Country Roads Photo Contest Winners
Thank you to all the photographers that shared their best photos showing rural roads in the Country Roads Photo Contest with chances to win a Gift Card Bundle and more!
"It was exciting to see all the entries for this competition on Country Roads! Road are great - they lead us to places of mystery, adventure, beauty, and home, and many contestants captured that feeling of a road to wherever in their photographs. Not all gave enough emphasis to the road, though, and I felt that the road needed to be either the main subject or a strong element in the frame." - Brenda Tharp
A special thanks to our friend and professional photographer Brenda Tharp for her collaboration as a guest judge in this photo contest. Brenda Tharp has spent the past 30 years honing her artistic vision and skills. Her nature and travel photographs appear in a variety of magazines, books, ads, and brochures, for clients that include British Gas, Chronicle, Chicago Natural History Museum, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy, National Park Service and Sierra Club, to name a few. Her fine art prints are sold through interior designers and gallery events.
"I just loved the dream-like effect the photographer gave to this image in post-processing, but the low angle of light that defined the landscape and the warmth of the light, and sheep, all added up to a great picture for me." - Brenda Tharp
"while it’s simply a piece of farm machinery, it feels like an alien creature bearing down on the truck, and tells a story in a humorous way." - Brenda Tharp
"Showed great use of selective focus and a low point of view to make it feel like we’re emerging from the thicket and it expresses a bit of mystery, too." - Brenda Tharp
"Captures the drama of midwestern skies in the heartland of America, and the expansive feeling of big sky over the fields. " - Brenda Tharp
"Even though the road is not large here, the snippets of it showing here and there still held the scene together and expressed the story of meandering through a stunning landscape in dramatic light." - Brenda Tharp
