***Announcing the Winners of the July Photo Contest: "Public Transportation, Land, Sea, or Air"***

[Eko]

There were so many good pictures submitted.
Here are the winners of our July 2025 seasonal contest. The theme is "Public Transportation, Land, Sea, or Air"

1. Wilderness Run By Grumpy Old Guy


2. Venice Transit Authority By bif


3. Nickel Plate Road 765 on the point of the "Erie Limited" passenger train, Buffalo, NY By Hiawatha Pete


Grumpy wins!!!!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. Congratulations Grumpy

All the photos were great. It was hard to choose one.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

15. Thank you so much!

[Solly Mack]

2. Congrats all!

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Congratulations, GrumpyOldGuy!

All the top three are beautiful!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

16. Thank you Diamond Dog!

[2naSalit]

4. Yay! Congrats!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Congrats to the Winners! These are amazing photos!

And congratulations, my dear Eko, on a contest well run!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

17. Eko did a great job.

Now they're stuck! They'll be doing it again.

[Hiawatha Pete]

28. Thanks CaliforniaPeggy!

[LoisB]

6. Congratulations Grumpy Old Guy, bif, and Hiawatha Pete. All the submissions were great.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

18. Thank you!

[bif]

26. Thank you so much!

[Hiawatha Pete]

27. Thank you!

[JMCKUSICK]

7. Congratulations Grumpy Old Guy

What a great shot.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

19. Thank you very much!

Please see my post below. I would like to know what you think.

[blogslug]

8. Congratulations!

📷

[Mira]

9. Spectacular lineup and congratulations

The winners are simply stellar. They are diverse and moving. I loved those photos.
I could sing a song for each of the three.

I also applaud all who entered.
And congratulations to Eko the host, for his first and successful time running a contest. It is not an easy thing to do.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

12. Congratulations to you Mira

You know how I feel about your photo. I voted for it.

[Mira]

30. Thanks and a little history

The memory of this particular camp is extreme. We stumbled upon it on a road in former East Germany and spent a gruesome afternoon there.
It is so important to me to keep in mind that this is very recent past . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelbau-Dora_concentration_camp

Sophie Scholl was beheaded half a year before I was born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl_%E2%80%93_The_Final_Days

And my father ran across the nephew of her horrid judge, Roland Freisler, (he caught his last name and asked if they were related), and then successfully invited him to dinner to have a chance to talk to him.

It is tough for me to see what is happening in my beloved America.

[elleng]

10. Terrific!

Union Pacific???

[Grumpy Old Guy]

13. Alaska Railroad

My second entry was taken a few days later on the same line.

[elleng]

21. SPECTACULAR!!!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

22. Thanks dear Ellen!

[calimary]

11. WOW!!! "Wilderness Run By Grumpy Old Guy"!

The word “magnificent” is faint praise indeed.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

20. Aww, thank you so much Calimary!

Please see my post below. I would like to know what you think.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

14. THANK YOU ALL FOR THE KIND WORDS.

Thank you all for your support, and congrats to Eko for running a great contest. My heartiest congratulations to bif and Hiawatha Pete.

And now a few words about my photo. I shot this in 2016 during a nine thousand mile round trip from Los Angeles to Homer, Alaska via the Alaska Highway. The photo was taken along Turnagain Arm, south of Anchorage, on the way to the Kenai Peninsula. It's called Turnagain Arm because, when Captain Cook was exploring there, the water kept getting more and more shallow, and he had to turn "again and again" to avoid running aground. I heard the train coming in the distance and timed the shot to catch the headlights straight on just as it was coming around the bend.

Now I would like your opinion. This is the original image that I shot that day, and it's still one of my favorites. I think it truly portrays the magnificence that is our forty ninth state. However, it's a very wide photograph, and the train is but a tiny speck, which is what I wanted to portray. I know that many of us view the contest entries and vote on our phones, and I didn't think this version of it would work when viewed on a cellphone .I quickly cropped it into a smaller, vertical format to give it impact on both a computer and a phone. What do you think? Did I do the right thing?

Thanks again for your support. I'm taking suggestions for the theme for our next contest.

This is the original image.



For comparison, here is the version that I entered.

[Walleye]

23. Good job excellent cropping, beautiful photo. Congratulations.

they were all so good thank you to everyone who entered

[Callalily]

24. Congrats to all of the winners!

And a big thank you to all who entered the contest. It's always fun to see everyone's interpretation of the theme.

[HAB911]

25. Congrats to everyone!

[Beringia]

29. Congrats Grumpy

[Grumpy Old Guy]

31. Thank you!

[Mousetoescamper]

32. Congratulations Grumpy Old Guy, bif, and Hiawatha Pete!

Thanks for hosting the contest, Eko!

[Hiawatha Pete]

34. Thanks Mousetoescamper!

[a kennedy]

33. Yup, winners all.......congratulations!!!!