STATE CONTEST WINNER

I recently won 1st place in the North Dakota Newspaper Association's ~ Pictorial Photo Over 12,001 Circulation ~ contest. Below you will find the photo that won the award for me, as well as photos of the award and one of how it appeared in the Minot Daily News. Winning this special award was an honor, and also quite exciting.


CRYSTAL VISIONS

Photo By: Roger Riveland

The cutline below the photo read:

Winter is the time of falling snow and ice crystals. Ice and snow crystals can take on many forms, ranging from six-sided cylinders to flat plates and complex flat forms having hexagonal symmetry. These majestic vertical light columns, captured on film at 3 a.m. Saturday outside the Golden Estates building in Williston, were caused by light being reflected by the flat undersides of the falling ice crystals in the cold air. In extreme cold like much of the state experienced last weekend, flat crystals grow and when falling tend to orient with their flat sides in the horizontal plane as they tumble through the air, like falling leaves.



The 1st Place Award I Won

The is the 11x14 plaque I won at the North Dakota Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest. The 117th convention of the NDNA was held in Grand Forks, North Dakota, May 2 ~ 3, 2003


This is how the photo appeared in the Minot Daily News on Region page B1 on Wednesday, March 13, 2002

JUDGE'S COMMENTS ABOUT MY PHOTO

An almost surreal image of an amazing feature of nature.  Good job of capturing the image in very adverse conditions and time of day.

View Ogden Newspapers award site following the link below.

OGDEN NEWSPAPER AWARDS PAGE



Here is a closer view of the plaque



Special Thanks

I would like to thank the Minot Daily News for entering my photography into the contest. I also would like to thank the North Dakota Newspapers Association for the award and the New Mexico Newspaper Association, who judged the contest, for picking my photo as the pictorial winner. Thanks very much to all of you.

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