Images: See the winning entries 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 March 16.
Sandhill cranes ascend while the moon lowered into the sky as they migrate to their summer home in Canada and other northern places passing through Kearney, Nebraska last year.
Jeanne Garrett of Arlington Heights
A coconut tree at Playa de Ropa, Mexico on January 5.
Cindy Madson of Mundelein
I took this photo when my wife and I visited the Desert Museum just outside Tucson late February where we attended the live raptor demonstration. Among these graceful and powerful birds was a family group of Harris hawks, two of the group are pictured.
Dainiel Schlack of South Elgin
I was on my daily walk when I saw these two white horses at feeding time. They looked like a perfect mirror image. They were only in this position for a few seconds so I was lucky to get the photograph.
Todd A. Sherlock, from Downers Grove
This is a water droplet just before releasing from its icicle. The light pattern inside is from a ring light I attached to the front of my lens.
Dori Eldridge, from Naperville
A deer stares out in a Glenview backyard on a cold January morning.
Andrew McCarthy of Glenview
A sea gull enjoys an eerie sunset on December 6 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
Mike Selgrad of Des Plaines
I took this picture of the Assateague Light last year on Assateague Island which is a barrier island off Virginia's coast. It looks just like it did when I first saw it in 1986. It's weathered several hurricanes in that span of time, but seems to have come through unscathed.
Milton Hoskins of Hampshire
The beautiful, complementary colors---yellow and purple---of these emerging crocus flowers attracted my attention when I took this photo. I set the flowers on our kitchen table, and used sidelight from a nearby patio door to bring out the wonderful translucence of the petals.
Mike Weimer of St. Charles
This Carolina Wren was hopping along the DuPage River at the Morton Arboretum. It was close enough to the water that I was able to get a photo with his reflection.
Bonnie Graham, of Lombard,
A tethered hot air balloon ride at the San Diego Wildlife Zoo five years ago.
Joan Farrell of Island Lake
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