Best of N4C 2017
 

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Annual Best of N4C Contest Winner Galleries:

Winners of the annual "Best of N4C" contest and were picked from the winners
of the monthly contests of the 2016-2017 season in each contest category.

INDEX OF GALLERIES
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                                  List of 2017 Best of N4C Award Winners

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Contest Category

Year End Award

Photographer

Name of Club

Title

Digital - B&W

1st

Gary Fagan

Dubuque Camera Club

Braving The Storm

2nd

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Rocks and Surf

3rd

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Sunrise at Mammoth Hot Springs-1

HM

Bob Rude

Iowa City Camera Club

Old Barn Light Switch

HM

Jose Garcia

Dubuque Camera Club

Picking flowers

HM

Deb Shoning

Des Moines Camera Club

Finding the Light

HM

Terry Butler

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Silver Glory

HM

Sheldon Farwell

Great River Camera Club

Hummer

HM

Erich Linser

Minot Camera Club

Have You Seen A Rabbit

Digital - Creative

1st

Shannon Voges

Sioux Falls Camera Club

Buffalo Explosion

2nd

Bill Williamson

Central Iowa Camera Club

Oops - my bowl broke

3rd

Melissa Anderson

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Three Hummingbirds

HM

Michael Huber

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Red Dress Series 02

HM

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines Camera Club

Neon Blue Waterlily

HM

Michael Huber

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Light

HM

Bonny  Fleming

Black Hills Photography Club

Not Quite Hayden

HM

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Water Lily

Digital - Journalism

1st

J. Arthur Anderson

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Standoff

2nd

Dave Horner

Topeka Camera Club

Controlling the burn

3rd

Shane Abbitt

Des Moines Camera Club

Stick Save

HM

Don Thun

Topeka Camera Club

Near Miss Scares Spectators

HM

Larry Swistoski

Saint Paul Camera Club

View from balloon as Hot Air Balloons Launch, NM

HM

Jonathon Atkins

Fargo-Moorhead Camera Club

Fully Engulfed

HM

Jim Boots

Wichita Area Camera Club

Icelandic Ice Caves are Other-Worldly

HM

Dack Nehring

North Metro Photo Club

The Outcome

Digital - Nature

1st

Betty Bryan

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Spring Warbler

2nd

Jose Garcia

Dubuque Camera Club

Winter Sunrise

3rd

Peggy Boike

Saint Paul Camera Club

Four Martins Two Eggs

HM

Martha Farwell

Great River Camera Club

Red-Eyed Tree Frog

HM

Sheldon Farwell

Great River Camera Club

Booted-Racket-Tail

HM

Sheldon Farwell

Great River Camera Club

Downy-woodpecker

HM

Allen Kurth

Omaha Camera Club

Sneak Attack at Dawn

HM

Melissa Anderson

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Fiery Throated Hummingbird

HM

Gary Fagan

Dubuque Camera Club

Protect Me

HM

Steve Silseth

Minot Camera Club

Landing Hen Pheasant

Digital - Pictorial

1st

Nikki McDonald

Omaha Camera Club

Happy Gecko

2nd

Dale Rehder

Fargo-Moorhead Camera Club

Cranes at Sunrise

3rd

Sheldon Farwell

Great River Camera Club

Mirror Image

HM

Pavel Blagev

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

Burning Sunrise

HM

Shannon Voges

Sioux Falls Camera Club

Daybreak at Ellingson Island

HM

Marianne Diericks

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

A Taste For Thistle

HM

Nikki McDonald

Omaha Camera Club

Sharing the Joy

HM

Marty Barker

Omaha Camera Club

A Peaceful Path

HM

Sheldon Farwell

Great River Camera Club

Fawn-Breasted Hummer

HM

Shannon Voges

Sioux Falls Camera Club

First Light at Oxbow Bend

Digital - Travel

1st

Tim Zeltinger

Minot Camera Club

Upper Antelope Canyon Page AZ

2nd

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines Camera Club

Fall in the Smokies, TN

3rd

Jose Garcia

Dubuque Camera Club

Alhambra (Spain)

