November 19, 2019 • Page 8 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Picture This Local Photographers Earn Recognition At Dakota MasterWorks Senior Art Show mentions. got two honor“This was my able mentions, fifth year, and I first and I didn’t get heard about it in anything,” Harens the Press & Dakotan said. “So they and I thought, ‘Oh, I listed off 10 honorcould do that,’” said able mentions and Koller, who has her we didn’t get an own small greetinghonorable mencard business. “So, I tion. We looked submitted five years at each other and ago and each year said, ‘What hapsince.” pened?’” Winning second Koller’s entry place was a surprise was the product for Koller, who has of a great deal of COURTESY PHOTOS received three hon- Sharon Koller and Paul Harens received second and third patience. orable mentions “‘Leaving the place, respectively, for their photo entries at the Dakota Masin this particular Branch’ was a terWorks art show and competition. competition before. picture of an “It was kind of eagle that I took humorous, because out at the dam,” Paul and I and my said Koller, who, sister were sitting as a wildlife phoaround this table, tographer, likes and they were listing photographing the honorable menbirds. “That day, tions in photograthere was an phy, and we were adult and a juboth like, ‘Neither venile out there one of us got an and I just waited honorable mention and waited bethis year?’” Koller recause I knew one called. “Then, all of of them would a sudden, they said, fly off. I can wait ‘Third place goes to anywhere from Paul Harens.’ Well, a half an hour to we were just very an hour for the excited about that. right shot. I just Then, when they watch.” said second place Koller parhad my name. I was ticularly enjoys so taken aback by photographing that; I didn’t even birds in flight know which piece because it is a a two-day exhibit of all were 70-some entries.” had won.” challenge, she said. the entries at the Good Harens acknowledge After the awards recepHarens, who also has Samaritan Society National that he, too, was surprised tion, Koller went back and a greeting card business, Campus in Sioux Falls. that one of his pieces won. looked at her two pieces to submitted a photo he took “This was the biggest “Two years ago was the see which one had placed. of an old railroad bed on year they had for photogra- first time I entered, and I Winners were chosen the west side of the James phy entries,” Harens said. got two honorable menby professional judges at River near Fleeg’s Riverside “Just in photography, there tions. Last year, Sharon BY CORA VAN OLSON cora.vanolson@yankton.net Two Yankton residents were disappointed not to hear their names called during the honorable mentions in the Dakota MasterWorks awards ceremony last month, but their moods brightened when they were both announced place winners. Sharon Koller and Paul Harens received second and third place, respectively, for their photography entries in the 23rd annual South Dakota Health Care Association (SDHCA) Dakota MasterWorks art show and competition. Koller’s winning entry of an eagle taking off from a tree was titled “Leaving the Branch,” while Harens won for his landscape photograph of a trail shrouded with trees titled, “Garden Mystery Trail.” The Dakota MasterWorks contest is aimed specifically at individuals age 60 and older and allows several different types of media entries, including: oil, acrylic, watercolor, drawing/pastels/scratchboard, photography, mixed media and wood carving. Winners fall into two categories: Experienced, age 60–79, and Masters, age 80 and older. Harens and Koller placed in the experienced group. This year’s show included more than 130 entries, making it one of the largest competitions ever. 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