For 30 years, New Times Media Group has been asking Central Coast photographers to send their best moments our way. Animal moments, people moments, floral moments, and more. This year, they submitted 333 images for our annual Winning Images contest, which our judges narrowed down to the top three in each of eight categories and […]
Winning Images
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Winning Images 2024
Local photographers share their view of the world for our annual photography contest
Amateur photographers from across the Central Coast entered our annual Winning Images photo contest, sharing their carefully crafted view of the world with us. Our judges narrowed down the entries to three winners in each category and an honorable mention based on the composition and uniqueness of each photo, among other qualities. Catch this year’s […]
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Winning Images 2023
Feast your eyes on the people, places, animals, and more captured in this year’s photography contest
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then we’ve got 32,000 beautiful, captivating, intimate, and skillfully wrought “words” for you this week. For our annual Winning Images photography contest, intrepid photographers of all ages got behind their lenses to capture moments of drama, peace, and light in landscapes, animals, people, and everything in between. Give yourself plenty of time to feast your eyes on these incredible photographs.
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28th Annual “Winning Images” Photography Contest
A photograph can capture a moment in a way that words simply can’t. Since 1994, New Times Media Group has invited local photographers to show us the moments they’ve captured in our annual Winning Images photography contest. There are eight categories: Animals, Flora, Land/Seascapes, People, Travel, Open, In Motion, and Youth. See more detailed rules […]
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Winning Images 2022
Depth of field, light, composure, and subject matter all matter when it comes to the aesthetic qualities of a photograph. The Central Coast photographers who took home awards in this year’s Winning Images contest nailed all of those things. Out of the more than 400 digital photos submitted in 2022, 32 made the cut. See […]
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Winning Images 2021
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then we’ve got 32,000 beautiful, captivating, intimate, and skillfully wrought “words” for you this week. We’re pleased to present the top photos from this year’s Winning Images annual photography contest. Despite pandemic shutdowns, these intrepid photographers of all ages got behind their lenses to capture moments of […]
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Winning Images 2020
The Sun’s annual Winning Images photo contest went all-virtual this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And with that came hundreds more entries than last year. Check out the winners.
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Winning Images 2019
Give us the most poignant, interesting image of something we have never seen before. That’s what we ask Central Coast photographers to submit to us every year in our annual Winning Images contest. Because a photograph can captures a moment as unique as the individual who took it. Photographs can make you feel a certain […]
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Winning Images 2018
See the people, places, and more that won top honors in our annual photography contest.
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Snapshots of light
Wielding a camera—whether digital or film—is all about capturing light. The rays of sun as it sets. The pops of brightness that midday brings. The soft glow of a cloudy day. For 20 years, the New Times Media Group has invited local photographers to show us the way they see the light of day or […]
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Lens flair: Check out the results of Winning Images 2014
Winning Images began at our sister paper, New Times, in 1994, and the contest has been inviting local photographers to participate for 19 years now. It eventually expanded to include this paper, the Sun—and this batch of images should remind everyone involved of why this annual competition has been such an enduring and growing presence […]