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GREAT HEIGHTS & GRAND VIEWS:
15th IBEW Photo Contest Winners

Like something out of science fiction, Folsom, N.J., Local 351 member Bill DeClement's stunning image of two IBEW members in a window lift above fog-drenched ocean entranced voters in this year's photo contest.

DeClement's shot earned top honors in the 15th year of the competition, from IBEW members and the public via online voting in December.

Judges considered nearly 400 entries sent from across the U.S. and Canada. Voters then picked their favorites from the 15 finalists. This is the fourth year the contest featured online voting, and hundreds made their voices heard after the finalists were announced on www.ibew.org.

Seattle Local 77 member Bill Strite garnered second place accolades for his photo of a lineman team knuckling down to repair a broken cable in an icy wilderness.

Third place honors went to Charlotte, N.C., Local 962 member Paul Phillips for his visceral upward view of a lineman working in a snowstorm in a rural part of the state.

First Place Winner ($200)
Bill DeClement , Folsom, N.J., Local 351

Atlantic City's casinos, hotels, shows and attractions boast some stellar views. But few can match the perspective of what you see through the eyes of an electrician working on what is now the largest building in the city, the 48-story Revel Casino.

DeClement snapped this captivating photo of two members riding in a window rig at about 7 a.m. one morning when a blanket of fog rolled in, swaddling the ocean and city below.

"It was one of the eeriest things I'd ever seen," says DeClement, 42. "You could see just the tops of some buildings around us, and then there's the water in the background of the picture — it just felt unreal."

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