See the Top
25 photos on
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Graece Gabriel, 54,
of Otter Rock, won the
judges’ pick for First
Place with her photo
“Minty Wave.” She cap-
tured a fantastic action
shot of an ocean wave
hitting a rocky Oregon
Coast shoreline. You can
almost feel the spray of
the water. Placing in
Coast Weekend’s Photo
Contest isn’t new to Ga-
briel — she won Third
Place in last year’s con-
test.
2015 ANNUAL COAST WEEKEND
PHOTO
contest
H
ere are the top shots of the 2015 Coast Weekend
Photo Contest. With 855 photos submitted, this
year’s contest was big. Determining the best of
the best was tough — there were tons of interest-
ing, beautiful and eye-catching entries for judges
to look over. This year there were great turnouts
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the Portland metro area, Eastern Oregon and the central Or-
egon Coast, as well as some entries from northern Washing-
ton and Southern Oregon.
More than 900 people voted on coastweekend.com for
the People’s Choice photo, a striking purple and yellow
sunset photo taken from Barview, an unincorporated com-
munity located between Rockaway Beach and Garibaldi at
the mouth of Tillamook Bay. Photographer Lori Ann Nor-
ton, 48, of Salem, won People’s Choice with 71 votes and
also made the Top 10 Honorable Mentions.
Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all who
entered. It’s inspiring to see the beauty and variety of your
photos, and we can’t wait to see what you shoot for next
year.
– Rebecca Selack, Coast Weekend Editor
Anthony James, 50,
of Salem, took Second
Place with his photo of
a crashing ocean wave
and sunlit cliffs. “I took
this shot in a sequence
of seven shots to capture
the size of this explod-
ing wave,” James says.
“When I was looking at
the shots, I saw a pro-
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the exploding water, so
I named it ‘Ocean An-
gel.’”
Third Place went to
Joanne Ridout, 40, of
Monroe, Washington,
for her photo “The Aban-
doned,” which shows
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abandoned in the cor-
ner of a window sill at a
cabin on Hood Canal. “I
liked how the webs had
covered it, making it a
trap of another sort,” she
says.
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TOP 10 HONORABLE MENTIONS
5. “Mule Deer at Blue Mountains” by Mike Morehead, 68, of Pilot
Rock
6. “Birch Bay Sunset” by Tiffany Bunch, 34, of Kennewick, Wash-
ington
7. “Sunset at Cape Kiwanda” by Trish Payne, 40, of Bend
8. “Heading up River” by Jeff Daly, 64, of Astoria
9. “Hole in the Sky to Heaven” by Vin Searles, 61, of Salem
10. “Dixie Butte” by Meaghan Keffer, 26, of John Day
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