FIRST PLACE, SCENIC PHOTO: Standing on frozen mud flats, Joe Carter on Arundel shoots video of sea smoke rising in the early morning at Cape Porpoise on Jan. 8, 2015.

FIRST PLACE, PEOPLE PHOTO: Lapina Loding, originally of South Sudan, proudly displays her Certificate of Naturalization after becoming a United States citizen along with 85 others from a host of different countries on Sept. 17, 2014, at a naturalization ceremony at the Hannaford Hall at USM.

SECOND PLACE, SCENIC PHOTO: A rising sun colors sea smoke rising around lobster boats in Cape Porpoise harbor on Jan. 8, 2015.

THIRD PLACE, SPORTS PHOTO: Ryley Austin of Lisbon, a sophomore at Mt. Ararat High School, rests on a trainer's table in the locker room at Watson Arena in Brunswick at 4:23 a.m. before the start of his hockey team's practice at 4:55 on Jan. 13, 2015. Mt. Ararat is one of many teams in Southern Maine who must practice at odd hours because of a shortage of hockey rinks.