With images of misery and joy, in color and in stark black and white, Boston Globe photographers captured first-place laurels in eight of the 15 categories in the Boston Press Photographers Association’s annual Pictures of the Year contest. Below are a selection of the winning photographs.
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Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff
1st place Feature: Brains without Supervision: The not-so-calm-before-the-storm of Hurricane Sandy.
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Byun, Yoon S. Globe Staff
2nd Place Feature: Shark: New York artist Pat Oleszko helped Osmar Ramos-Caballero of Holyoke with his costume of a BP employee being eaten by a shark. Oleszko had a costume-themed "Global Warning! Writhin' See/Change" group for First Night.
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Bill Greene / Globe Staff
HM Feature: Surprise Kiss: Father "Doc" Conway of St. Peter Church received a kiss from Anette Haynes while walking through the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood.
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Bill Greene / Globe Staff
2nd Place General News: Waiting for Caleigh: Lisa Harrison and brother-in-law Anthony Harrison waited at the Harrison home for word of Anthony's daughter, Caleigh. Two-year-old Caleigh disappeared on a beach and was believed to have been taken by the sea.
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Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
3rd Place Spot News: Forever Gone: Summer Anderson, 16, hugged friend Jason Beausolei, 16, as D'Angela Alberty looked on after the fatal car crash that took the life of Michaela Smith on the corner of Route 140 and Walnut Street in Foxborough.
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Bill Greene / Globe Staff
HM General News: Stations of the Cross: Marlene Texeira of Dorchester and parishioners from St. Peter Parish performed the Stations of the Cross ritual on Good Friday in the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood.
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Bill Greene/Globe Staff
HM General News: Newtown: Mourners grieved outside of Honan Funeral Home on Main Street, Newtown.
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1st Place Pictorial: The Eagle has Landed: The Boston College Eagle mascot skated among the celebratory debris after BC defeated Ferris State 4-1 to win the 2012 Men's Frozen Four National Championship.
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Essdras M Suarez / Globe Staff
2nd Place Pictorial: Untitled: Young men practice parkour moves off a beachfront wall in Cape Verde.
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Suzanne Kreiter / Globe Staff
HM Pictorial: Cranberry Bog: At the Carlisle Cranberry Bog, high winds helped blow the cranberries toward the shore, making the job a bit easier for Francisco Guttierrez and Cristobal Lopez.
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David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
HM Pictorial: Stripes: Salt piles under cover in red, white and blue tarps in Chelsea by the waterfront dwarf cranes and bulldozers which were hardly used last winter because of the unusual warmth.
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Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
1st Place Portrait Personality: The Writer: Prize-winning writer Edith Pearlman was photographed at her home.
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John Tlumacki / Globe Staff
HM Portrait Personality: Fashion Designer: Fashion icon Marilyn Riseman at a show of her dresses at the Boston Design Center.
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Bill Greene / Globe Staff
HM Portrait Personality: John and Tosca: John Lorimer Worden III at his home in Arlington with his parrot Tosca.
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Byun, Yoon S. Globe Staff
3rd Place Portrait Personality: Brendan: Brendan Ridge, of the Boston Rugby Club in Watertown.
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Bill Greene / Globe Staff
1st Place Sports Action: Intercepted: Jamie Sawler caught an interception in the annual Mud Bowl, a mud football tournament in North Conway, N.H.
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Jim Davis/Globe Staff
HM Sports Feature: Untitled: Doc Rivers and Kevin Garnett on the sidelines during the Heat-Celtics NBA playoffs in 2012. The Celtics lost the series to the Heat.
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Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
2nd Place Animal: Kaplan Family Hospice House is a 20 bed facility run by Hospice of the North Shore & Greater Boston. The house provides end-of-life care, along with grief resources, for families.
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John Tlumacki / Globe Staff
3rd Place Animal: Seamus Healy drove in the annual St. Patrick's Day parade.
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Joanne Rathe / Globe Staff
HM Animal
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John Tlumacki / Globe Staff
HM Animal: A hawk sat on a branch above a pond as an oriole fluttered above.
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Bill Greene / Globe Staff
A picture of former President George Bush hung along a country road in rural Vermont.
