Thank You for Supporting
the 2025 Spring into Parks Photo Contest!
A Fundraiser for Vital Projects at Sonoma County Regional Parks,
including New Trails, Youth Programs and Climate Action projects
That’s a wrap on the 2025 Spring into Parks Photo Contest—and what a success it was! We are so grateful for your generous support. This fundraiser simply wouldn’t have been possible without you.
This year’s contest attracted 168 photo entries, received over 10,000 votes, and raised $11,000 to support our incredible Regional Parks! Thanks to our amazing sponsors, we raised an additional $10,000 in sponsorships and provided $2,000 in prize packages—a huge win for our community and our parks.
This year’s contest awarded prizes to 10 winners—5 chosen by public vote and 5 selected by our panel of judges:
This year’s contest attracted 168 photo entries, received over 10,000 votes, and raised $11,000 to support our incredible Regional Parks! Thanks to our amazing sponsors, we raised an additional $10,000 in sponsorships and provided $2,000 in prize packages—a huge win for our community and our parks.
This year’s contest awarded prizes to 10 winners—5 chosen by public vote and 5 selected by our panel of judges:
Judges' Choice Winners
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People's Choice Winners
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All winning photos – and many other entries – will be featured in our 2026 Parks Calendar! Order your calendar or reserve a date to feature your own photo here: https://www.gogophotocontest.com/sonomacountyparksfoundation
Love participating in our photo contests and supporting local parks? Stay tuned for the 2025 Top Dog Photo Contest – coming in July. Thank you again for your generous support of our Sonoma County Regional Parks!
Love participating in our photo contests and supporting local parks? Stay tuned for the 2025 Top Dog Photo Contest – coming in July. Thank you again for your generous support of our Sonoma County Regional Parks!
Thank you to our 2025 Photo Contest Sponsors
Thank you Photo Contest Prize Donors
Duckhorn portfolio of wineries, DaVero Vine and Farm, The Lab, Mezzaluna restaurant, SOMO Village, Session Climbing Gym
Meet our Judges
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Alex Glavtchev
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexg_imagery/ I was born in Bulgaria and moved to the U.S. as a teenager, eventually settling with my family in the South Bay. I attended UC Davis, where I earned an undergraduate degree in Physics, and later completed a Master’s in Physics at San Jose State University. It was at UC Davis that I met my wife, and together we decided to relocate to Sonoma County to raise our children in a smaller, nature-filled community. Professionally, I’ve worked in various high-tech roles and currently work as a software engineer at Keysight in Santa Rosa. I’m currently the admin and a judge for Keysight’s internal monthly employee photo contest. These opportunities have deepened my connection to the photography community and continue to inspire my own work. Outside of work, I’m passionate about hiking, swimming, playing soccer, and, most of all, photography. I’m completely self-taught and have spent years improving my craft by learning from YouTube creators and exploring photography concepts and techniques. My focus is on intimate nature photography, but I enjoy mixing it up with landscapes and urban scenes to challenge myself creatively. In 2024, I was honored to serve as a judge for the Sonoma County Parks Foundation's Top Dog Photo Contest Kathryn Koh Kathryn Koh Photography Photography is a powerful skill, and I have been a student of it for as long as I can remember. Fortunately for me photography was my father’s hobby, and I grew up with access to a dark room and a father to teach me the physics of light. I focus my work on portraits, both people and animals. I also enjoy action and travel photography. Today’s cameras are so easy and powerful that anyone can take a good picture. The most important thing to taking valuable pictures is to capture what you love, what you want to remember and what you want to share with others. Happy shooting. Kathy Haas Kathy was born in New Jersey and moved to the Bay Area following her college graduation. While advancing her career as a nurse practitioner at Kaiser, she dedicated her spare time to her passion for the outdoors and volunteer work. For 14 years, she led hikes as part of the Gay and Lesbian section of the Sierra Club, contributed her time to Habitat for Humanity, and served on the board of the Child Parent Institute. Kathy also found joy in activities like bicycling, hiking, camping, and mushroom foraging. Kathy has been interested in photography since grade school. In middle school a local photographer taught a her how to develop and print her own black and white photographs, and it’s been a hobby ever since. |