HM

Robert Felderman

Dubuque Camera Club

San Diego CA Skyline and Sailboats at Sunset-7859

HM

Terry Butler

Western Wisconsin Photo Club

City Lights of Minneapolis MN

HM

Marty Barker

Omaha Camera Club

Icelandic Waterfall

HM

Kevin McTague

Dubuque Camera Club

John Hopkins Glacier, Alaska

HM

Jim Boots

Wichita Area Camera Club

Icelandic Waterfall

HM

Sandy Jorgenson

Sioux Falls Camera Club

Tremont Bridge, Great Smoky Mtns TN

Print - B & W

1st

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Clockworks

2nd

John Ryan

Des Moines Camera Club

No Alcoholic Beverages Were Harmed in the Creation of the Image

3rd

Ed Lorson

Iowa City Camera Club

Fiddling Around

HM

Michael Greiner

Sioux City Camera Club

Pontiac

HM

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Written in Stone

HM

Michael Greiner

Sioux City Camera Club

Mud Man V

Print - Color

1st

Anne S Olson

Great River Camera Club

Violet Tailed Sylph

2nd

Terri Dermody

Des Moines Camera Club

A Different Point of View

3rd

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines Camera Club

P-Town Bikes for Rent

HM

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Black Brook Sunrise

HM

Paul Hagan

Fargo-Moorhead Camera Club

Candy Dish

HM

Roxanne Westman

Fargo-Moorhead Camera Club

Moon Rising Over Agate Bay Lighthouse

Print - Creative

1st

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines Camera Club

Palouse Countryside

2nd

Ed Lorson

Iowa City Camera Club

Peace We Need

3rd

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Atlas Moth

HM

Doug Conrad

Sioux City Camera Club

Abstract Dance

HM

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Indian Corn

HM

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines Camera Club

Anchored

Print - Journalism

1st

Robert Lahti

Fargo-Moorhead Camera Club

Air Acrobat

2nd

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Old Threshers Reunion

3rd

Stephanie Nelson

Des Moines Camera Club

Letting Go

HM

Robert Lahti

Fargo-Moorhead Camera Club

Bulldogger + Hazer

HM

Scott Thompson

Duluth-Superior Camera Club

Torque

HM

Robert Lahti

Fargo-Moorhead Camera Club

Uphill Ballet

Print - Nature

1st

Michael Greiner

Sioux City Camera Club

White-Breasted Nuthatch

2nd

Michael Greiner

Sioux City Camera Club

Black-Eyed Junco

3rd

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines Camera Club

Bobcats Eye to Eye

HM

Michael Greiner

Sioux City Camera Club

Wallow Rage

HM

Terri Dermody

Des Moines Camera Club

Bobby Sox Trees

HM

Diane Lowry

Des Moines Camera Club

Who?

Print - Travel

1st

Dwight Tomes

Des Moines Camera Club

New Harbor Maine Lighthouse

2nd

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

The Watchman, Utah

3rd

Anne S Olson

Great River Camera Club

In Second Hand Clothes

HM

Dwight Tomes

Des Moines Camera Club

Ellis Island Hospital Hallway, NYC

HM

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Sunrise Saguaro, AZ

HM

Mark Gromko

Iowa City Camera Club

Waipo’o Halls, Hawaii

2 x 2 Slides

1st

Bob Lundquist

Saint Paul Camera Club

Havasu Creek

2nd

JoAnn Kuntemeier

Kuntemeier Kamera Club

Sandcastles

3rd

SuAnn Tichy

Cedar Rapids Camera Club

Cougar on Rocks

HM

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines Camera Club

Nose to Nose

HM

John Chadima

Cedar Rapids Camera Club

Antelope Slot Canyon

HM

Bob Rude

Iowa City Camera Club

Glass of Light

Print - Panorama

1st

Paul Grillo

Des Moines

Splintered Tracks of the Past

2nd

Mark Gromko

Iowa City

Old Threshers

3rd

Michael Walsh

Sioux City

Wallowa Mountains No. 2

HM

Delores Meister

Iowa City

Oct 8th at 6,800 Feet

HM

Don Gallagher

Minnesota Valley

MN State Fair Arts Building

HM

Jose Santos

Minnesota Valley

Umbria Sunrise

Photo Essay

1st

Mark Gromko

Iowa City

Seasons

2nd

J. Arthur Anderson

Western Wisconsin

We Rise Again

3rd

Terry Butler

Western Wisconsin

Express Yourself 2017

HM

GregPunelli

Des Moines

Life on the Prairie

HM

Nancy Heather Brown

Des Moines

Sticky Parlors

HM

Randy Moyer

Iowa City

The Writing is on the Wall

Club Communications - Bulletin

1st

Barry Castetter

Black Hills

Black Hills Expressions

2nd

Carl Hardy

Sioux City

Sioux Scope

3rd

Shannon Voges

Sioux Falls

Sioux Projector

HM

Jim Wendel

Albert Lea

Lens and Shutter

HM

Edwin Carlson

Cheyenne

Through the Lens

HM

Aaron Rider

Fort Dodge

Focus

Club Communications - Web

1st

Doug Conrad

Sioux City

http://www.siouxcitycameraclub.com/

2nd

Jonathan Dyess

Duluth-Superior

http://www.duluthsuperiorcameraclub.org/

3rd

Mary Dahlke & Bev Kiecker

Minnesota Valley

http://minnesotavalleyphotoclub.org/live/

HM

Kaleb Zook

Black Hills

http://blackhillsphotographyclub.com/

HM

Drago Nemec

Fargo-Moorheae

http://www.fmcameraclub.org/

HM

Terry Butler

Western Wisconsin

http://wiphotoclub.com/

Small Club of the Year

 

 

Iowa City Camera Club

 

Large Club of the Year

 

 

Des Moines Camera Club

 

Photographer of the Year

 

Diane Darnielle

Des Moines 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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