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Winners of the Norman Tree Foundation's second annual photo contest were announced Dec. 1.
The contest drew entrants from Norman to Clinton to Oklahoma City.
Winning photographs were required to be taken in Oklahoma and were judged by Charles Rushton, Bob Goins and Victor Koshkin-Youritzin, all of Norman. Joe Sparks and Phyllis Melton Dowling chaired the event.
The contest featured $1,200 in prizes and was in conjunction with the Norman Gallery Association's Dec. 1 Holiday Art Walk. Entries were on display Dec. 1-7 at Arvest Bank, Main Street and Peters Avenue.
Winners were:
Amateur black-and-white: first, John Eagleston, "Once a Place of Dreams"; second, Shyloh Cooper, "Stretching"; third, Janet Sherry, "Gingko Biloba in the Rain."
Amateur color: first, Janet Sherry, "Urban Forest in Winter"; second, Julie Kowalski, "Oklahoma Moonrise"; and John Wall, Tree of Gold.
Professional black-and-white: first, Rick Felty, "No Place Like Home"; second, Debra Van Swearingen, "Franklin Farm"; third, Theresa Bragg, "Quartz Mountain Serendipity."
Professional color: first, Drake Matney, "The Overseer"; second, Drake Matney, Natura Non Constrictatur"; third, Cindy Jain, Fletcher Magnolia.
Winning photographs are on display on the Transcript Web site at www.normantranscript.com.
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