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Photo contest winner
This image from the Cullasaja Gorge captured a first place in Wildlife in North Carolina magazine’s 2007 photo contest for Cullowhee photographer Scott Hotaling. The picture took top honors among the 810 images entered in the contest’s landscape category, titled “Peaks, Valleys and Plains.” Hotaling, 21, an engineering student at N.C. State, also won a second place in the “Wild Plants” category for a photo of a Schweinitz’s sunflower refracted upside down in a dewdrop that he took along the Blue Ridge Parkway. A total of 1,019 photographers submitted 5,484 images, with the grand prize going to Ed Ziegler of Raleigh for his shot of a school of white mullet in a wave at Emerald Isle. Wildlife in North Carolina is the official educational publication of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Thirty-one award winning pictures from the annual competition are now on display in the January issue and on exhibit through March 31 at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. A gallery of winners is also posted on the Commission’s Web site at http://www.ncwildlife.org. Hotaling, whose photos have appeared in The Sylva Herald’s “Across the Mountains” summer magazine, is the son of Richard and Lynn Hotaling of Cullowhee; more of his images are online at www.lightofthewild.com. |
