Best of N4C 2025
 

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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 2024-2025 season in each contest category.

INDEX OF GALLERIES
Scroll down for a list of the Award Winners
[Click the thumbnails to see Winner Galleries in each category]
 
Digital Images
  - B&W Digital
  - Altered Reality Digital
  - Journalism Digital
  - Nature Digital
  - Pictorial Digital
  - Travel Digital
   
Prints
  - Black & White Prints
  - Pictorial Color Prints
  - Altered Reality Prints
  - Nature Prints
  - Journalism Prints
  - Travel Prints
   
Digital Panorama
Contest in 2025





                          List of 2025 Best of N4C Award Winners

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                                            v 12/1/2025

Contest Category

Year End Award

Photographer

Name of Club

Title

Digital – Altered Reality

 

1st

Bob Rude

Iowa City

Night Time Visitor

2nd

Peggy Boike

Saint Paul

Iris Bouquet

3rd

Mark Gromko

Iowa City

One if by Night

HM

Bob Rude

Iowa City

Mystery in the Cemetery

HM

Martha Farwell

Great River

Apple Orchard

HM

Deb Shoning

Des Moines

Spring Cleaning

Digital - B&W

 

1st

Dorothy Sansom

Omaha

Along the River Nore,

2nd

Canan Karatekin

Women’s Photo

Zoo animals--Lemur

3rd

William Fritsch

Minnesota Valley

Monarch

HM

Allen Kurth

Omaha

Full Gallop Leap

HM

Craig Alberty

Black Hills

Nebraska Fascination

HM

Michael Greiner

Sioux City

Harmony

HM

Cindy Carlsson

Saint Paul

Concentration

HM

Terry Butler

Western Wisconsin

Oallas Long-Tongue Bat

Digital - Journalism

 

1st

Mariann Cyr

Western Wisconsin

Monterey Aquarium

2nd

Ron Nicolls

Sioux City

Opps

3rd

Mariann Cyr

Western Wisconsin

July 4th Parade

HM

Markus Erk

Black Hills

Lakota with Sacred Water

HM

Steve Hansen

Black Hills

Who Needs a Hat

HM

Allen Kurth

Omaha

Air Show Highlight

Digital - Nature

 

1st

Tim Beaulier

Duluth-Superior

Waters in Heaven

2nd

Steve Fleagle

Iowa City

Wing Tip Drag

3rd

Ken Epstein

Saint Paul

Protein Supplement

HM

Allen Kurth

Omaha

Sunrise Scuffle on the Prairie

HM

Chris Carlson

Duluth-Superior

Super Moon Lightning

HM

David Abernathy

Minot

lightning Strike

HM

Gary Gilbert

Sioux City

Good Catch

HM

Steve Fleagle

Iowa City

North Umpqua River

Digital - Pictorial

 

1st

Laurie McShane

Duluth-Superior

Out of the Mist

2nd

Sharon Watson

Fargo-Moorhead

USAF F-22 Raptor

3rd

Kenneth Kiss

Dubuque

Spring Bluebird

HM

Pat Grewe

Lincoln

Dragonfly and Aster

HM

Allen Kurth

Omaha

A Simple Drop of Water

HM

Peggy Boike

Saint Paul

Purple Iris Closeup

HM

Beverly Hawkins

Women’s Photo

The Work Never Ends.2

HM

Marge Springett

Western Wisconsin

Crane Lift

HM

Stephonie Schmitz

Dubuque

Sunkissed Belvedere Mountain-Moorea French Polynesia

Digital - Travel

 

