{"id":247309,"date":"2025-10-24T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247309\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:16:12","slug":"area-winners-in-ranchland-trust-of-kansas-annual-photo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247309\/","title":{"rendered":"Area winners in Ranchland Trust of Kansas annual photo contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761142032524.png\" alt=\"Grand prize winner by Bruce Hogle\"\/>Grand prize winner by Bruce Hogle<\/p>\n<p>Ranchland Trust of Kansas<\/p>\n<p>TOPEKA \u2014 Winners have been announced for the 14th annual Ranchland Trust of Kansas\u00a0(RTK) photography contest. Photographers of all ages submitted photos that showcase\u00a0the mission of RTK, \u201cTo preserve Kansas\u2019 ranching heritage and open spaces for future\u00a0generations through the conservation of working landscapes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 140 photographs were entered by 40 talented photographers in this\u00a0year&#8217;s photography contest.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce L. Hogle of Leawood was the grand prize winner in this year\u2019s contest.\u00a0The winning image was taken at a controlled burn at the Flying W Ranch in the Flint Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Category winners include:<\/p>\n<p>Landscape \u2013 Amanda Buus Thomsen, Kiowa;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761141702240.png\" alt=\"Livestock winner by Holly Mettling, Bogue\"\/>Livestock winner by Holly Mettling, Bogue<\/p>\n<p>Livestock \u2013 Holly Mettling, Bogue; <\/p>\n<p>People \u2013 Sheridan Wimmer-Doyle, Manhattan;<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise or Sunset \u2013 Scott Bean, Manhattan; <\/p>\n<p>Wildlife \u2013 Alan Tajchman, Manhattan;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761141776855.png\" alt=\"Kansas Livestock Association Member winner by Shea Baird, Levant\"\/>Kansas Livestock Association Member winner by Shea Baird, Levant<\/p>\n<p>KLA Member \u2013 Shea Baird, Levant; <\/p>\n<p>Youth \u2013 Hadley Gfeller, Junction City; <\/p>\n<p>Honorable Mention \u2013 Chelsea Weber, Cedar Point.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas native and National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson was the\u00a0special guest judge this year. L\u2019image is the exclusive sponsor of the contest. The locally\u00a0owned photo printing and picture framing store in Wichita has been in business for\u00a0more than 25 years, specializing in their ready-to-hang plaque mount.<\/p>\n<p> Prizes are\u00a0awarded to the top 10 winning photographers. All winning entries can be viewed on\u00a0RTK\u2019s Facebook page or website <a href=\"https:\/\/ranchlandtrustofkansas.org\/rtk-photo-contest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ranchlandtrustofkansas.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand prize winner by Bruce Hogle Ranchland Trust of Kansas TOPEKA \u2014 Winners have been announced for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-247309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}