sites. The Hoffman Estates resident writes, “Ironically, we put together a thousand piece puzzle of this exact same view last winter. It was fun to make the puzzle come alive.”
David Ross’s otherworldly photo of the historic Inca stronghold nestled in the Peruvian mountains takes third. The Gurnee resident writes, “Machu Picchu is very mysterious, and thousands of pictures are taken there, but I took this one in monochrome because it seemed to make it even more mysterious.”
In fourth place, Matthew Davis of Elgin captures the chilly beauty of a dormant oak tree tracing an intricate design across the moonlit sky. He writes, “A nighttime walk through St. Charles allowed me to capture this shot of the moon peeking through the oak tree limbs.”
An honorable mention goes to Randy Link of Warrenville for his striking photo of a fox outside his house. He writes, “So I went down to the rec room where I was almost even with the ground level. It enabled me to get an ‘eye to eye’ shot of the fox while he was hunting its next meal. My wife said that ‘I outfoxed the fox.’”
Contest rules
The Daily Herald invites readers to submit their own photos to our “Your Images” amateur photo contest.
Once a month, we showcase entries, which feature one first-place winner and three runners-up. The contest is open to everyone in the Daily Herald readership area.
• To submit a photo of your own for consideration, email it in .jpg format at highest quality possible to yourimages@dailyherald.com.
• Include your name, mailing address and phone number, plus a detailed description of your photo. Remember to include what you like about it.
• One photo a week per photographer, but enter as many weeks as you’d like.
• First-place winners will receive prizes alternating between The Great Frame Up in Schaumburg and PJ’s Camera in Glen Ellyn.