{"id":37550,"date":"2025-07-26T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37550\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:31:15","slug":"photo-contest-winners-for-2025-announced-by-lower-loup-nrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37550\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo contest winners for 2025 announced by Lower Loup NRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"show_cbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-Brent-Tinkham20241208_171315-2-1024x478.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-Brent-Tinkham20241208_171315-2-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"Photo contest winners for 2025 announced by Lower Loup NRD\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2nd Place, Brent Tinkham of Ord<\/p>\n<p>ORD \u2013 Winning photographs have been chosen in the Lower Loup NRD\u2019s 2025 Photo Contest, which ran from December 2024 to May 15, 2025. Images depicting wildlife, landscapes, weather phenomena, wildflowers, recreation, architecture, and agriculture were submitted by 24 photographers from the Lower Loup NRD area and across Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Burman of Rockville won first place for his image of a deep blue, cloud-streaked sky reflected in the tranquil waters of the Middle Loup River in Sherman County. He also won third place for his photo of a bee hovering over a poppy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-news-affiliates.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-Brent-Tinkham20241208_171315-2-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2186591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-Brent-Tinkham20241208_171315-2-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"207\"  \/><\/a>2nd Place, Brent Tinkham of Ord<\/p>\n<p>Brent Tinkham of Ord won second place for his landscape image of a prairie scene taken at sunset northeast of Sargent.<\/p>\n<p>Burman\u2019s first place image will be printed, framed, and displayed at the LLNRD headquarters in Ord, replacing the 2024 winning print by Cheryl Albright of Ravenna. After the winning 2026 photo replaces it, Burman will be presented with his winning print.<\/p>\n<p>Both Burman and Tinkham will receive a prize package of Lower Loup NRD logo items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the Sandhills in the western part of the District, and across farmland and pasture to farms in the east \u2013 and with 514 miles of rivers and streams in between \u2013 there are tremendous photo opportunities in the Lower Loup NRD,\u201d said LLNRD Information and Education Coordinator Alan Bartels. \u201cWe hope people will continue exploring the Lower Loup NRD. We look forward to seeing their stunning images when the next photo contest opens later this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-news-affiliates.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-Lawrence-Burman-poppy-and-bee-flying.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2186590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-Lawrence-Burman-poppy-and-bee-flying-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\"  \/><\/a>3rd Place, Lawrence Burman of Rockville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2nd Place, Brent Tinkham of Ord ORD \u2013 Winning photographs have been chosen in the Lower Loup NRD\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-37550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550","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=37550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}