The Inside Story is pleased to present entries and winners in our photo contest, "Winter in Southwest Nova Scotia ". As in our Fall Photo Contest, geographic coverage of the entries was broad-- from Granville Ferry to Windsor. I congratulate those who took a breathe of winter air and recorded our winter in the valley and along the shore. Entries were terrific. I love looking at these images but hate having to judge them. The photo description weighed into consideration of my judging, especially where it was very difficult to separate a better entry based on the photo alone. I went with the more passionate description of the photo.

In addition to our website postings, we plan to display entries in our Greenwood bookstore. So come by in a week or so to view them, live. For those of you who sent prints we will have them available for pickup as well at month's end.

We invite your feedback, comments and suggestions on this contest. Email theinsidestory@gmail.com or send us mail to: The Inside Story, PO Box 1775 Greenwood NS Canada. B0P 1N0.

I thank all of you for entering our second photo contest. Are you ready for a summer contest? Let me know.

Cheers
Edward Wedler, The Inside Story

Click on the small thumbnail images, below, to see larger format images.
CRITERA USED to rank and select our favourites:
1 "Uniqueness quotient" to southwest Nova Scotia
2 representative of winter
3 quality of submitted photo description
4 quality of photograph and of composition

Stephen Christian SCENIC Terri Corbett SCENIC winner Bree Hester WORK/PLAY Christina Stokes SCENIC Lynn Main SCENIC Phyllis Mahar SCENIC Christina Stokes WORK/PLAY winner Kaylee Melanson OPEN Justine MacDonald SCENIC hon mention Geraldine L Miller WORK/PLAY Geraldine Miller OPEN winner Cynthia MacLeod SCENIC Kayley Melanson SCENIC Lynn Main OPEN Marilyn Keddy SCENIC Marilynn Keddy WORK/PLAY Wendy Ross OPEN Wendy Ross SCENIC Lynn Main WORK/PLAY Fewer entries were submitted for our winter photo contest though we have both returning photographers plus some newcomers. Our judge polled four different, independent assistants and ALL picked different photos as their favourites. So you see, it's not easy. In fact, there are no real "winners". There are "favourites". A few of the photographs are absolutely outstanding, so keep snapping and be creative. We invite you and your family/friends to join us for a summer photo contest. If you have a category to suggest for that summer contest please email: theinsidestory@gmail.com.