What a fascinating year our 10th Anniversary has been! The theme of Joy presented some of our most interesting interpretations. One thing is clear, children by far brought the most Joy, with 61 of the nearly 500 pictures submitted being of children! So many of the images brought instant smiles and often giggles as we opened them. Animals, also not surprisingly, were solidly represented with 48 images of fish, fowl, mammals, reptiles and insects being submitted. Images of dogs made up a full third of all animal pictures. There were also 23 images of food, including eating and or cooking with friends or family, 17 images of flowers, and 8 wedding and engagement images.

A fun fact about this year: eight of our 10 judges had a different first place choice, only one of the 16 finalists received two first place votes. Additionally, the People’s Choice top eight images were also among the Judged top eight images.

We would like to thank our guest judges this year Cydney Scott, Photojournalist for BU Today, and Ty Furman Managing Director of the BU Arts Initiative.

This was the first year we have had a People’s Choice voting category and it was a resounding success! Over 1100 of you voted over the course of the week for your favorite photos, and we have heard from a number of you that you eagerly awaited the new bracket each day. We believe a new tradition has begun in our 10^th year.

Without further ado here are the winners:

Winner: Judged Category

Winner: People’s Choice

Finalists