National Wildlife Photo Awards

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National Wildlife

Фотографии - победители 35 ежегодного конкурса журнала National Wildlife



GRAND PRIZE
Kim Steininger
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
"I took this picture right before I ducked," says Steininger. On a bird-watching trip in Ontario, Canada, last winter, the network administrator noticed that one of the great gray owls she was photographing was staring back at her. "I didn’t think anything of it until it started flying at me," she says. Before getting out of the way, Steininger captured this digital photo with a 500mm telephoto lens.



Victor S. Lamoureux
Vestal, New York
Lamoureux, a high school biology teacher, knows frogs. So when he went frog-watching with his son and niece at a nearby pond and spotted two male green frogs clinging to each other, he knew it was something unusual. "Then my son said, â€***732;Dad, Dad, look—there are three frogs!’" says Lamoureux. As it turned out, there actually were four: three males in a conga line behind one put-upon female. Lamoureux raced back to his house with the kids in tow, and returned to take this digital image with a 180mm macro lens.



Ray G. Foster
Salem, Oregon
Ducks, not hummingbirds, were on Foster’s mind when he settled down behind a photo blind near a pond in southern Oregon. "I wasn’t having any duck luck so I decided to focus on this hummingbird," says the paper mill worker. He used a 300mm lens to take this unusual photo of a rufous hummingbird collecting fibers from a cattail—presumably to build a nest.



Kevin Doxstater
Port Orange, Florida
While photographing water birds in Florida’s Fort DeSoto Park, Doxstater spotted a long-billed curlew hundreds of feet away in the middle of a tidal marsh. Doxstater took off his socks and shoes and slowly waded into the marsh, making digital photos along the way using a 500mm lens and a 1.4x teleconverter. In the end, he was rewarded with this close-up shot of the curlew in the middle of a crab lunch.



Craig Hilton
Lakewood, Colorado
On a trip to Utah’s Bear River, Hilton was surprised to see a pair of hungry American white pelicans herding several carp—bigger than the birds’ bills—into the shallows. Hilton captured the moment with a digital camera and a 200-400mm zoom lens. "What I love about the picture is the expression on the pelicans’ faces. You know they’re having a good time," he says.



Hira Punjabi
Maharashtra, India
On a frigid winter morning at India’s Tal Chappar animal sanctuary, Punjabi came upon two male blackbucks battling for dominance against a glowing backdrop of dust and light. The graceful animals, once overhunted, can now be seen in herds throughout India. Punjabi made the photograph with a 500mm telephoto lens.



Bill Yeaton
Dover, New Hampshire
Yeaton was working as a physician on a small cruise ship in Mexico’s Sea of Cortés when, at breakfast one morning, the passengers noticed that several dolphins were swimming alongside the boat. "Then more and more dolphins came up, until there were hundreds surrounding us," says Yeaton. He took this photo with a digital camera and a 28-300mm zoom lens.



James Shadle
Valrico, Florida
Last spring, Shadle headed to Tampa Bay to photograph a spoonbill rookery there. The salesman jumped out of his boat, lowered his tripod and, using a digital camera and a 600mm lens, photographed this roseate spoonbill just as it came in for a landing.



Christopher C. Barry
Huntington, West Virginia
Perched on a bright yellow lily, a Scudderia katydid nymph caught Barry’s eye as he strolled through a Huntington public park. Using a digital camera with a 38-76mm zoom lens, Barry captured a close-up of the insect looking like it climbed the flower just to enjoy the view.



Joshua D. Henson
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
One night during a late-October camping trip in Yellowstone, Henson was driven out of his tent and into his car by the cold. The next morning, the freezing temperatures awoke the seasonal park ranger before dawn—just in time for him to capture this frosty, foggy field at sunrise. He used a 28-80mm lens to make the photo.

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Adam Schallau
Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
Scouting for wildflowers near Crested Butte, Colorado, Schallau hit a gold mine: a field of mule’s ear against a backdrop of the Anthracite Range and a glorious sunset. To capture the golden moment, the retail account manager used a 12-24mm zoom lens and a tripod to hold his digital camera steady for the quarter-second exposure.



Edsel L. Romero
Cavite, Philippines
While visiting Singapore Botanic Gardens in July 2004, Romero spotted two pairs of mating daylight-flying moths on a single blade of grass. To take the digital photo, the computer programmer lay flat on the ground, inches away from the brightly patterned moths, and used a 180mm macro lens.



Robert M. Palmer
Milliken, Colorado
A young swift fox makes a dash for its den, a kangaroo rat clenched tightly in its teeth. Earlier this year, Palmer stumbled upon the kit’s mother and followed her back to her den in eastern Colorado—a rare find, since swift foxes have vanished from 90 percent of their historic range in the United States. Over the next month or so, Palmer, a product manager, returned often to the site, taking hundreds of photos of the young fox family. "Once they got used to having me there, they acted like I was part of the family," he says. Palmer made this digital photo with a 500mm lens and a 1.4x teleconverter.



Jerry Horowitz
Marlboro, New Jersey
Horowitz photographed this brown bear on Alaska's Kodiak Island. The retiree used a 70-200mm zoom lens.



