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Presented by The Appalachian State University Outdoor Programs in partnership with The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition provides both amateur and professional photographers the opportunity to showcase their interpretation of the unique character, people, places, and pursuits that distinguish the Southern Appalachians. AMPC is made possible through the sponsorship of Virtual Blue Ridge, the premier online resource for the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Mast General Store. AMPC has grown into one of the most prestigious regional photography competitions welcoming photographers from across the country.

AMPC was created as part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour weekend in Boone, NC. The Banff Film Festival showcases films from all over the globe highlighting mountain culture. The AMPC is a way for our community to interact, in a very personal level through photography, with new aspects of our beloved Southern Appalachian region. It is a great ‘local to global festival’ on mountain culture every spring, right here in Boone.

12th ampc Jurors

Todd Bush

Mary Anne Redding

Brian Bookwalter

Each year AMPC organizers select a panel of professional photographers who’s photographic backgrounds vary considerably from fine art to photojournalism.

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Curator of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, photographer, author.

Boone, NC

Photographer, owner Bookwalter Photography LLC, teacher Appalachian

State Technology Department Boone, NC

Photographer, teacher, author.Banner Elk, NC

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Award Catagories The jurors for the 12th AMPC selected 42 images were selected as finalists from over 1,000 entries. These finalists will be on exhibition and awards will be given in 8 separate categories. These catagories include:

ADVENTUREImagery depicting mountain sports, i.e. climbing, kayaking, mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, etc… The winner will receive a $250 gift certificate from the Mast General Store.

FLORA/FAUNA Imagery of plants and animals common to the Southern Appalachians. The winner will receive a $250 gift certificate from the Mast General Store.

OUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT Imagery documenting environmental concerns in Central and Southern Appalachia. Photographers submitting images to this category include a paragraph explaining where the image was taken and the environmental impact presented. The winner receives $250 from Appalachian Voices and a $250 gift certificate for the Mast General Store.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY- Beyond the Blacktop This year’s Blue Ridge Parkway Category theme is Beyond the Blacktop, sponsored by the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. Photographers are challenged to capture a sense of place, leading viewers to not only discover the views and vistas but also the Parkway’s connection to culture and history, natural resources, and recreational activities. The winning image in this category will receive a $250 cash award from the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and a $250 gift certificate for outdoor gear.

CULTURE Imagery depicting the people, their customs, traditions, architecture, and ways of life unique to the Southern Appalachian region. The winner will receive a $250 gift certificate from the Mast General Store.

LANDSCAPE Imagery capturing the rich diversity and natural beauty of the Southern Appalachian region. The winner will receive a $250 gift certificate from the Mast General Store.

Awards are also given for BEST IN SHOW, selected by the jurors, the winner receives $1,000 furnished through proceeds and sponsor contributions, and

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD selected by you, the winner receives $350 cash award furnished by Footsloggers Outdoor and Travel Outfitters.

Please visit the kiosk in the gallery or www.appmtnphotocomp.org to place your vote.

Just Bee, Amanda Prince10th AMPC Winner Flora/Fauna

Looking Glass Rock Sunrise, Kenneth Voltz10th AMPC Winner People’s Choice Award

Lucy’s Perfect Day, Eric Heistand10th AMPC Winner Adventure

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March 6- June 6, 2015 Mezzanine Gallery

Hours Tuesday - Thursday & Saturday: 10am-6pm

Friday: 12pm-8pm

Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition

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Exhibition Listing Bailey WinecoffToucan Brandon2014NFS

David VanderlaanKayaker2014$282

Kristian JacksonPowder Hounds 2014NFS

Ben Keys Jr.Chuting (Bald River Falls, TN)Date Unknown $219

Lynn WillisThe Classic High Country Ride (Lynn Cove Viaduct)2014$400

Tommy PenickHighland Bouldering (Grayson Highlands, VA)Date Unknown $469

William MauneyAt the Start 2014$1,249

Adventure Derek Cernak Pipestem Friends2015$157

Drew Senter Mirror Image CubsDate Unknown $300

Frederica Georgia Gotta Goat, (Ashe County, NC)2012$300

Josh StammTerraced (Smokie Mountains, TN)2014$1,125

Kelly Clampitt Floating Wood Frogs2014$313

Spencer Black Searching for Love (Brevard, NC)2013NFS

Victor Ellison Tranquility (Blowing Rock, NC)2014$150

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Our Ecological fOotprint

Houck MedfordNC DOT Disaster at Deep Gap- One2014NFS

In 2003, the widening of US Highway 421 from Winston-Salem to Boone, NC and its realignment with the Blue Ridge Parkway at Deep Gap was completed. The North Carolina DOT, unfortunately, did not make adequate allowances for managing the water runoff

at the highway’s boundary intersection with Critcher Farms. Over the last 10 years and continuing today, this once pastoral landscape has eroded into a chasm of canyon proportions – leaving the land damaged almost beyond repair. This photograph is a long exposure panorama of existing conditions.

