The results of The Baltimore Brew’s first Memorial Day Photo Competition are in, and we think they creatively capture the many moods of the holiday weekend.

Read on to see the runners-up and to find out what our judge Jennifer Bishop liked about the winning photos.

As promised, the first-place winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to cover some tasty tapas down at Harbor East from “Baltimore Happy Hour hotspot, Talara.”

We hope to conduct more of these photo contests so  — amateur and professional photographers — keep an eye out for them. . . Thank-you to everyone who submitted their work!

First Place (photo above)

“Great layered colors and mirrored gesture between girl and bear,” said judge Jennifer Bishop, of winner Richard Anderson’s photo. “I also like the embedded man. Not sure which world is more real here or who is watching who.”

Anderson told us in his email that the image was shot on Sunday May 30 at the Baltimore Zoo’s “Brew at the Zoo event.”

First Runner-Up

“I like this ghostly rendering of a movie projected on a house in the city,” said Bishop. “Again, a merger of two graphic worlds makes the photo intriguing to me.”

Here’s what photographer “T-dogg” said to us in her email:

“…We had a great kickoff to the summer with some vintage 16mm films projected onto a sheet on the back of a house in Hampden. Someone came around passing out cold Klondike ice cream bars in the dark. Good times.”

Second Runner-Up

“A less conventional view of the Loudon Park National Cemetery,” Bishop said, “with just the subtle letters on the flag as a reminder of what’s behind the wall.”

Here’s what photographer Amanda Arnold told us about her submissions sent on May 31, 2010:

“I took these this morning of my son, Remy (3) at Loudon Park National Cemetery on Frederick Rd. in southwest Baltimore. Today, he learned that Memorial Day is a chance to break out white pants if you want, see many flags of all sizes, and that many more uniformed men and women died than he is able to count yet.”