Celebrating Community: 2024 Photo Contest Winners Showcase
Over 500 photos were submitted to Innovia Foundation’s fifth annual Photo Contest: Celebrating Community. We are immensely grateful for the time and talent each photographer invested in capturing the beauty and spirit of our communities. A full showcase of the winning images is displayed below.
Winning Categories:Â
- Arts and Culture
- Community
- Education
- Landscapes
- Wildlife
- People
- Nonprofit Mission in ActionÂ
- Youth Category (Ages 0-17)
First Place Overall Winner: "Winchester Days"
Photographer: Raelyn Williams
Arts and Culture Category Winners
FIRST: “The Classic Car”
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Photographer: Mason Deacon
SECOND: “Hold On Cowboy”
Grangeville, ID
Photographer: Raelyn Williams
THIRD: “Innovia at the Ritz Theater”
Ritzville, WA
Photographer: Kyle Niehenke
HONORABLE MENTION: “Chris Janson”
Sandpoint, ID
Photographer: Racheal Baker
Community Category Winners
FIRST: “Winchester Days”
Winchester, ID
Photographer: Raelyn Williams
SECOND: “Brothers”
Spokane, WA
Photographer: Myers Gorrell
THIRD: “Family Dance”
Festival at Sandpoint, Sandpoint, ID
Photographer: Racheal Baker
HONORABLE MENTION: “Blue Highway Performs on the Bennett Boxcar Stage”
Mullan, ID
Photographer: Bob Behal
Education Category Winners
FIRST: “Go, Fight, Win”
Gonzaga Preparatory School, Spokane, WA
Photographer: Matthew Boyle
SECOND: “Polar Express Engineer School Trainee”
Potlatch, ID
Photographer: Bob Behal
THIRD: “Gardening”
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Photographer: Katrina Floyd
HONORABLE MENTION: “School Day in 1913”
1912 Center Pen & Primer Program in the Historic Classroom, Moscow, ID
Photographer: Jenny Kostroff
Landscapes Category Winners
FIRST: “Barn in Green Bluff”
Green Bluff, WA
Photographer: Greg Bales
SECOND: “Vista House”
Spokane, WA
Photographer: Lindsey Bangsberg
THIRD: “Spalding Park Railroad Bridge”
Lapwai, ID
Photographer: Jessie Spears
HONORABLE MENTION: “North-ish Lights”
Rosalia, WA
Photographer: John Wehrer
HONORABLE MENTION: “Calm Before the Storm”
Spokane, WA
Photographer: Jacqui Barney
Wildlife Category Winners
FIRST: “Pelican”
Swallows Nest Parl, Clarkston, WA
Photographer: Jessie Spears
SECOND: “Stubby Sue the cow”
Worley, ID
Photographer: Taylar Millard
THIRD: “Who?”
Lewiston, ID
Photographer: Jessie Spears
HONORABLE MENTION: “Chirpy”
Spokane, WA
Photographer: Nancy Taylor-Babcock
People Category Winners
FIRST: “Happy Birthday”
Grangeville, ID
Photographer: Lorie Palmer
SECOND: “First Kayak Ride”
Lake Thomas, Colville, WA
Photographer: Joanie Christian
THIRD: “Kiss and Release”
Crab Creek, Harrington, WA
Photographer: Julia Jacobsen
HONORABLE MENTION: “Life is a field, so farm it!”
Harrington, WA
Photographer: Julia Jacobsen
Nonprofit Mission in Action Category Winners
FIRST: “Rick Finds Hope”
Union Gospel Mission’s Men’s Shelter, Spokane, WA
Photographer: Jessica Morgan
SECOND: “Aireal’s Bubbles”
Union Gospel Mission’s Women’s Recovery, Spokane, WA
Photographer: Jessica Morgan
THIRD: “Serving the Community at the Mobile Market”
Rathdrum, ID
Photographer: Brandon Vasquez
HONORABLE MENTION: “We Got This!”
Spokane, WA
Photographer: Brian Newberry
HONORABLE MENTION: “Shelter Playground Love”
Union Gospel Mission’s Women’s Recovery, Spokane, WA
Photographer: Jessica Morgan
HONORABLE MENTION: “Learning in the Kitchen”
Spokane, WA
Photographer: Brandon Vasquez
Youth Category Winners
FIRST: “Warning”
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Photographer: Judson Knoll
SECOND: “Teamwork”
Moscow, ID
Photographer: Ainsley Sievers
THIRD: “Circle of Life”
Spokane, WA