I feel very honored to have won the Grand Prize in the Ludington Area Center for the Arts online contest! The photo is called “Frozen motion.”

I shot this photo back in November of 2010 in downtown Lowell. I went downwhich processes area farmer’s grains into flour, there is a railroad spur and a parking lot. In that vacant lot there were some scattered puddles of ice and leaves blowing around. It is there that I came across several leaves frozen into the ice.

This image in particular was striking as it looks as if the wind itself has left its prints in the ice. It reminded me a bit of how a cartoonist would indicate an object is moving in the pane. The lines create the illusion of motion. That, of course, is the irony with this image. The ice indicates motion–but the leave is as stuck in place as it can be.

Here are some other shots I took that afternoon:

03/07/2011: My friends at the High Calling Focus blog jut published an interview with me entitled A Winning Photograph.