Images: Photo Contest Finalists
A spider hangs from a window during a storm in Chicago last July, with the John Hancock building in the distance.
Lianna Greene of Buffalo Grove
A fox sits along the road at the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park in September of 2010.
Bob Esbensen of Palatine
Jeanne Garrett of Arlington HeightsFor the second year, the Kaloustian participate in the Santa 5k race recently in Arlington Heights. They walked about a mile of the 5k with a police cruiser following behind.
A hot air balloon floats across Napa Valley last August during a beautiful sunrise.
Les LaFollette of Libertyville
Dairy cows huddle together at Voegeli Brown Swiss Dairy Farm in New Glarus, Wiscons that has been managed by the Voegelis since 1848.
Curt Innes of Gurnee
This is a photo featuring a large nightcrawler worm wiggling around on the driveway back in the end of September. I used an extreme macro lens handheld with the cameras built-in automatic pop-up flash. The camera was a Canon EOS Rebel XT and the lens was the Canon MP-E 65 mm 1-5x macro lens.
Angela Cichosz of Carol Stream
This was taken overlooking the Gulf of Mexico from a beach on Longboat Key, FL. in February of thisyear. The following two days were exceptionally clear and, although not seen here, people on Sanibel Island to the south saw the very rare Green Flash on two successive sunsets.
Gib Van Dine of West Chicago
This was taken in Calgary, AB at a local skate park. I was experimenting with the higher speed shutter and ISO on my camera to freeze as much of the action as possible while still maintaining as much depth of field. I caught this biker doing a series of great stunts and happened to freeze him as his bike and body were off the ground. I like the colors and positioning of the subject.
Laurence Pearlman of Naperville
It was early in the early fall when I found this inky-top mushroom in my backyard and and I wanted to capture its beauty before it was eaten by an animal passing by. The next day it was gone, bitten down to its base, showing how fleeting beauty can be.
Rachel Brown of St. Charles
As the sun was rising Saturday morning, the moon in lunar eclipse was setting west of Elburn.
Mike Tillmans of St. Charles
A female ruby throated hummingbird sits quietly perched for a moment at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.
Susan Birr of Carpentersville
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