FIRST PLACE, Adult division: Steve Boleski traveled to Alaska in November to photograph “The Challenge.”
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SECOND PLACE, Adult division: Chad Phillips thought the combination of the great sunset and sunflowers in “Golden Road” was wonderfully symbolic of Kansas.
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THIRD PLACE, Adult division: Robert Herrington almost couldn’t believe his fortune when this male painted bunting landed on an old fence near Derby. He calls the photo “Painted Bunting Song.”
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FIRST PLACE, Youth division: Jacob Penner isn’t sure if this diamondback water snake swallowed this bullhead, but knew the snake was in for some “Heavy Lifting.”
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SECOND PLACE, Youth division: Mayce Sharon grabbed her camera when a partially albino barred owl landed on a neighbor’s fence a few weeks ago in Overland Park.
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THIRD PLACE, Youth division: “Going to the Sun” was Kendall Gaeddert’s favorite from a great day he had at Glacier National Park last summer.
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Christina Base headed out when a friend sent her a text about an on-going “Sunset” near Halstead.
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The fine detail in this leaf near a creek in North Newton drew Mark Kreider’s attention and turned into “Leaf on the Forest Floor.”
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“Buck Fight” was photographed after these deer dropped their antlers several years ago by David Birmingham.
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Matt Birch got this shot last August. It’s called Reno County Show.
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Chad Wittenberg left his home near El Dorado one evening last summer determined to find a nice photograph. He found the setting for “Show Stopper.”
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Josh Belisle got up at 4:30 a.m. to scout out a place to take a sunrise photo in North Carolina last summer and get “The Fishing Pier at Sunrise.”
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Scott Branine headed to western Kansas on a photography trip last summer and got “Monument Rocks” in Gove County.
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On a vacation to Table Rock Lake, Rhonda Pendergraft waited until the boat drifted into the sun’s glare to take “Life is Good.”
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“Osprey with Catch of the Day” was taken last month in Florida by Daniel Stoehr.
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Donald Tan’s “Cheney Lake Owl” is one of only a few shots he got off a snowy owl this winter.
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A series of waterfalls below the dam at Chase State Fishing Lake is where Terry Moore got “Falls in Chase County” last spring.
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A female bobcat raising a litter in some irrigation pipe near Pawnee Rock is where Jay Miller got “Bobcat Kitten.”
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Brian Timm said he enjoyed watching a litter of fox kits play and grow up as much as taking “Wichita Kits.”
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Duck hunter Jory Konrade is the subject for Kevin Case’s “The Caller,” taken on a late December duck hunt on the Smoky Hill River.
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