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July 4th near Paonia, Colorado. | Landscape 1st -
Camping under the stars in Grand Teton National Park’s Gros Ventre Campground in Wyoming. | Landscape 2nd -
The sun rises on a small farmstead outside Walla Walla, Washington. | Landscape 3rd -
Human Nature, a conceptual project that portrays man’s attempt to become one with the landscape. Tucson, Arizona. | Landscape Editors’ Choice -
Steph enjoys a hot springs soak in Monroe, Utah. | People 1st -
Rock climber, Jessica Baker, tackles a tough line on Corbet’s Couloir as the Jackson Hole tram passes by. | People 2nd -
Two old friends meet joyously in Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. | People 3rd -
Martin’s crew, commercial wild mushroom pickers, load up the day’s pick: about 90 pounds of wild morels each, in Tok, Alaska. | People Editors’ Choice -
A greater short-horned lizard blends in at Elden Pueblo in Flagstaff, Arizona. | Wildlife 2nd (tied) -
A Western Bluebird brings home grasshopper “bacon” in Franktown, Colorado. | Wildlife 2nd (tied) -
A bald eagle gnaws salmon along the Chilkat River near Haines, Alaska, where warm glacial melt filters through an alluvial fan, giving the river one of the state’s latest salmon runs each year. | Wildlife Editors’ Choice -
A rufous hummingbird guards his territory on a damp spring morning in Douglas County, Colorado. | Wildlife 1st
This summer, we asked you, readers, to send in your best photographs of Western wildlife, people and places. You delivered, with 567 entries. Here, we present the editors’ top three choices, along with the three winners in each category from online voting. Browse the remaining entries here.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Winners of the HCN reader photography contest.
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