These are the winning photographs from our fall 2008 GEO photo contest. Our office holds this contest each semester to give students who have just returned from their study away destinations a chance to share their experience with the campus community.

The contest consists of four categories: Academics, Landscape, KSC Students Away, and Culture. Cash prizes of $50 are awarded to the category winners and a $100 cash prize goes to the grand prize winner.

Photos are displayed and voted on in the Lloyd P. Young Student Center first floor. Voting is open to anyone with or without KSC affiliation and lasts for a week before the votes are tallied and posted. After the contest the photos are placed in a long term display case on the Student Center third floor.

Grand Prize and winner of $100 is Tessa Shea with her photo "Famous Gondola" in the Culture category.

"In Venice, I caught a perfect picture of the very gondola that I got to ride in."

Landscape/Scenery winner $50 is Mike Avery with "View from Hut."

"This was a view along a tram on the North Island, the Tongariro Northern Circuit. I had this beautiful sight in front of me and behind me was a view of Mt. Narahoe (Mt. Doom)." (New Zealand)

Emily Dixon won $50 in the Academics Category with her Photo "Masks".

"I learned how to take pictures like this in my photography class in California."

Joelle Tartaglio won $50 for Culture Category photo "Desert Dress-up."

Jon Paquette's photo "Moonlight" was our $50 KSC Students Away Category winner.

"A night photo taken at Red Rocks Beach of a friend eclipsing the moonlight." (New Zealand)