NPPA Gallery

What composition qualities are represented?

RJ Sangosti - THE DENVER POSTFarmer Harry Strohauer walks in his corn fields, Thursday July 19, 2012, near Lasalle, Colo., that

are damaged from thousands of grasshoppers and drought.

RJ Sangosti - THE DENVER POSTTan Wanwei enjoys the view, Monday May, 07, 2012, from Bear Lake at Rocky Mountain National Park as snow falls in

the area. The Colorado mountains were hit with an early May snowstorm.

RJ Sangosti - THE DENVER POSTPresident Obama's hand pokes out from behind the podium as he resumed campaigning, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, at Lions Park in Golden, Colo. President Obama has traveled to Colorado 12 times since the start of his

presidency.

RJ Sangosti - THE DENVER POSTRobert Bryan has spent most of his life behind bars. Arrested more than 50 times since he was 18 years old, his current sentence -- six years for second-degree assault -- will be his last. He has liver cancer and is now a patient of the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility's hospice program in

Canon City…

RJ Sangosti - THE DENVER POST Chantel Blunk, wife of Jonathan Blunk, pauses Friday, July 27, 2012, on the tarmac at Denver International Airport as

her husband's body waits to be loaded into a plane bound for Reno, Nev., where his full military funeral will take place. Blunk, a five-year U.S. Navy veteran, was killed during the July 20 shooting rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

Patrick Smith - Freelance for Getty Images A man reaches out to touch the statue of Joe Paterno, the former Penn State football coach, shortly after hearing of 85-year-olds death, complications of lung cancer, outside of Beaver Stadium on Sunday, January 22, 2012 in State College, Pennsylvania. While Paterno was once the winningest coach in major college football, he ended his historic career mired in scandal, and his statue became a highly debated topic since the release of the Louis Freeh

report in July 2012, which concluded that Paterno was aware of allegations levied against convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky in 1998…

Patrick Smith - Freelance for Getty Images Safety Ed Reed #20 of the Baltimore Ravens closes his eyes during the national anthem on the sideline before taking on the

Cincinnati Bengals at M&T Bank Stadium on September 10, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Reed returned an interception for a touchdown in the third quarter of the Ravens, 44-13, win over the Bengals that set a new NFL record of 1,497 career interception

return yards.

John Moore - Getty Images North America Children lie in an empty living room as an eviction team removes their family's household furniture during a home foreclosure on

October 5, 2011 in Milliken, Colorado. The owners had stopped making mortgage payments some 11 months before, and the bank took possession of their home after receiving a court order. The family's possessions were removed to the front yard and the door

locks changed. A nationwide glut of foreclosed homes is expected to depress U.S. housing values for years.

Dina Litovsky - Freelance Three friends look at the photo they just took while a girl sits alone in a nightclub at the Bryant Park Hotel. The trend of photographing yourself while partying and uploading the photo instantly to Facebook through mobile

phones has shifted the focus of many events from partying to picture taking.

Rich Lam - Getty Images North America Scott Jones gives his girlfriend Alex Thomas a kiss after being knocked down to the ground as riot police clear

the streets of downtown Vancouver, Canada after the city broke out in riots when the Vancouver Canucks lost Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, on June 15, 2011.