NOAA Picks Stunning Winners of First-ever Weather Photo Contest
First place professional photo: The stars come out behind a storm as it heads east near Julesburg, CO on May 19, 2014 by Brad Goddard (via NOAA)
On Tuesday, NOAA announced the winners of its first-ever public photo contest, showcasing dazzlingviews of weather from the around the nation. Professional and amateurs photographers submitted over 2,000photos of all kinds of weather phenomenon.
A panel of judges, including myself, helped select first, second and third place and honorable mention in four categories:
- Professional photography, including submissions from anyone who receives remuneration for taking photographs
- Weather, water and climate, [i]magesdepict both the subtle and extreme power of weather and climate
- Science in action, [i]magesdepict researchers working in field or laboratory settings
- In the iMoment, [i]mages in this category were taken with a camera phone.
All of the award winners will be displayed in a Gateway to NOAA exhibit in Silver Spring, beginning in July.
Beloware the top two photos from each category. For all of the award winners, visit NOAAs photo contest Web site .
Professional photo category
Second place professional photo: A beautiful tornado churns up dust in the sunset light near Traer, IA on July 6, 2014 by Brad Goddard (via NOAA)
Weather, water and climate category
Science in action category
Second place photo: Photographer captures the aurora by Christopher Morris, Fairbanks, AK (via NOAA)
In the iMoment category
Second place photo: Spring Captured: Freezing rain attempts to halt spring by Mike Shelby (via NOAA)
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Mother Nature sure gives us a lot of beauty without no help from humans.
The more you show these incredible photos the more I realize how far I have to go to be that good.
And I am still miles behind you
Your pictures are great
Thanks for the feedback
And I am still miles behind you So am I!! Thank you sooo much for taking the time to find and post all of the wonderful pic's that you post for us....
We call that picture of the clouds in the Smokies, a "buttermilk sky"... Have you heard of that?
Lovely pictures! All of them are fascinating!
That makes 3 of us!
Nona
Yoi are most welcome, I just share the stuff that I really like
That you guys like some of it as well is just all the better
Dowser
I have heard of the buttermilk sky, my oldest lives out in the middle of nowhere Missouri (a real place I think
) and he takes a lot of sunrise, sunset and weather related pictures and shares them with his mom and me.
I thought you might like these weather pictures
Careful RIO, I live in nowhere MO.
Stunning photographs.
Kavika
Oops!
The boy is between Joplin and Pittsburg, KS out in the stick and he and the wife love the solitude
Appreciate the feedback on the pictures
They are all incredible shots, but I hate to say that I loved every one of the 2nd place winners over the first place ones. Just a matter of taste I guess.
TGD
I thought a lot of the runners-up should have won as well, but I liked them all
Thanks for the fedback
Wow!
Just great!
A Mac
Glad you liked them!