2021 2nd Qtr. Daily Postcard Contest Winner: Gretchen Mills

2021 2nd Quarter Daily Postcard Contest winner Gretchen Mills receives a $100 check Monday in front of the Los Alamos Daily Post newspaper office. She won for her photo of a Fairy Slipper Orchid. Mills stated that she captured the beautiful flower photo with her Samsung tablet. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com
After receiving her $100 check for being selected the 2nd Quarter Daily Postcard Contest winner Monday, Gretchen Mills went to the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) to purchase three volumes of books on the Plants of the Jemez Mountains written by local experts Terry Foxx, Craig Martin and Dorothy Hoard: Plants of the Jemez Mountains: Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Ferns, And Horsetails, Volume, Plants of the Jemez Mountains: Showy Monocots and Common Dicots and Plants of the Jemez Mountains: Sunflower Family Asteraceae. PEEC staff and volunteers display the books Mills purchased with her winnings, from left, Adventure Programs Manager Beth Cortright, Volunteer Michelle Debardeleben and Young Adult Advisory Board PEEC Volunteer Gwendolyn Debardeleben. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com
The winning Daily Postcard for the second quarter of 2021 is ‘Fairy Slipper Orchid’ taken May 26, 2021 on Pajarito Mountain. Photo by Gretchen Mills 

About the Daily Postcard Photography Contest:

Los Alamos residents Robert and Ann Wells established a fund in 2017 at the Los Alamos Arts Council whose purpose is to award a prize of $100 to the photographer who submits the best photograph of the quarter published as a Daily Postcard in the Los Alamos Daily Post newspaper.

“We have been impressed by the steady development of the Los Alamos Daily Post as a comprehensive community news source and have especially enjoyed the variety of photos submitted for publication by local citizens. The photo prize hopefully will motivate even more variety of photos and provide recognition for local photographers, which may be of particular benefit to those considering professional careers,” Robert Wells said at the time.

Robert and Ann Wells asked that a panel of three photographers be chosen, one by the Wells, one by Post staff and one by the Arts Council. The photographers for this first quarter of 2021 award are Ken Hanson, T.K. Thompson and Don Taylor.

Local photographers are encouraged to submit photos for consideration to caclark@ladailypost.com.

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