Show Your Stream Photo Contest Winners Announced

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Watershed Alliance of Sandy Springs recently recognized the winners of its inaugural Stream Photo Contest.

The winners were presented prizes in a ceremony held Aug. 30 at the Morgan Falls Overlook Park Pavilion.

Winning entries are featured in a new WASS 2016 photo calendar and on note cards, which will be available for purchase at the 2015 Sandy Springs Festival.

The organization hopes that the calendar will help raise awareness of this valuable, yet fragile resource residents have in their backyards.

The photo contest was developed as a project of a group within Leadership Sandy Springs’ Class of 2015 to help elevate the visibility of and provide needed support to WASS, a small nonprofit organization.

The community was invited to submit photos from any of six watersheds and the 12 winning photos are showcased in the calendar. A panel of three judges reviewed the photo entries and awarded the first place winner with $75, the second with $50 and the third $25, with prizes made possibly by Dignity Memorial.

Also Showcase Photo and Video gave each winner a $25 certificate.

The following winners (in order of first, second and third place) are:

• Streamscapes with People: Charrel Hunter, Amanda Collins, and Beth Faircloth.
• 12 and Under: William Lawramore (all three placements)
• Streamscapes with Animals: Amanda Collins, Jack Florek, and Karen Meinzen McEnerny
• Streamscapes Scenic: Evan Bauman, Calloway Powlus, and Linda Bain

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Photo 1: The photographers behind the photos: Amanda Collins, Evan Bauman, Calloway Powlus, Karen Meinzen McEnerny, William Lawrimore, Jack Florek, and Beth Faircloth.
Photo 2: WASS member Ed Steele joins WASS Executive Director Sherry Epstein to present the newly published 2016 WASS photo calendar.
Photo 3: John Williams of Showcase Photo and Video and Ed Steele of WASS congratulate William Lawrimore on his wins.
Photo credits: Watershed Alliance of Sandy Springs