Submitted Photo Roger Riveland, of Williston, was the winner in the landscape category of the North Dakota Farm Bureau’s agriculture photo contest. His photo captures the silhouette of windmill beneath the North Dakota starlit sky.

A photo of a windmill on the home quarter where Roger Riveland’s grandparents, Lars Riveland and Martha Bergland-Riveland, homesteaded in Writing Rock Township, Divide County, was the winner in the landscape category of the North Dakota Farm Bureau’s agriculture photo contest this fall.

Roger Riveland is a photographer in Williston and a contributor to The Minot Daily News.

Riveland said both of his grandparents came to the United States from Norway.

“My grandpa died before I was born (seven years prior) in 1953 and my grandma passed in 1973. These were my dad’s parents and they had four kids. My dad had two older sisters and one younger brother,” Riveland said. He said his father, Olin, was born in a very small house on the land in Writing Rock Township in 1918. He said his grandparents later moved a huge house from other land purchased two miles away to the place.

He said the houses and barn have been removed and the windmill is all that remains. He said his cousin’s son owns the land there now.

“There were Northern Lights that night as you can see,” Riveland said.

Other winners in the NDFB agriculture photo contest were: Jodi Miiller, Rugby, animal category with a close-up photo of a bald eagle flying in a clear blue sky; and Alexa Althoff, Fortuna, lifestyle category and overall champion with a black and white photo of a woman riding a horse on the North Dakota prairie with a dog walking alongside the horse. Each winner received $300.

This is the seventh year of the contest. More than 150 photos were submitted this year.