COLSA Photo Contest (2022)

COLSA Photo Contest (2022)

COLSA Photo Contest 2022

  The votes are in!

Congratulations to all the participants in this year's COLSA Photo Contest! Check out the three most voted on submissions below.

  • A photo of oyster mushrooms growing on the ground.

      First Place - Congratulations!

    Photographer: Chris Neefus
    Caption: Oyster mushroom grown by students in BIOL752 New England Mushrooms.

  • A photo of a mushroom, white, the stem growing off the side of a maple tree.

      Second Place - Congratulations!

    Photographer: Jen Weimer '05
    Caption: Volvariella bombycina on Sugar Maple in NH. I’m very passionate about trees and forest health.

  • A photo of a field, pond in the middle, steam rising off and the sun peaking over the clouds in the background. The sky is blue with wisps of clouds.

      Third Place - Congratulations!

    Photographer: Daniel Ehrsam '24
    Caption: This is a photo of the pond near Cow Palace Creamery near the intersection of Routes 125 and 155A. Every morning on my commute to UNH I drive past this area, and it always has a serene feeling. Recently with the cold mornings, the pond has had fog coming off of it, giving an ethereal look to the area. It has a calming effect and makes my drive that much more enjoyable.

How to vote:

  • Step 1: Click on each photo to view the photo and read the photographer-provided caption. You can use the arrows in the lower right corner to scroll through the submissions.
  • Step 2: Note the number of your top 3 favorite photos (the number is located at the start of each photo caption).
  • Step 3: Fill out this form with the number of your top 3 favorite photos. Don't forget to hit "Submit"!
    • Please, just one submission per person!  
  • Step 4: Wait to see who wins! Check back on this webpage on Nov. 17 to learn which photos got the most the votes!

Voting has now closed!

Choose from one of the photos below!

