2024 Kentucky Living Photo Contest winners
The 2024 Kentucky Living Photo Contest garnered 2,462 entries in five categories—Aerial, Animals, Kentucky Travels, Nature and People. Thanks to all who shared their photos with us, and congratulations to our featured winners.
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AERIAL 1ST PLACE: Steve Griggs
Merchant vessels Taylor Marie and L. Dale Manns make their way upriver past South Shore. “A lot of Kentucky men and women make their living on the river,” Griggs says.
AERIAL 2ND PLACE: Melissa Burkhardt
The best way to see Seventy Six Falls in Clinton County is by boat or by drone, says Burkhardt, who used her eyes in the sky to capture this shot.
AERIAL 3RD PLACE: Florian Zilisch
“You can smell the bourbon in this image,” says Zilisch, who took the photo of the Jim Beam Booker Noe plant from a paraglider.
ANIMALS 1ST PLACE: Tammy Hyatt
A beautiful spring day and pond full of cherry blossoms could mean only one thing, Hyatt says. “We just had to let our ducks take a swim. It was a day to remember.”
ANIMALS 2ND PLACE: Olivia Earls
Nala, a Nigerian dwarf triplet, rests comfortably under her mom, Sugar.
ANIMALS 3RD PLACE: Krystal Sharp
Who said they have to fight like cats and dogs? Archie, left, and Wednesday get along just fine.
KENTUCKY TRAVELS 1ST PLACE: Justin Miller
The Shain Young & Co. store in Pine Knob was built by Honus Shain as a tribute to the country stores that once served the area.
KENTUCKY TRAVELS 2ND PLACE: Tommy Lopez
A Golden Age contestant participates in the Trail of Tears Intertribal Pow Wow in Hopkinsville.
KENTUCKY TRAVELS 3RD PLACE: Rey Gonzalez
The Kentucky Theatre illuminates Main Street on New Year’s Day 2024.
NATURE 1ST PLACE: Wayne Clause
After 21 days of development, a new honey bee emerges from its sealed brood cell in a Union beehive.
NATURE 2ND PLACE: Billy Yarosh
Sunlight glints through the Copperas Creek ravine in the Daniel Boone National Forest.
NATURE 3RD PLACE: Eddie Atherton
Dogwood buds are sheathed in ice at Atherton’s home in Owensboro.
PEOPLE 1ST PLACE: Dillon Cain
Cain met Philip Manga, shown, while doing street photography in Lexington and captured this spur-of-the-moment shot in front of a mural of Frida Kahlo.
PEOPLE 2ND PLACE: Jamie Gabbard
Weston Gabbard plays with a pair of baby rabbits discovered in Owsley County.
PEOPLE 3RD PLACE: Makayla Neighbors
Ivy Rae loves her chickens, says mom, Makayla Neighbors, so the coop was a perfect setting for her 18-month photos.
