Mobile phone photo contest winners

John's picks: #5 Kara Bauer-Cella took this photo from the back deck of the Mt. Washington Hotel on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. She said that weekend the region enjoyed a storm that dumped more than six inches of snow on the mountains. John says: 'This is the kind of dreamy photo that's possible when you travel to one of the nicest areas of New England. It takes you beyond the porch and into the distance where details in the mountains are visible, even though the lens is not as sophisticated as those found on point-and-shoot cameras.'
John's picks: #5
Kara Bauer-Cella took this photo from the back deck of the Mt. Washington Hotel on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. She said that weekend the region enjoyed a storm that dumped more than six inches of snow on the mountains.

John says:
"This is the kind of dreamy photo that's possible when you travel to one of the nicest areas of New England. It takes you beyond the porch and into the distance where details in the mountains are visible, even though the lens is not as sophisticated as those found on point-and-shoot cameras."

(Submitted by Kara Bauer-Cella)
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John Tlumacki has been a staff photographer at the Boston Globe since 1981. There's not much he hasn't seen, including covering three winter Olympics, several Superbowls, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. When on assignment shooting icebergs in the North Atlantic, he had an opportunity to fly a Air Force C135. He crashed in a hot air balloon race that took off from Foxborough when the basket hit the top of a tall pine tree off Route 95. He also has taken the last known photo of fugitive Whitey Bulger wearing a white Red Sox baseball cap. John is a graduate of Boston University, Magna Cum Laude from the College of Communication. He resides on the South Shore with his wife, Debra.
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