Lake Audubon

It's really fun to see the work of a good photographer, and it is even better when it is a local guy and his work covers the area you know so well -- because you too live there.

That is the case with Jim Kirby, who recently won a U.S. Forest Service contest with this photograph of Lake Audubon, the one right down the hill from our Lawyers Road property.

According to the Reston Patch newsletter, Kirby won the grand prize in the U.S. Forest Service's "My Neighborhood Forest" contest.

Kirby said he felt the image of Reston, showing what he called the "amazing forest that we live under," was just what the U.S. Forest Service was looking for. The contest challenged photographers to take a neighborhood photo that showed urban or community forests.

"The real winner here is Reston, which truly is an urban forest," Kirby says.  There are more photos of Reston, local people, and northern Virginia on his website: www.jimkirbyphoto.com.