5th Annual Harvest Photo Contest Entries

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5th Annual Harvest Photo Contest Entries

The image is a man's dirty hands after harvest holding a handful of inshell pecans.

My father's—Joe Thomas—hardworking hands holding some pecans. "Harvesting pecans is something I grew up doing with my dad in Atoka and Bryan County, Oklahoma. We are probably a small operation compared to most, but it still ingrained in me the value of hard work." (Photo by Lindsay Holcomb)

We had so many fantastic entries for our 5th Annual Harvest Photo Contest that we couldn’t help but share them all with you. Participants were able to submit photos from October 15, 2022, to Jan. 11, 2023. The winning photo—featured at the top of this article—appeared on the cover of our February 2023 magazine.

Thank you to all those who sent in pictures and participated in this year’s contest!

A bird's nest with speckled baby blue eggs sits in the branches of a young pecan tree.

A bird's nest with speckled baby blue eggs sits in the branches of a young pecan tree.
I took this picture back in 2009 with little photo training so it probably does not have the bytes needed to enlarge for the cover, perhaps an article. We were moving a mobile home in for my wife and I to have a way to take care of my mom suffering from Alzheimer disease. The home offered my mom some independence, but with us nearby. Worked for a while.
As the home was being delivered I was about to take out yet another tree to aid the driver. He said what are you doing, I can corkscrew my way in and leave the tree. I could not visualize how he could do it but I was glad to save the tree since it was one of my own Choctaw grafts.
The truck driver was amazing and snaked that house in perfectly in one try.
Six months later I took this picture of a Mockingbird (our State Bird) nest safely nestled in the limbs of that Choctaw tree (Pecan Tree is our State Tree and Pecan our State Nut).
It was meant to be! (Photo by Jim Ober)

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The next Annual Harvest Photo Contest will kick off in October 2023 and will be announced in Pecan South.

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