Enjoy these first-place winners of a recent photo contest between bed and breakfast innkeepers of the Michigan Lake to Lake B&B Association. They were judged from a field of more than 40 entries by four professional photographers and graphic designers from Michigan and Connecticut.

“Best Exterior” was won by Hexagon House B&B in Pentwater. Also ranked 2nd place in the “Best Overall” category, the photo is by
Dan VanDuinen Photographic.

Comstock House B&B in Big Rapids earned first place in the
“Best Interior” category. The photo is by Cheryl Colley.

This photo, also by Cheryl Colley, won a second first-place ranking for Comstock House as “Best Romantic.”

Winner of the “Best Food” category was Sandy White, innkeeper of Adventure Inn B&B in North Lakeport.

Another two-time-winning photo of the Hexagon House, also by
Dan VanDuinen Photographic, was judged “Best Overall.”

Special thanks to Heather Turner, author of the “Chef Forfeng” blog series and owner of Forfeng Designs in Glastonbury, CT, for heading up the team of volunteer judges. She recruited two of her hometown photographer friends to help, Peter Billard and Lynn Damon. Barbara Hranilovich, illustrator and fine artist, joined the panel from her studio in Lansing.

You can view the second-place-winning photos here; and the third-place winners here.