South – January 2026 – Feature/Single

Judges Comments

There were a lot of solid entries with this category. We gravitated towards photos that had a strong moment and some emotion. This set the first place photo out immediately. Second place also had a great moment but we felt a crop on the right side would have cleaned it up significantly. Third place was a nice daily life photo.

Judges: Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean, Randall Greenwell/The Tennessean, Nicole Hester/The Tennessean