Published December 29. 2017 10:17PM
We selected some of our favorite feature photos taken this year. It’s nice to take a break from all the bad news and enjoy the scenery. We hope you like them, too.
Above: An osprey takes flight in the flight pen at the Carbon County Environmental Center.
Tamaqua High School cheerleaders perform with the band before a Blue Raiders’ football game this fall.
The sun sets behind trees in New Tripoli this fall before a Northwestern Lehigh football game.
Northwestern Lehigh stadium is reflected in Aidan McCarthy’s tuba this fall. McCarthy is a freshman member of the Palmerton Marching band that performed before the football game.
Seven eastern painted turtles bask on a log at Mauch Chunk Lake.
Left: A female mallard duck flies along the Lehigh Canal.
Wildlife Conservation Officer Cory Bentzoni, with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, injects an antibiotic into a bear that was trapped this July in Penn Forest Township.
An immature, left, and mature bald eagle soar above Mauch Chunk Lake.
The Reading and Northern 425 steam engine powers through the Lehigh Gorge in July.