Honorable mentions
Brayden Gish Solano County Farm Bureau
Gish is a full-time student at Woodland Community College, majoring in animal science. He also raises cattle with his father on the family’s Vacaville property. “I have a passion for photography and sometimes when I’m bored, I enjoy going out and taking photos of our cattle,” he says. For this photo of a female Hereford he took in March, he focused only on her eyes and top of her head “to create a more dramatic and intense photo of the cow.” Keith Bettencourt Tulare and Kings County Farm Bureaus Bettencourt of Visalia has been farming for more than 50 years. So, when he saw his 3 1/2-year-old grandson, Zachary, driving his toy tractor next to the family’s garden and carefully loading vegetables into his wagon, the proud grandpa needed to get a picture. “I thought he looked so cute—like a little farmer in his overalls checking his vegetable crop,” Bettencourt says. “Zachary is driving the tractor my wife and I gave our son, his father, Keith Jr., when he was a child.” Bailey Randel Tehama County Farm Bureau Randel’s husband looks after a walnut orchard in Tehama County. The Los Molinos couple were walking through the property in September, a week before harvest, when she looked up and spotted this walnut hanging on a tree. It had a split-open husk, making it look almost like a flower. “It caught my eye that the nut was barely hanging on inside the husk,” she says. Thinking it would be an unusual shot, she was inspired to pull out her phone and take the picture.
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