West – May 2025 – Portrait

Judges Comments

First place easily rose to the top in this thin category with a genuine moment between the two subjects in a straight-forward environmental portrait. Second place is clean and uses the light well. The words feel heavy-handed. Third place showed nice use of natural light. We question why the image seems to be cropped to reduce the effectiveness of the framing.

Judges: James Patterson/Valley News, Alex Driehaus/Valley News