May Photo Contest Winners

The winners of the May “Outdoor Action” Monday Memo Photo Contest are as follows:

• First place (tie): Mary Ellen Baker, Exceptional Child Education (ECE) teacher at Cochran Elementary, and Trish Hamilton-Cooper, art and photography teacher at Eastern High
• Second Place: Denise Perry, secretary with Administrator Recruitment and Development
• Third Place: Lynn Wurfel, clerk at the Youth Services Center (YSC) at Fern Creek Traditional High

To view a slideshow of all May photo contest entries, click here.

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Baker took this photo in November from the door of a home in Beechwood Village, a neighborhood off Shelbyville Road near St. Matthews Mall. Baker enjoys the high level of activity in the photo and the apparent socializing among the birds in the birdbath. She took many photos of the birds, but this one has the most activity. “Only the starlings are in the water,” Baker says. “One of them is splashing around. One is making eye contact with a sparrow. A robin is yelling something to one of them. Another sparrow is flying up to the birdbath, and another starling is keeping watch at the far end.”

Hamilton-Cooper made this photograph of an Eastern High student skateboarding at the Skate Park in Florence, Kentucky. The student is a member of the Eastern High Skate Team, of which Hamilton-Cooper is a sponsor. The team has about a dozen members and has traveled to Florida, Georgia, and several cities throughout Kentucky. She likes this photo because it was the closest shot that she made of a skateboarder performing a trick—so close that Hamilton-Cooper was nearly struck while making the shot. The students on the team are all highly talented and enjoy having their photographs made. Many of them display the photographs on Facebook. Hamilton-Cooper is a member of the Louisville Photography Collective and has a photography portfolio posted at http://www.louisvillephoto.org/profile/TrishaHamiltonCooper and at http://anthemgirl.deviantart.com/.

Perry took this photo on Easter Sunday while visiting a family farm in Colesburg, which is in Hardin County. Perry’s photograph captures the candid moment when her 11-year-old son, Evan, was approached by a horse. This was the first time he had been so close to a horse. The wind blows Evan’s hair and helps accentuate his obvious shock and surprise. Perry took many photos that day that turned out well with the soft spring colors, including the green grass. Perry shared the photo with her mother, Trunnell Elementary teaching assistant Rita Brian, who encouraged her to submit the photo in the contest.

Wurfel has spent much of the last two decades along the sidelines of her daughter’s soccer matches. Wurfel’s daughter plays soccer for St. Catharine College near Springfield, Kentucky, and Wurfel took this photograph in September while watching the men’s team play a game against the University of the Cumberlands, which is located in Williamsburg, Kentucky. Soccer players must wear uniforms but often express their personalities with their choices in footwear, Wurfel says. The St. Catharine player is wearing yellow shoes. Wurfel enjoys the photograph’s colors and the expressions of the men. Wurfel often makes photographs of students at Fern Creek to distribute as gifts, and she creates photo collages of school events that are displayed in the school.