Grand Marais photographer David R. Johnson won honorable mention in the Lake Superior Magazine 2013 photo contest. He shared it with the Cook County News-Herald in 2012 as well. Readers were delighted to see this close-up view of a bear that had sniffed out a chipmunk’s cache of hazelnuts.
Local photographer David R. Johnson of Grand Marais, whose photos have graced the pages of the Cook County News-Herald numerous times, has won honorable mention in the Nature category in the 18th annual Lake Superior Photo Contest, announced in the February/ March 2013 issue of Lake Superior Magazine.
Johnson won honors for his Hazelnut Bear. His photo of a large black bear was one of 1,284 images entered into the contest from photographers in 138 different cities, in 18 states, one U.S. territory (Guam) and Canada.
Mary Amerman of Duluth won the grand prize with a photo of the watersmoothed rocks of Duluth’s Brighton Beach.
All of the winning photos, as well as finalists, can be seen in a slideshow at the Lake Superior Magazine website: http:// www.lakesuperior.com/articles/photocontest12/.
The deadline for the 19th annual Lake Superior Photo Contest is October 16, 2013. Read the rules and learn how to enter at the Lake Superior Magazine website as well.
Johnson also received recognition for one of his Northern Lights photos. His was one of 13 photos selected to grace the 2013 WDIO TV Storm Team Calendar. Sue Holt, graphic supervisor at WDIO-TV, congratulated the winners saying, “There were many ‘oohs and ahhs’ as we went through the judging process of nearly 2,000 entries.”
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