Sometimes a photograph will capture a difficult subject so perfectly as to cause a sense of wonderment in those who view it.

That was the case with many of the photos displayed at this year’s Grundy County Corn Festival photography show, particularly the Best in Show winner — Whitney Sulwer’s close-up shot of a mother barn swallow fluttering in mid-air, feeding her three babies, their mouths wide open in anticipation in their mud and straw nest on the wooden plank wall of what seems to be a barn.