1st Place Winner

Comments from our judge, photographer Larry Vogel:

This was a tough category to judge. I eventually went with this – a familiar scene from Seattle’s Volunteer Park but shown in a new way. Most photographers will naturally try to place the Space Needle in the hole of artist Isamu Noguchi’s Black Sun, but this composition turns this around and gives the viewer something unexpected. The stark contrast of the heavy black obsidian and the wispy Space Needle partially obscured by mist creates a dissonance that keeps drawing my eye – and I’ll bet your eye too.