Rod Baakkonen

Placed 79^th in the challenge. We missed totality, as it rained on us lightly at that point. It cleared off and this photo is just after totality. We had clear sky 20 minutes before totality and just after. Guess I will have to make it to 2024 to get totality.

Placed 51^st in the challenge. The nest is in a cup holder on a table on a dock over a lake. It is amazing that mom and 3 babies survived and thrived here. If the parents thought you were a threat, they dive bombed you off the dock.

Placed 16^th in the challenge. U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis

Placed 66^th in the challenge. Loon family feeding their 2 young babies.

Placed 30^th in the challenge.

Placed 30^th in the challenge. The nest is in a cup holder on a table on a dock over a lake.

Placed 28^th in the challenge. Every year we have a boat parade on the lake. And the people that don't participate in the parade sit/stand on their docks.

Placed 58^th in the challenge. It was amazing to watch the dragonfly capture the grasshopper. I would think that the grasshopper weighs twice what the dragonfly does. Somehow it flew around with it and landed on a tree branch where I got this shot.

I would like to limit the image to a crop of the lower right corner that gets the bird shadow and small amount of the background mountains for depth.  I don't think I would even have the bird in ...

Placed 67^th in the challenge. We must have had 75 of them on the ice at one point

Placed 12^th in the challenge. I think this was a double to the wall

Placed 12^th in the challenge. Car show in Port Angeles Washing ton

Placed 85^th in the challenge. This mother Turkey raised a flock of 5 young ones in the flower planter of our 6 story office building. I guess she did not have to worry about predators harming her flock in the middle of an office complex in a busy suburban area.

Placed 38^th in the challenge. Spring morning and everything was green

Placed 39^th in the challenge. Driving on my way to work in the morning Fog

Placed 16^th in the challenge. Float in the Hollidazzle Holiday Parade in Minneapolis

Placed 82^nd in the challenge. This was the lighting in a friends bathroom for a Christmas party. Had to grab my camera and take a photo. I loved the light.

The music seemed very appropriate to me. The whole video was excellent in my opinion.