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Arboretum Announces Juried Photo Show Winners

Chanhassen, MN (Dec. 14, 2011) - The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is pleased to present "Explore, Experience, Remember," the fifth annual juried show and sale of works by members of the Arboretum Photographers Society, running Jan. 6-May 27, 2012, in the Oswald Visitor Center's Restaurant Gallery.

The show features 36 nature images captured at the Arboretum and selected from 100-plus photos submitted by society members.  Visitors can feast their eyes on butterflies in mid-flight, velvety rose blossoms, misty sunrises and more.  Photographs will be available for sale. Here's a listing of winners in various categories (images within each category are not ranked).

Best of Show

• Michael Borg, Eden Prairie - "Bright Beams" 
• Patricia Malcolm, Brooklyn Park - "Roses"
• Christopher Hall, Maple Plain - "Crabapples in February Fog"

Gold

• Don Olson, Watertown - "Steelroots Within Steelroots"
• Ken Evans, Maple Grove  - "Backs to the Wind"
• Michael Borg, Eden Prairie - "The Path"

Silver

• Mark Weber, Mankato - "Cozy Corner"

Bronze

• Patricia Malcolm, Brooklyn Park - "Peach Bud"
• Don Olson, Watertown - "In Flight"
• Karen Blenker, Chanhassen - "Bluebird in Spring"
• Tracy Ann Walsh, Maple Grove - "Tulips"
• Christopher Hall, Maple Plain - "Tulips in the Pink"
• Pat Witherow, Eden Prairie - "Compass Prairie"

Honorable Mention

• Jeff Aspenwall, Prior Lake - "Wonderment in Fog"                                                      
• Todd Mulvihill, Shakopee - "Snowy Solitude" & "Daffodil Dream"
• Michael Borg, Eden Prairie - "A Single Ray of Light" &  "Winter Guardian"
• Roger Smallbeck, Chanhassen - "Cloistered Garden Arch"
• Roger Pavelle, Hopkins - "Mom and Child"
• Gayle Fleming, Minneapolis - Untitled
• Peter Klose, Minnetonka - "Hosta- ? Love Pat"
• Kathy Aspenwall, Prior Lake - "The Softer Side of Steel"
• Maggi Keith, Minneapolis - "The Lonely Bench"
• Thomas Carlson, Maple Grove - "Prairie Highlands"
• Craig Isaacson, Eden Prairie - "Birch Grove" and "Five Trunks"
• Vienna Volante, Bloomington - "Bench Under Ginkgo Tree"
• Henry Roberts, Duluth- "Blue Iris ??Sixteen Candles"
• Lester Hughes-Seamans, Tonka Bay - "In the Forest"
• Kristy Walker, Excelsior- "Ascent"
• Dianne Jandt, Apple Valley - "Tulips Aglow" and "Picture Perfect"
• John S. Maciejny, Maple Grove- "Rare Orchid"
• Patricia Malcolm, Brooklyn Park - "Coneflower"
• Pat Witherow, Eden Prairie - "White Asian Lily"

 The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, comprising 1,137acres, is located in Chanhassen, Minn., on State Hwy 5, nine miles west of the intersection with I-494. The largest public garden in the Upper Midwest, the Arboretum is part of the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Science.    -The End-