The winners of the 2015 Share the journey images contest were introduced Thursday and California featured prominently in the appropriate three photos.
The $10,000 grand prize winner of the contest, subsidized via the country wide Park foundation, became shot via a man from El Segundo and the 2nd and third place pictures depict the state's majestic panorama present in Joshua Tree and death Valley country wide parks.
The winning photo, shown above, is a astonishing image of the sun simply starting to height over the horizon in a daybreak at Glen Canyon country wide exercise area in Utah. It turned into shot by way of Yang Lu, an engineer who's also an outdoor adventurer who told contest officials that he hiked for two days to catch the breathtaking shot.
He mentioned he connects to nature via his digicam. "My photography isn't just for pastime, it's to encourage individuals to discover these areas," he advised contest officers.
2nd area went to Koustubh Kulkarni of Johnson city, TN, for his beautiful shot of bighorn sheep taken at Joshua Tree. Kulkarni and his spouse have been climbing the park's 49 arms trail last October at sundown when they got here throughout the animals.
"We have been looking at them and that they were us -- it was the excellent moment. We have been simply so elated to see the sheep. And, all of the credit score to my wife, who definitely noticed them," spoke of Kulkarni.
Native bighorn sheep are noticed at sundown final October in Joshua Tree national Park. — Koustabh Kulkarni (www.sharetheexperience.org) Native bighorn sheep are spotted at sundown last October in Joshua Tree countrywide Park. / Koustabh Kulkarni (www.sharetheexperience.org)
Third region went to Sarah Gustafson, an East Coast transplant who now lives in San Francisco.
Her photo turned into taken on a solo tenting travel on Memorial Day on the loss of life Valley salt apartments. She mentioned she had hiked to the enviornment the place she installation her tripod and hoped that the sun would come out. sure satisfactory, the solar broke in the course of the clouds just lengthy adequate for Gustafson to set her timer and start into the shot.
Sarah Gustafson took this shot of the salt flats at loss of life Valley countrywide Park. — Sarah Gustafson (www.sharetheexperience.org) Sarah Gustafson took this shot of the salt residences at death Valley national Park. / Sarah Gustafson (www.sharetheexperience.org)
The leisure of the photo winners will also be present in a gallery on the U.S. Dept. of interior's net page or on the branch's Instagram page.
Lu's profitable photograph, which changed into picked from the entries of extra thatn 15,000 novice photographers, might be featured on the the usa the pleasing Federal recreation Lands flow.
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