Results of Great Smoky Mountains
“Details” Photo Contest

(Great Smoky Mountains) – Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont announces the winners of its second annual Great Smoky Mountains Photo Contest. Contestants were asked to enter photos that showed details of fauna or flora of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Contest coordinator, Josh Davis stated, “We received nearly twice the entries that we did last year, and the quality of the submissions keeps improving.”

A panel of Tremont judges selected the top five photos as winning entries. This year’s first place winner is Jo Ellis of Stone Mountain, Georgia for her photo called “Frosty Trap.” Joe said, “This image was taken last fall shortly after sunrise in Cades Cove. This particular morning the whole Cove was covered with this thick frost.  It was beautiful, and I was thrilled to find this wonderful spider web.”

The top five photos will be featured in Tremont’s biweekly e-news and on Tremont’s Web site (www.gsmit.org). “Given the huge number of beautiful photographs, we’ll plan on sharing some of the other top photographs in our e-newsletter and on our Web site throughout the year,” Davis said. “The subject matter was incredibly diverse – streams and cascades, critters and their homes, fungi and lichens, flowers and leaves.  It was wonderful to see how people took a fairly simple theme like “Details,” and expressed it in such myriad ways.  This is not only gratifying from an artistic standpoint, but it does a fabulous job of showcasing the diversity of life (and photographic opportunities) inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park.”

The Blount County Voice and the Maryville Daily Times sponsored the contest and ran articles featuring the photos and those who took them.

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