Images: Photo Contest Finalists
I took this photo of a male oriole outside our kitchen window. We enjoy their songs in the spring and like to attract them with orange halves.
Amy Gasser of Elgin
One night I zoomed in on the sky, the white dot on top was the moon in closeup! So I took a picture of a picture.
Matthew Snyder of Elgin
A Red-breasted Merganser takes off from the shore at Lake Arlington.
Fred Share of Arlington Heights
An andirondack chair sits empty on a pier in Ephraim, Wisconsin on a cold and extremely foggy Monday morning on May 12.
Sheila O'Gara of Buffalo Grove
This photo was taken near The Lincoln Park Zoo using a Nikon DSLR and then processed with an iPad app called Snap Speed.
Sean Dawoodi from Carol Stream
Attached is a picture I took in April at the Keukenhof Gardens in Holland. The Gardens are billed as the most beautiful spring gardens in the world and it is no exaggeration! The picture was taken with a Canon SX40.
Marty Chlapecka from Bloomingdale
This photo was taken at Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois. It's late afternoon and the sun is really magnifying the colors of the 1,000's of tulips. Crouching down is necessary to get an interesting foreground while still capturing the endless sea of colors. It also helps to crop and frame the photo to emphasize the area in focus, as well as what's not.
Larry Pearlman from Naperville
Orange roses in Milwaukee make up a graduation bouquet.
Jean-Marie Geoffroy of Grayslake
A Great Blue Heron searches for breakfast in a pond in Hilton Head, South Carolina on March 1.
Barbara Mix of Mundelein
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