2012 Winter Travel Photo Contest
2012 Winter Travel Photo Contest
The voting has closed for our Winter Travel Photo Contest. But be sure to check out our finalists gallery, as well as the Best of the Rest gallery - at the bottom of the page - featuring all the great photos entered in the contest.
The voting has closed for our Winter Travel Photo Contest. But be sure to check out our finalists gallery, as well as the Best of the Rest gallery - at the bottom of the page - featuring all the great photos entered in the contest.
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VOTING HAS CLOSED.
But be sure to check out all the contest entries by clicking below.
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Marc Albuck of Richboro: Dress rehearsal at Washington Crossing Historic Park, Dec. 11, for the annual Delaware River crossing.
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Jack Hoopes, Berwyn: Graceann Hoopes, the photographer’s wife, zip-lines in the “upside down and backward” position at Witch’s Rock, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in December.
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Linda Tschoepe of North Wales: One of the many beautiful carriage roads at Eagle Lake in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Tschoepe and her husband spent time there after Christmas.
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Jennifer Williams, Voorhees: Hard at work on frozen Tenaya Lake in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada.
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Rachel Birk, Richboro: Solo flute, Dec. 25, on a mother-daughter hike in the red rocks of Sedona, Ariz., during a family vacation.
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Geri DiBiase, Lewes, Del.: Taken in Harwich, Cape Cod, Mass., on Christmas Day. Overlooking Mill Pond after a slight dusting of snow.
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Chris Gilbert, Harleysville: Bryce Canyon, Utah, Ponderosa Point, early
afternoon on Dec. 27, 2011. A favorite view, with its variety of textures.
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Meghan E. Muller: It snowed in October in Pennsylvania, but it was warm enough in Low Country South Carolina for a Thanksgiving walk on the beach. This picture is of my son, Chase, 2, taken on Hilton Head Island.
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![Dottie Graham of Exton captured her husband in her entry. "It was taken at Ricketts Glen State Park, Benton, Pa. [near Bloomsburg], in early August. It shows my husband, Jim Graham, jumping through Sheldon Reynolds Falls, one of the many beautiful waterfalls along the Falls Trail in the state park."](http://media.philly.com/images/395*262/graham_rickettsglenfalls.jpg)
Dottie Graham of Exton captured her husband in her entry. "It was taken at Ricketts Glen State Park, Benton, Pa. [near Bloomsburg], in early August. It shows my husband, Jim Graham, jumping through Sheldon Reynolds Falls, one of the many beautiful waterfalls along the Falls Trail in the state park."
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Tom McMahon of Pittsgrove, N.J., photographed the McMahon daughters, Allison (left), 11, and Abigail, 14, at the base of a centuries-old Douglas fir growing in the Wall Street section of the Navajo Loop Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah on Aug. 18.
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Veronica Yankanich wasn't far from her Collingswood home when she captured her 11-year-old son Joe doing a front flip off the high dive. They were spending the day July 25 with friends at the Gloucester City Swim Club, where the Walt Whitman Bridge is in the background.
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Beth Weiner, Churchville: Young Island, a resort off the harbor of St. Vincent, Grenadines, West Indies.
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Laura Igoe, Philadelphia: Sunrise in the Tetons, near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, taken on Dec. 20, 2011.
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Jim McGrath, Philadelphia: Just before sunset on the beach near the lighthouse on Sanibel Island, Fla., on Nov. 27.
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Christopher Scholl, West Chester: My friend Carl sets up surf fishing gear on Brant Beach, Long Beach Island. It's 7 a.m. on Nov. 26, and the striped bass are running.
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Jim Vaccarelli, Exton: Sunset on Marco Island in Florida, taken in December.
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Helga Yang of Berwyn captured this sunset at Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, on Aug. 10. It was the very last contest entry, submitted on the Labor Day deadline.
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Elaine J. Couch of Philadelphia wrote of her submission: "On an 8,383-mile road trip across America this summer, one of the highlights was Mount Rushmore. This was our first look at it. There's lot's more to do there, once you park your car, but seeing it for yourself, up close and personal, was exciting and made you wonder what took you so long to make the trip!"
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Greg Rowan of Newtown Square calls his submission "Bored Coyote." It was taken at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, Calif., on June 20. "We had been at Glacier Point taking in the views and were on our way back down from the top when we saw this coyote," he wrote. "My wife was excited and nervous at the same time. I quickly got the camera out and took a couple of photos. This was a fortuitous shot since I couldn't see through the viewfinder from the angle I was shooting from. My wife asked me to get the shot of the coyote yawning - and luckily I did. Sometimes the best photos are the lucky ones."
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Dianne York of Newark, Del., sent in this Alaska landscape shot. "It was taken on July 24, 2012, and shows Dall sheep against a backdrop of the majestic mountains of Denali National Park. The photo was taken while my husband and I were on a bus tour through the park," she wrote.
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Todd Waldron of Philadelphia got lucky off the coast of Sandy Lane Beach in Barbados on July 8 and met up with this sea turtle while snorkeling.
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Daryl Mecklem of Mullica Hill sent in this photo shot late in the day July 28 at Gettysburg National Military Park. It's the statue of Gen. Alexander Hays (a Pennsylvanian) seen through the trees of Ziegler's Grove on Cemetery Ridge. Hays' command was heavily involved in the fighting during Pickett's Charge. "My wife and I were about to leave the battlefield when I saw the brilliant sunset coming through the trees and Hays' statue in the opening of the trees. I jumped out of the car and began shooting as the sun was quickly setting."
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Bonnie L. Sysko-Dodge, Northampton: A sign outside Palmerton, Pa., was a festive discovery on a day trip Dec. 21, 2011, to take holiday photos in the area.
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Betty Voll, Audubon, Camden County: Sand-a Claus, taken on Folly Beach
in South Carolina on Christmas Day, while visiting daughter and family.
Take a look at the rest of our readers' photo contest entries, from locations as close as Ocean City, N.J. and as far away as Tasmania.
View the gallery.
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