South – March 2020 – Feature/Single

Judges Comments

By far, this was the most difficult category to judge. Twelve images made it though the first edit and any of those could have been place winners. Five judges were involved in the Zoom meeting where we did the judging, and initially, each of the five had a different favorite for 1st-place. After a long debate, the judges finally compromised on these three as place winners. 1st was an easy call as all the judges had this “Nice Moment” in their picks for top-three. 2nd-place was another “Entertaining Moment.” 3rd-place was an “Intriguing” image that the judges kept coming back to.

Judges: Brian O'Mahoney/Freelance, Mark Black/Independent, Rob Hart/Illinois Press Photographers Association, Jason Brown/J. Brown Photography, Rob Dicker/contract photojournalist