2009 AMPC Finalists Announced!
We sent out the call to professional and amateur photographers all over the country to submit their images that depict the Southern Appalachian Mountain region in their own unique and special way, and the response was truly overwhelming! This year’s judges reviewed 918 images – no small feat indeed.
Below we have listed the forty-seven images that have been selected for exhibition at the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
This year’s category winners are:
| Adventure | |
| Alan Hughes | “Wet & Wild” |
| Eric Heistand | “Splash or Trash”
“Parallels” “Twilight on Table” |
| Joe Quinn | “WI4, M5″ |
| John Nichols | “Winter Paddling Solitude” |
| Kristian Jackson | “Lost Coz” |
| Lynn Willis | “Second Ascent of Raptor’s Delight” |
| Vicky Sawyer | “Supper on Mount Rogers” |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Share the Journey® – Dogs on the Parkway
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| Andi Gelsthorpe | “Anodyne’s Affection” |
| Jane Best | “Jazz and Peak” |
| Jill Smith | “Benson at Beacon Heights”
“Comet at Thunder Hill” |
| Scott Brown | “Floppy Ears” |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas | |
| Bob Peterson | “Sunrise Over the Blue Ridge Mountains”
“Harvest Moon Over the Blue Ridge” |
| D L Ennis | “The Morning After” |
| Dale King | “Grandfather Monolith” |
| Joyce O’Neil | “Pounding Mill Overlook” |
| Tommy Stine | “First Snow” |
| Tommy White | “Magic Surrounds Me” |
| Culture | |
| Beth Brittain | “Ruins in the Woods” |
| Carole Usdan | “Blue Braid” |
| Dustin Chambers | “Typewriter” |
| Eric Heistand | “Beware of Dog?” |
| Hallie Hochman | “The Contra Dance” |
| Jeffrey Stoner | “From Past to Present” |
| Jeffrey Waldron | “Grillbillies” |
| Kenneth Kirksey | “Untitled” |
| Kerry Puckett | “Boone Drug Waitresses: Marilyn, Wilma G, Wilma D” |
| Terry Young | “Shadows of Bluegrass” |
| Environment | |
| Dustin Chambers | “Boone Saloon Fire”
“Pipes” |
| Jesse Hawk | “The Tree Documentary” |
| Heather Wolf Turner | “Progression” |
| Lynn Willis | “Pinnacle Fire in Linville Gorge Wilderness Area” |
| Maria Lloyd | “Leaves on Wood” |
| Flora and Fauna
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| Jayne Caruso | “Camoflauge” |
| Jessica Maceda | “Wonder Collides” |
| Laura Brittain | “Curly Q’s” |
| Mike Naney | “Fawn Dew” |
| Landscape
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| Cory Barlow | “Stone Mountain Pano” |
| Dale Forrest | “First Color” |
| Dale King | “Halloween Creek” |
| Jeffrey Stoner | “Drifting Along the Appalachian Trail” |
| Keith Lisk | “Whitewater Falls” |
| Lawrence Elmer | “Seasonal Landscapes” |
A huge round of applause and congratulations for this year’s winners of the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition! High Country Photos will be posting a gallery of this year’s winners as soon as the People’s Choice Award voting goes live March 6, 2009. Thanks again to all of you for participating in this year’s competition. Each year the level of competition gets raised with more and more entries and quality of images submitted.
I can barely wait for next year!
Congratulations to all the winners. I look forward to seeing the winning works.
Best of luck to you all!
It was wonderful news to find out that two of my images will be exhibited at the Turchin Center. I’m looking forward to seeing all the images and meeting my fellow photographers at the reception.
I also want to join Joyce and thank the judges for their work – I can only imagine the effort it took to review 918 images.
I look forward to seeing all of the prints at the Turchin Center. Good luck to all.
I want to personally thank all the judges who took on this behemoth project. Be assured that we greatly appreciate your diligence in this endeavor as it was no easy task.
Houck Medford
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
Executive Director
I am honored to be included with such fine artist… best of luck to each of you. I hope to meet all of you at the reception. We can learn so much from each other. And a special thanks to the judges for their time and dedication to make it possible for all of us. So far the whole experience has been a very positive one. Take care!