They’ve done it again.

And in dramatic fashion.

Kingfisher High School Photography students took home over 50 of the top awards, including both Best of Show honors, at the annual Oklahoma Camera Club Youth Photo Contest.

Under the direction of longtime adviser Dr. A.J. Johnson, KHS students have long been honing their photography skills and garnering countless awards at the premier competition through the years.

This year was no exception.

Freshman Finley Harrison earned Best of Show honors in the digital category with his first-place photojournalism entry, “Angry Opponent.”

Also, sophomore Fernando Jaramillo took away the Best of Show for his first-place scapes entry in the print division. His photo was entitled “Reflections.”

In addition, Harrison received an honorable mention for his scapes entry in the digital division.

Since its inception in 2003, the contest strives to promote photography among young people by highlighting outstanding photographs from high school students from public and private schools as well as those who are homeschooled.

Students enter photographs in the digital and/ or print division in which each are composed of six categories of competition - architecture, photojournalism, people/ animals, scapes (land, water, city), photographer’s choice in monochrome and photographer’s choice in color.

With approximately 570 entries submitted by 93 students from six schools, KHS students earned 10 first-place, eight second- place, four third-place awards and 27 honorable mentions in addition to the pair of Best of Show awards.

“Our judges were impressed with quality, orig- inality and expression,” said Piers Blackett, OCC contest manager.

“Congratulations to Kingfisher (High School) for taking the most places and performing well in all 12 digital and print categories and for continuing to be the leading photography school in the state.”

Garnering the most honors, Chief Photographer Emeritus Hayden Green received nine awards which included first place in the print division with his color photographer’s choice entry and a first place award for his people or animals entry in the digital division.

Green also took second place in the monochrome photographer’s choice and third place honors for his photojournalism entry both in the digital division.

In addition, Green also took home six honorable mentions in the digital division.

Jake Kirtley also had a stellar showing earning first-place and second-place awards on two color photographer’s choice entries, a third place in scapes and an honorable mention for his people or animals entry all in the digital division.

Other student photographers capturing top honors included: Jaici Easton - first place in monochrome photographer’s choice and scapes in the digital division.

Davis Sanders - first place in architecture in the digital division, second place for his architecture entry in the print division and honorable mentions in scapes and architecture of the digital division.

Karen Munoz - first place in photojournalism of the print division, second place in photojournalism and honorable mentions in monochrome photographer’s choice and photojournalism all in the digital division.

Zoey Sanders - first place in people or animals category of the print division, second place in the people or animals category and two honorable mentions in color photographer’s choice, as well as another honorable mention in people or animals, all in the digital division.

Lillie Hill - second place in the people or animals category of the print division, third place in people or animals in the digital category and three honorable mentions - monochrome photographer’s choice and two people or animals - all in the digital division.

Myles Harrison (Chief Photographer Emeritus) three honorable mentions color photographer’s choice, photojournalism and scapes - all in the digital category.

Abel Guzman - third place with his color photographer’s choice in the digital category.

Jaxton Thompson - two honorable mentions in monochrome photographer’s choice and another in scapes, all in the digital division.

Bryan Campos - honorable mention awards in scapes and architecture in the digital division.

Maddux Gomez - second place with his scapes entry in the print category.

Chase Price - second place in photojournalism of the print division.

Wyatt Long - honorable mention in photojournalism in the digital division.

Only a limited number of entries are selected to progress to the national competition of the Photography Society of America Youth Photo Contest, Johnson said.

Of the images entered, KHS had 11 photographs qualify for the national competition, he said.

Students whose photos were selected include Jake Kirtley, Jaici Easton, Finley Harrison, Hayden Green, Davis Sanders, Karen Munoz, Zoey Sanders and Fernando Jaramillo.

“I cannot begin to say how grateful we are for the Oklahoma Camera Club and its Youth Photo Contest,” Johnsonsaid. “We in our school consider their contest the ‘state competition’ of photography.

“To be honored by the OCC is, for my students, the peak of their high school photography experience.”