A rainbow shows of the Organic Dairy Farm at UNH. Photo showing a sunset over water and trees with clouds mirrored in the water A photo of bee hanging out in a large bright yellow flower. A photo of the sun ringed by cloud cover. A photo of the sun shining through snow-covered trees with a snow-covered yard and fence. A photo of a brilliant sunset with orange, red, purple across the sky. A mountaintop view through the trees. A photo of a young deer lounging in the grass next to conifer trees. A seedpod split in thirds with small, brown, oval-shaped seeds in all three sections. A brilliant blue bird in the background, in the foreground a mottled grayish-bluish bird, both standing a bird feeder pole. A beautiful sunset reflected in waters; dark treeline visible in the background. A person's legs and feet (wearing blue pants) visible in the foreground, their shadow outstretched before them in crystal-clear waters. A woodpecker attached to a vertical tree and ringed by bright yellow maple flowers. Woodpecker is small, black and white. A photo of sunrays peaking through a cloudy skying, illuminating a sailing ship. The suns rays are orangish-yellowish-red and they turn the waters bluish-yellow. A tabby cat, orangish-brown, looking of to the side of the camera with a window in the background. The moon peaking through the clouds at night, illuminating the clouds all around it. A pink flower bud, two smaller buds to either side, with green foliage behind and above the buds. A mushroom, small cilia ringed around the edges of the mushroom, which grows out of a tree section. A black and white photo of a massive gnarled maple tree, it's truck rising up in the foreground and two twisted limbs toward the top of the image. A black and white photo of a tree growing around an old-looking bench, the trunk of the tree seemingly to grow straight through. A sunflare down the center of the photo, within the horizon, with the image split in half horizontally by shoreline. Below is water, above is sky. A sunset photo, the shoreline in the horizontal center of the photo, the water below and sky above. Sky is bluish, purplish, orange, reflecting in the water, turning it yellowish blueish. A lighthouse, its roof red and walls white, sits atop an island in the center of the photo. Cables or power lines stretch through the center of the photo. The island is green with rocky shores in a blue, frothy sea. Fog steams off a marshy looking land, the sun in the top center of the photo, showing bright yellow against a blue-yellow sky and a dark line of hills. A dolphin leaps through blue waters, centered in the frame, splashing water behind it. The top of a humpback whale's mouth, spread open, in the center of the photo, entirely surrounded by blue waters, the horizon of the sky visible near the top of the frame. A whale tail flips in the water, water shooting off the back, in the middle of blue waters. A bright yellow and orange tree, leaves still on it and below it, stands in the center. Red, yellow and orange leaves spread across the lawn, birch tree to the right of the center maple tree and a pine tree to the left. A line of students sit in a green pasture. Some use binoculars to look into the distance. Before them is another field, separated by a fence line and a row of trees to the right and left of the frame. A photo of sailboats in a harbor in the horizontal center of the photo, the sky above them a bluish-pinkish color and reflected in the water below. Hundreds of dark, bat-like shapes fill the frame, crowding around and flapping throughout the image, a line of hills in the distant background. A cow sticks her head through a metal gate, nippling on grass just outside the gate in the dirt. The cow is brown, its face a deep, dark brown. To the right, a line of cows, their heads down feeding in a sightline stretching to the center of the photo. The cows are brown. To the left, a concrete walkway. Trees and a barn in the distant background. A black and white photo of two steam engines, billowing out dark and white smoke and sitting atop two traintracks. A light fish in the center of the photo, surrounded by dark waters. The fish has fins above and below its body. Its light colored and shaped light an arrowhead. A steep cliff face, rocky and stretching to a pinnacle near the top of the frame. Along the top and in the foreground, vegetation grows. Steam rises from pools and streams of water, the water clear and reflecting the rocky shoreline. A brilliant orange and black sunset. Bright orange, yellow globe of a sun toward the top center of the photo makes the sky a deeper orange. The water in the lower third of the frame reflects the sunshine. A boat, silhouetted on the water, sails by. A bumblebee sits atop a purple flower. The bee is black and yellow. A blurred background shows purple. A sunrise, the dark shoreline in the center of the frame. Above, a cloud speckled sky is blue, the clouds dark and white. The clouds and shoreline reflect in the clear waters of a pond or lake below. A man sits in a blue kayak, a small white and brown dog in front of him. The man holds a wooden paddle. The kayak is in a clear lake, trees and green hills in the background. A dark shoreline splits the screen. Above is a sky, purple and blue. Below, the sky and dark shoreline reflect in clear water. A photo of a river or pond, looking out from the shore, with rotten and old logs in the foreground laying out on a rock. In the background, around the water's edges, are tall pine trees and the yellow of the sun shines above. A nighttime photo showing tiny white dots–stars–speckling the sky. Near the bottom is a dark outline of trees and a few small areas of houselights. A clouded area in the vertical center of the photo shows the milky way. A morning scene, the sun rising above the treeline in the background, the sky light blue with swirling clouds. Steam rises of a pond in the direct center of the frame, surrounded by grass covered in frost. A forest scene with a pond in the foreground. Dark green and orange trees in the background with a light brown, grassy shore. The trees and shore reflect in the clear waters. Several docks in the middle of the frame sit atop the water. In the far distance, above 2/3rds of the way up the frame, is a shoreline with clouds along the edges. Brilliant green push with dots of deep blue, light purple and light green berries. Forest foliage is behind the bush. A steel or aluminum pot sits atop a burner. Inside can be seen halved ears of corn. A ladle rests on the pot edge, inside are two bright orange crawfish, looking like small lobster. A frame full of darkish whitish mushrooms, crowded around and sticking out from another, nearly growing atop each other. A beach sunrise or sunset. The shoreline of trees is dark black, above them stripes of orange and yellow and above that a cloud smattered sky. The shoreline, sunset or sunrise colors and the clouds are reflected in a nearly mirrored lake. A end of a yellow kayak sticks out of the frame in a calm, slightly rippled lake. In the distance, hills of fall foliage reflect in the dark waters. A cat's face takes up the entire frame. The cat is dark grey, with stripes of white. It has emerald green eyes and black pupils. It looks off to its right. A photo taken of a sunrise that makes the top half of the frame–showing the sky–deep orange and yellow. In the bottom half of the frame, a field with mist upon it. Two pumpkins sit on a table. Left pumpkin is bright orange and yellow, right smaller pumpkin as a green top and bottom with center yellow stripes. A dirt roadway, fall foliage hanging over the road.