Photo Gallery

featuring images from Scenic Tennessee 's 2005 photo contest

Below are some of the winning submissions from Scenic Tennessee's 2005 photo contest, "Message in the Bottles," as well as a few scenes from the contest reception held at the Frist Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville in November 2005. To see all of the winning photos, go to www.scenictennessee.org.

	Madeline Rose, a 5th grader at Battle Academy in Chattanooga, took first place in the middle school division for her shot of geese foraging among the container litter at a lake in Soddy Daisy.
Mark C. Campen, education and membership director of the Tennessee Izaak Walton League, won first place in the adult division for capturing this nasty (but colorful!) cascade of beverage containers spilling into Third Creek in Knoxville.
	Gracie Young, 4th grader at Edmondson Elementary School in Brentwood (shown here with her family at the Frist reception), took second place in the middle-school division with her image of a frog resting on a lily pad. A flattened plastic bottle is part of what Gracie calls "the nursery."
Ronn Duff, Jr., of Tazewell won third place in the adult division with this eye-catching image of Tennessee trash. Lots of valuable aluminum here!
	Another neat black-&-white image, this of an abandoned load of trash on a city street, came from Allie Clarke, a senior at Chattanooga Christian School. Allie's image, a favorite with the judges, won first place in the senior high category.
Floating containers and other debris on McKellar Lake in Memphis. This photo by James Baker won second place (adult division) in the 2005 photo contest.
	Here's another of James Baker's photos, taken along Manassas Road at I-240, Memphis. James is chair of the container deposit legislative committee of the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club. James in particular and the Sierra Club in general have been major players in Tennessee's push for a bottle bill.
Gary Barrigar, a member of the Overmountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited in Elizabethton, sent this 2005 photo as part of "X Marks the Spot," our ongoing separated litter pickup and survey. Ron Harrington (left), Gary (center) and Richard Brosmore picked up 21 bags of litter at the TWRA put-in and approach road on the Watauga River in Carter County. Of the total, 13 bags (61.9 percent) were bottles and cans.
	Chad Comer of Red Boiling Springs lives near two bars, and every few months he picks up "nothing but beer bottles." His latest cleanup yielded 30 bags of litter, 22 of them containers.
In March 2006, these Bolton and Arlington high school students picked up IH Park in Lakeland (near Memphis). The white bags are containers; the black bags are everything else.