Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: The Sheboygan Press Entry Title: Stock the Shelves: This Plymouth farm gave 75,000 pounds of produce to support hunger relief. Here's how you can support too. Entry Credit: Gary Klein Judge Comment: The technical quality of this photo is great, while also showing all the hard work and energy these workers had given to the cause. You can see the sacrifice and it makes the reader care more about the story.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Herald Times Reporter Entry Title: Volunteers clean Civil War veterans' tombstones at Evergreen Cemetery Entry Credit: Gary Klein Judge Comment: Great photo and love the usage of the Gaussian Blur for impact. Photo stands on its own to evoke an emotion, while working well with the rest of the photos.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Oshkosh Northwestern Entry Title: Fuhrman verdict Entry Credit: William Glasheen Judge Comment: Such a simple photo, but taken at the perfect time to make you immediately feel for the people on both sides of this story. It's hard to capture emotion this well.
Place Name: Honorable Mention Contestant Name: EagleHerald Entry Title: Class and Splash Entry Credit: Josh Lacy Judge Comment: The technical aspect of this photo is absolutely superb, but the other three just had stronger reader impacts.
Competition Comment: These were all very strong photos. What really set the top three winners apart for me is how each were able to draw out an emotion from the readers.
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