1st Place Winner

Comments from our judge, photographer Larry Vogel:

There’s much to see here, and each time I look at it I find something new. One day I’ll see a dragon (right in the center with the eye and the open mouth), another day it will look like the entry to a magic cave, and there’s the two lions staring each other down, and the stone troll face. Maybe you can’t see these right away, but keep looking and you’ll see more as your mind plays with the patterns and resolves them into something that maybe only you recognize. Good art – and by extension a good artistic photo – is an experience that’s different every time you view it.

Vicki Rivers