2017 Summer Fun Photo Contest Winners – “One Love” Gets Grand Prize

August 30, 2017

Thank you to everyone who entered the 2017 Summer Fun Photography Contest. In this issue, we are publishing all the entries that were selected by judges as the top photographs. In the next issue, the September Update issue, The Peak will publish the winner of the Diners’ Choice Award selected by guests at GPPA’s Summit of Summer Fun on September 9th. We will be publishing selected non-winning photographs in the September-Update and October issue.

And the winners are –

“One Love” (Morocco) by David Forrest – Tony Nelssen Award (Grand Prize)
“El Pedregal at the Boulders Resort”” by Tom Mangelsdorf – Winner Scenic Drive Category
• “One Love” (morocco) by David Forrest – Winner Travel Category
• “Spiny Lizard” by Tom Mangelsdorf – Winner Wildlife Category
“Solar Blessing” by Bruce Houser – Winner Local People Category
• “Turkey vulture flying over the Arizona Desert” by Kay Suchomel – Winner Landscape Category.

2017 Tony Nelssen Award Winner

 

man riding camel in Sahara

“One Love” (Morocco) by David Forest, Winner Travel Category, 2017 Summer Fun Photo Contest

2017 Category Winners

“El Pedregal at the Boulders Resort” by Tom Mangelsdorf, Winner Scenic Drive Category 2017 Summer Fun Photo Contest

 

Spiy Lizard"

“Spiny Lizard”, by Tom Mangelsdorf. Winner Willdlife Category, 2017 Summer Fun Photo Contest.

 

 

Woman making offering to sun

“Solar Blessing” by Bruce Houser, Winner Local People Category, 2017 Summer Fun Photo Contest.

 

Turkey vulture flying over desert

“Turkey vulture flying over the Arizona desert.” by Kay Suchomel, Winner Landscape Category, 2017 Summer Fun Photo Contest.

 

man riding camel in Sahara

“One Love” (Morocco) by David Forest, Winner Travel Category, 2017 Summer Fun Photo Contest

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Author: Les Conklin

Les Conklin is a resident of north Scottsdale He founded Friends of the Scenic Drive, the Monte de Paz HOA and is the president of the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association. He was named to Scottsdale's History Maker Hall of Fame in 2014. Les is a past editor of A Peek at the Peak and the author of Images of America: Pinnacle Peak. He served on the Scottsdale's Pride Commission, McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commission, the boards of several local nonprofits and was a founding organizer of the city's Adopt-A-Road Program.. Les is a volunteer guide at the Musical Instrument Museum.

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