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CATEGORY DESCRIPTION
A picture that captures, with all its phenomena, the air, water, minerals, and life (flora and fauna) - an appreciation of the world.
1st Place
Tony Overman
The Olympian
Helicopter pilot Jess Hagerman swoops low as Rocky Spencer of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife hangs from the doorway and fires a tranquilizer dart (far right) into a Roosevelt elk during a capture procedure south of Elma, Wash., on March 9, 2002. The elk will be relocated to an area north of Mount Rainier, where native herds are diminishing.
2nd Place
Damon Winter
The Dallas Morning News
The American Electric Power General James M. Gavin Plant looms over Chris Brown, 16, (left) and Adam Schultz, 16, as they watch a high school softball game. After years of complaints about chemical fallout, air pollution and pollution related illnesses from Cheshire residents, AEP, in an unprecidented action, bought out the entire town.
3rd Place
Ric Fearson-Quest/AP
Sports Illustrated
Snake handler Peter Morningstar has his brow bitten by a 7 kilogram (15.5 pound), 3 meter (10 feet) long carpet snake during a photo shoot for a newspaper in Brisbane, Australia Thursday, May 30, 2002 after Morningstar removed the snake from a roof of a house. Reptile lover Morningstar has been bitten by non-venomous snakes before and this time the snake bit off more than it could chew, leaving only small puncture marks on Morningstar's face.
Honorable Mention
Greg Wood
AFP
A three-week old Jackson's Chameleon (L) climbs off a male's horn at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, 23 September 2002.
Honorable Mention
ANDY BRONSON
THE NEWS-REVIEW
Umpqua National Forest's Forestry Technician Marshall Good uses a tape measure to check the diameter of a fir tree near Bachelor Creek east of Glide, Ore. on December 5, 2002. Good and other technicians were out plotting areas and collecting data in areas burned by the Apple Fire. The technicians were recording the severity of the burn, percentage of tree crown still alive and snag sizes as well as other data about damage to the plotted area.
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