Thanks to everyone who submitted to the 5th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition. Forty-six images have been selected for exhibition from the more than 860 submitted. Photographers whose works have been selected for exhibition have been notified.
Beginning with a public reception on Friday, March 7, 2008 and running through June 7, 2008, this year’s selected images will be available for viewing in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Images selected for exhibition will also be available for viewing via the Internet and the public is invited to vote for their favorite images as part of the People’s Choice Award sponsored by Footsloggers Outdoor and Travel Outfitters. We will make an announcement in this blog when the voting procedures are posted.
5th Annual AMPC Finalists List
You can find the 5th Annual AMPC Finalists photos in our archives.
| Adventure | |
| John Nichols | “Frosty Early Morning Hike” |
| Heidi Hatcher (2) | “Meadow Nap” & “Backpacker’s Silhouette” |
| Lynn Willis (2) | “Paraglider flies over western Watauga County, NC.” & “Catch of the day!” |
| Patrick Pitzer | “Stone Mountain Climbers” |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Share the Journey® | |
| John Nichols | “Relaxing on a Southern Appalachian Evening” |
| Terry Young | “Touring Doughton Park” |
| Bob Peterson | “Back In time” |
| Jamie Belongea | “Boys on the Blue Ridge” |
| Colby Rabon | “Beneath the Viaduct” |
| Andre Masson | “Biltmore Winter” |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas | |
| Dale Forrest | “A Bird’s Eye View” |
| Scott Hotaling | “Mountain Calm” |
| Tommy Stine | “Valley Farm” |
| Robert Sterling Gingher | “Trestle Bridge” |
| Rick Rapfogel | “Rough Ridge 360” |
| Jessica Maceda | “Glee Gloom” |
| Dale King | “Solitary Cloud” |
| Culture | |
| Steven Gold | “Preparing Food for the Family” |
| Roger W. Bodo | “French Swiss Ski Rental Building Fire Last Remains” |
| Mary Jo Brezny | “Hewitt Barn” |
| Ian Riley | “School Days” |
| Jamie Goodman | “Avery A&H Fair, September 2006” |
| Robert and Shiiko Alexander (2) | “Dave Dukes Sorts Tobacco Leaves” & “Neal’s Grocery” |
| Environment | |
| Brad Douglass | “Venus” |
| Kerry Puckett | “Pumping Station, Little Tennessee River, June 2006” |
| Robert Vance | “Dew” |
| Deborah Burchett | “Hard Times” |
| Jessica Maceda | “F A N T A S I A” |
| Charles King | “River of Cows” |
| Flora and Fauna | |
| Liezel D’souza | “American Goldfinch” |
| Pat Pilchard | “Hosta 800” |
| Bob Peterson | “Swallowtail on Joe Pye” |
| Bill McClung | “A Spooky Tree on Mount Mitchell” |
| James M. Davidson | “Queen Anne’s Lace” |
| Joanne Senkus | “Katydid” |
| Scott Brown | “brook trout” |
| Landscape | |
| Bob Peterson | “Sunrise after Ice Storm” |
| Lynn Willis | “Sunset on fall colors, Table Rock, Linville Gorge.” |
| Rick Rapfogel | “Rainy Woods” |
| Lynne Townsend | “Frozen Hillscape” |
| Neal Auspitz | “Angry Morning” |
| Patrick Pitzer | “Cleo’s View” |
| Charles King | “Elk Mountain” |
A huge round of applause and congratulations for this year’s winners of the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition! Virtual Blue Ridge will be posting a gallery of this year’s winners soon. Thanks again to all of you for participating in this year’s competition. After seeing the stiff competition from this year, we look forward to next year more and more.
The 5th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition is a service of Outdoor Programs at Appalachian State University and serves to subsidize students participating in Student Outdoor Learning Expeditions (SOLE trips). SOLE trips are 21 to 55 day educational journeys of discovery to remote and exciting destinations including New Zealand, Fiji, Wales, and Alaska. Outdoor Programs has been offering human-powered, adventure-based programs to the students, faculty and staff of ASU for more than thirty-five years.