1st

Martha Farwell

Great River

Bow River Alberta CA

2nd

Margaret West

Omaha

Foggy Morning Over the Slovenian Hills, Slovenia

3rd

Doug Conrad

Sioux City

Early Morning at Bear Butte, SD

HM

Marv Vikla

Saint Paul

Balloons over Cappadocia Turkey

HM

Deb Zimmerman

Black Hills

Fire Opal Skies Over Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyo

HM

Joseph Schufman

Western Wisconsin

Joshua Tree National Park at Dawn

HM

Rebeccaa DeWitt

Black Hills

Light in the Darkness, Oregon

Print – Pictorial -
B & W

1st

Todd Johnson

Minot

Sorem's Westland Service Station

2nd

Doug Conrad

Sioux City

Storm Brewing Over Fort Randall

3rd

Chuck Stowe

Des Moines

Back in the Day

HM

Stephonie Schmitz

Dubuque

Land Formations of North Caineville Mesa

HM

Deb Shoning

Des Moines

Let the Light Shine In

HM

Doug Conrad

Sioux City

Kawishiiwi Falls Trail

Print – Pictorial - Color

1st

Ron Tigges

Dubuque

Port of Dubuque Sunset

2nd

Marc Ye

Saint Paul

Frozen

3rd

Stephonie Schmitz

Dubuque

Layers of Nature

HM

Crystal Johnson

Minot

The Wind Beneath My Wings

HM

Chuck Stowe

Des Moines

Doc Armstrong

HM

Stephanie Nelson

Des Moines

Drummer

Print – Altered Reality

1st

Stephonie Schmitz

Dubuque

Light Bursts of the Forest

2nd

Drago Nemec

Photoshooters

Lake Lida

3rd

Drago Nemec

Photoshooters

Smoke

HM

Dwight Tomes

Des Moines

The Culed off Colored Leaf

HM

Tim Zeltinger

Minot

Spirits Give Guidance

HM

Stephonie Schmitz

Dubuque

Split Personality

Print - Journalism

1st

Drago Nemec

Photoshooters

Fireman

2nd

Robert Lahti

Duluth-Superior

Keeping the culture alive

3rd

Ken Epstein

Saint Paul

Leaders at 25 Mile Point

HM

Robert Lahti

Duluth-Superior

Preparing for the Corner

HM

Drago Nemec

Photoshooters

Bronco Rider

HM

Ronnie Hartman

Saint Paul

Lions of Judah on Plymouth Avenue

Print - Nature

1st

Drago Nemec

Photoshooters

Yellow Lady Slipper 2

2nd

Ken Epstein

Saint Paul

Heron at Sunrise

3rd

Debbie Carroll

Duluth-Superior

Heaven and Earth

HM

Ken Epstein

Saint Paul

Hoodie

HM

Deb Shoning

Des Moines

Stone Chat 049T in the Reeds

HM

Drago Nemec

Photoshooters

Yellow Lady Slipper 1

Print - Travel

1st

Debbie Bates

SW Iowa Shutterbugs

Caddo Lake Karnack TX

2nd

Stephonie Schmitz

Dubuque

Horseshoe Bend at Sunrise Page, AZ

3rd

James Durrant

Dubuque

Rainbow Falls Watkins Glen NY

HM

Stephonie Schmitz

Dubuque

Rainbows Over Waimea Canyon, Kauai, HI

HM

Drago Nemec

Photoshooters

Split Rock Lighthouse MN

HM

Doug Conrad

Sioux City

Mato Paha Sturgis SD

Panorama Digital

1st

Mike Cronin

Lincoln

Northern Lights Lake McDonald Glacier NP

2nd

Brian Rauvola

Duluth-Superior

Eclipse in Arkansas

3rd

Tom Arnhold

Topeka

Crater Lake Sunrise

HM

Tim Zeltinger

Minot

Ellingson Island & Split Rock Lighthouse

HM

Kim Walter

SW Iowa Shutterbugs

Ox Bow Bend

HM

Scott Bohaty

Lincoln

Badlands SD

Photo
Journalism Story

1st

Bob Rude

Iowa City

Colorado Springs Balloon Festival

2nd

Tom Schoening

Sioux City

Blue Mass at the Cathedral of the Epiphany

3rd

Diane Sisko

Western Wisconsin

Hayward Wisconsin Lumberjack World Championship

HM

Linda Rutherford

Women’s Photo

 Bad Luck at the Track

Photo Essay
Videos of the winners are in the Awards Show

1st

Mark Gromko

Iowa City

If These Barns Could Talk

2nd

Kathleen Wolleat

Duluth-Superior

Where Time and Beauty Meet: An Italian Journey

3rd

Nancy Heather Brown

Des Moines

Boca and Beyond

HM

Ed Hohenstein

Sioux City

Weathered But Unbroken

HM

Bob Rude

Iowa City

Let's Get Close

Video Essay

1st

Kathleen Wolleat

Duluth-Superior

Moments on the Frozen Edge of the North

2nd

Tom Schoening

Sioux City

Corpus Christi Sunday Procession In Sioux City, IA

Club Communications – Newsletter

1st

Kevin Segrud

Black Hills

Black Hills Expressions

2nd

Carl Hardy

Sioux City

Sioux Scope

3rd

Laurie McShane

Duluth-Superior

Snapshot

Club Communications - Web

1st

Marty Welter

Omaha

https://www.omahacameraclub.net/

2nd

Paul Zahorosky

Duluth-Superior

https://www.duluthsuperiorcameraclub.org/

3rd

Terry Butler

Western Wisconsin

https://wiphotoclub.com/

HM

Joe Santos

Minnesota Valley

https://minnesotavalleyphotoclub.org/

HM

Doug Conrad

Sioux City

https://www.sccameraclub.com/

Small Club of the Year

 

 

Minot Camera Club

 

Large Club of the Year

 

 

Dubuque Camera Club

 

Photographer of the Year

 

Stephonie
Schmitz

Dubuque Camera Club

 

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