By Ellen Bedrosian
I’m sure I’m not unique among photographers when I see images from far away places and wish I had the time and resources to go there and shoot them myself. The aurora borealis in Iceland, Chinese fishermen on rafts in the early morning mist, snow-covered bison in Yellowstone National Park … they’re all images calling out to me to capture them.
Sometimes, though, we have no choice but to listen to the whispers of the images that surround us everyday, close to home, that may be worthy of our attention as well. I like to walk around my neighborhood on warm, summer evenings with my camera, always on the lookout for something new to shoot. It was on one such walk that I captured this image, which after some manipulation, won Image of the Year in Beginner class in 2008.
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