William MauneyThe Table Rock Fire Star Trails2013$2,459

Campers accidentally started The Table Rock Wildfire. This image is composed of 198 individual photographs layered to show comet like star trails as smoke and fire engulf the gorge below. November 14th 2013.

Kathryn GrevenDying Giants20NFS

Eastern hemlock trees are some of the largest and most common trees in the Great Smoky Mountains. Hemlocks play an ecologically vital role in cooling mountain streams and providing habitat for many other species. Unfortunately, these trees are under attack from a non-native insect called the hemlock woolly adelgid

(Adelges tsugae). Without successful intervention, the hemlock woolly adelgid is likely to kill most of the hemlock trees in the park.

Kristian Jackson The Spokesman 2014NFS

Woody Keen standing in a clear cut near the Kid’s Trail at Dupont State Recreational Forest. Woody’s outdoor career, which includes organizing to protect Dupont State Recreational Forest from private housing development, was

emboldened when he witnessed the reality of clear cutting on USFS land in the 1980s. After starting his outdoor career on the manufacturing side (he launched Misty Mountain Threadworks), he has become one of the most outspoken leaders of sustainable trails and recreation in the nation.

Photographs in this catagory are images documenting environmental concerns in Central and Southern Appalachia.

Catherine HopkinsSlope Sliding Away2013$220

According to the North Carolina Geological Survey, some 300 landslides were documented in western NC during the record rainfall in the first seven months of 2013. The vast majority of those slope failures involved slopes altered by development and mobilized into damaging debris flows. Due largely to steep

slope development, Watauga County leads the state in the number of known slides. It was only after our landslide that I learned that our home had been flagged on a high-risk landslide site, mapped by State Geologists before their funding was cut. In our case, the final slide trigger was likely the blockage of drainage ditches up above that redirected storm water over a weakened slope.

Lynn WillisLethal and Leveled2014$400

A lone cemetery is now an island in the sky. Many individual graves in West Virginia have been pushed down the mountain along with the “overburden.” This cemetery now sits alone on a knoll amidst the destruction of open mines and catchment basins with thin

liners. This is a typical aerial view seen when flying over the West Virginia mountains. The topsoil gets pushed down into the valleys covering streams and then the land is blasted to get to the coal seams. The remaining coal industry “top soil” that is supposed to be replaced gets sprayed with Hydro-Seed and is reminiscent to Rocky Mountain talus slopes and scree fields. Mountaintop Removal coal extraction leads to poisoned water and high cancer rates in some of these rural communities. Flight courtesy of SouthWings

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This year’s theme is Beyond the Blacktop. Photographs in this catagory are images exploring the views and vista of the Blue Ride Parkway beyond the road, beyond the overlook, and into beauty that connect us to the Parkway.

Blue Ridge Parkway- Beyond the Blacktop

Charles Johnson Taking in the View near Moses Cone Manor2014$750

Dianne Sherrill Coming Down “The Lump” Hill (Walsh, NC)2014$375

Donna Harris Flat Top Trail Tunnel2014NFS

Mark VanDyke Blue Ridge Parkway Post & Stake Fencing2013$250

Sharon Canter Winter’s Eve at the Mill (Dan, VA)2010$357

Lynn Willis Linville River Flooding from Plunge Basin - MP 3162013$400

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Alan R ClarkGone but not Forgotten2014NFS

Chuck AlmarezMan of Steel (Gate, VA)2013$619

James K. Fay Hungry Hungry Holstein (Buck Cooper Farm, NC)2010$344

Kelly ClampittDawg in Charge (Lansing, NC)2012$469

Ken BarrettRed Barn (Blue Ridge Parkway, NC)2014$125

Matthew Irvin Valle Crucis Pumpkins (Valle Crucis, NC)2015NFS

Steven Tweed Cornbread & Milk 2014$1,565

Victor EllisonTime Capsule (Sugar Grove, NC)2014$150

Culture Catherine Hopkins Appalachian Storm Surge (Trash Can Falls, NC)2013$340

Daniel Burleson Merging Seasons (Fork Mountain, NC)Date Unknown$874

Deborah Scannell Ice Chaos (Looking Glass Falls, NC)2014$438

Kathrun GrevenThru the Mist 2014NFS

Mickey C. MotenFoggy Bottom Pumpkin Patch (Valle Crucis, NC)2014NFS

Mickey C. MotenCrabtree Falls NC2014NFS

Robert H. Clark Morning on the Ridge (Rouch Ridge, NC)Date Unknown $469

Tim Williams Least Resistance (Pisgah National Forest, NC.)2015$325

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