"Capture the Wonder" Photo Contest
New Contest Begins August 16, 2011 through Ocotober 15, 2011
YOU Vote for the best photo that truly Captures the Wonder!
Voting occurs after each contest submittal period and runs for one month.
The Sedona Capture the Wonder Photo Contest just got bigger and better with a new website, cash prizes, voting by the public, and an opportunity for each entry to help support Keep Sedona Beautiful's mission to Preserve the Wonder™ of Sedona. Visit www.sedonacapturethewonder.org now to register and enter your photos that capture the large, the small ... the Wonder ... of this magnificent red rock country. Read the Terms and General Rules of the contest.
Contest 1 June 15-August 15, 2011
First Place Professional
Michael Nelson
"Serenity"
Sedona Place Professional
Michael Nelson
"Liquidity"
Third Place Professional
Wayne Johnson
"Agaves Three"
First Place Amateur
Katie Love
"Where I Live"
Second Place Amateur
Kristin Monday
"After the Storm"
Third Place Amateur
Katie Love
"Milk of Beatitude"
2009-10 Winners Gallery • 2009 All Entries
Since its inception in 1972 KSB has been dedicated to “preserving the wonder” of Sedona. Their education and advocacy activities and goals range from land preservation to litter lifting. The aim of the contest is to “Capture the Wonder” of this Red Rock region. KSB photo contest member and board President, Stephen DeVol notes, “ What better way to “preserve the wonder’ than to capture it in a photograph?”
For the 2008 contest, photos were professionally judged in three divisions: Professional, Amateur, and Junior for those under age 15. Additionaly, in 2008, Keep Sedona Beautiful added a new category in all three divisions: “Capture the Wonder at Night,” focusing on the unique beauty of Sedona illuminated by the stars and moon. The competition was open to everyone except members of the Keep Sedona Beautiful Board, the contest committee, the judging panel or their families.
The contest rules were slightly modified for the 2009 contest. The Junior division was dropped and the "Capture the Wonder by Night" was folded into the color or black and white categories for both amateur and profeesional. So, for 2009, there are 2 divisions: Amateur and Professional. Within those 2 categories are found both color and black and white. Images were judged on creativity, technique and their relevance to the contest theme, “Capture the Wonder”.
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2008 Winner's Gallery • 2008 All Entries
To further its theme of “Preserving the Wonder of Sedona,” Keep Sedona Beautiful Inc. introduced a photo contest for 2007. The second annual 2008 entry photos were again judged on creativity and their relevance to the contest theme, “Capture the Wonder” of this Red Rock region.
If one should ask “What is the wonder” of this area; the entrants’ photos will help to define it – natural and scenic, perhaps partly man-made, wonders great or small.
Photos were professionally judged in three divisions: professional, amateur, and children in grades K-8. The competition was open to everyone except members of the KSB Board, the contest committee, the judging panel or their families.
| AWARD | TITLE | RECEIPENT NAME | ||
| 1st place Amateur | Hidden Window | Michael Nelson | ||
| 2nd place Amateur | Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder | John Parker | ||
| 3rd place Amateur | West Fork Oak Creek | Jeff Goward | ||
| Honorable Mention Amateur | Sedona Panorama | Dylan Sills | ||
| Honorable Mention Amateur | Rainy Day | David Griggs | ||
| B/W Amateur | Old West | John Scott | ||
| Amateur night | Moon Shadows | Cherie Toliver | ||
| 1st place Professional | Cathedral in the Snow | Mel Copen | ||
| 2nd place Professional | Sunrise-First Day Out | Sharen Lee Harris | ||
| 3rd place Professional | Double Rainbow Over Uptown Sedona | Jerry Buley | ||
| Honorable Mention Professional | Cliff Snow | Loren Haury | ||
| Honorable Mention Professional | Autumn | Garrett Dauphars | ||
| B/W Professional | Oak Creek with Cathedral Rock | Jon Pelletier | ||
| Professional night | Lightning Wild Horse mesa | Bob Coates | ||
| BEST OF SHOW | Hidden Window | Michael Nelson |
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2007 Winner's Gallery • All 2007 Entries
 "Mystical Sedona" by Mike Koopsen Best of Show and 1st Place Professional Div. |
To further its theme of “Preserving the Wonder of Sedona,” Keep Sedona Beautiful Inc. introduced a photo contest for 2007. The photos were judged on creativity and their relevance to the contest theme, “Capture the Wonder” of this Red Rock region.
If one should ask “What is the wonder” of this area; the entrants’ photos will help to define it – natural and scenic, perhaps partly man-made, wonders great or small.
Photos were professionally judged in three divisions: professional, amateur, and children in grades K-8. The competition was open to everyone except members of the KSB Board, the contest committee, the judging panel or their families.
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