Nick J. Dunlopх
Sebastopol, California
Dunlop photographed this belted kingfisher near his home. The real estate appraiser used a 600mm lens and 1.4x teleconverter.

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[Рамада]

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[Flagman]

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36th Annual Photography Awards



GRAND PRIZE
Robert M. Palmer
Miliken, Colorado
Late one afternoon in the middle of winter, Palmer was driving around the back roads of eastern Colorado, keeping an eye out for raptors to photograph. Instead, he came upon the makings of a perfect pronghorn action shot. A herd of the animals, startled by the sound of his approaching truck, took off running across a snowy pasture. “I stopped, got out and noticed this ravine that they had to cross,” says the product manager. “So I waited.” Sure enough, the pronghorn reached the ravine and began jumping across, giving Palmer, an amateur photographer, just enough time to use his 500mm lens and 1.4x lens extender to take this digital photograph of about a dozen pronghorn, including one leaping and one landing, in the golden light.



HONORABLE MENTION, Connecting People and Nature
Peter T. Hartlove
Longmont, Colorado
Every winter, more than 2,000 humpback whales come together off the coast of Silver Banks, Dominican Republic, to mate and give birth. On a trip a few years ago, Hartlove used an underwater film camera and a 15mm lens to photograph this calf (foreground) swimming near the surface while its mother (tail visible in bottom right) keeps close watch, seemingly unperturbed by the diver in the upper left corner of the image. “They’re so intelligent,” says Hartlove of his favorite animals.



FIRST PLACE, New Life, Professional
James P. Crotty
Kettering, Ohio
Sometimes the most compelling nature is right outside our front doors—literally, in Crotty’s case. Each summer, the photographer’s front porch is home to several young bird families, including this pair of house finches that hatched in a hanging fern. Using a digital camera and a 100mm macro lens, Crotty says he lucked into this image: “I only got that one shot because as soon as they realize you’re not the parent, they go back down into the nest.”



First Place, Underwater Life, Amateur
Rand McMeins
Edmonds, Washington
“This was probably one of the most amazing things I have ever seen underwater,” McMeins says of his image of a school of thousands of herring being chased by a cormorant. On a dive trip to the Sea of Cortez, the business owner photographed the busy scene using a digital camera, a 10.5mm fisheye lens and a Magic Filter, which helps recapture lost color underwater.



HONORABLE MENTION, Other Wildlife, Amateur
Erik Enderson
Tucson, Arizona
Enderson came upon this red-spotted toad in a designated wildlife area a few miles from his home. “I heard its distinct call—it’s about a 20-second whistle,” he says. “I found this poor lonely male, all by himself, trying to attract a mate.” Over the next couple of hours, the technical writer returned again and again to find the toad rippling the water with its throat sac as he sang out. He captured the lovelorn amphibian on film using a 180mm macro lens.



FIRST PLACE, Habitat, Professional
Tony T. Sweet
Eldersberg, Maryland
On a trip to Washington State’s Whidbey Island, photographer Sweet knew just what he was looking for. “I asked someone where the madrona trees were,” he says, “and they told me to go to Madrona Lane.” Once he found the trees (also known as madrone or arbutus), Sweet took “a bunch of photos” of the brilliant red bark, which peels off to expose the wood below. For this panorama, Sweet used a film camera with a 30mm lens.



HONORABLE MENTION, Other Wildlife, Amateur
Howard B. Cheek
Kempner, Texas
This writing spider (Argiope aurantia) is quite small—only an inch or so in length, says Cheek. The semi-retired medical records coder spends hours roaming his 6-acre yard, keeping a careful eye out for such tiny subjects on which to practice his macro photography. “I just go out there and shoot whatever moves,” says Cheek. He made this digital image with a 150mm macro lens and a 1.4x extender.



FIRST PLACE, Power of Nature, Professional
Hazel S. Erikson
Sharps Chapel, Tennessee
Erikson often witnesses electrical storms on Norris Lake near her home. Earlier this year, using a lightning-activated trigger on her digital camera, she took about 100 photographs during one particularly spectacular storm—including this striking image of lightning reaching across the sky towards a patch of blue. “I was very lucky,” she says. When she uploaded this photo to her computer, she says, “I knew it was a keeper.”



FIRST PLACE, Habitat, Amateur
Robert Servranckx
Ile Bizard, Quebec, Canada
This icy scene looks like it could be miles from civilization, but it is actually at a frozen lake about three miles from Servranckx’s home. That doesn’t mean he didn’t suffer for his art, however. “It was around zero degrees Fahrenheit with a good stiff breeze,” says the programmer-analyst. “I was the only nut out there in the cold.” Using a digital camera with a 17-40mm zoom lens, he photographed this frigid sunset on a February evening last year.



FIRST PLACE, Birds, Amateur
Steve Irving
San Jose, California
“This was a one-in-a-million shot,” says Irving, who photographed a male calliope hummingbird (left) attempting to chase a female rufous hummingbird away from a feeding flower. The retired business owner made the digital image using a 70-200mm zoom lens while attending a photography workshop in British Columbia last year. “I’ve taken many photos of fighting hummingbirds,” he says. “Usually all I get is wings or a blur, or nothing at all.”

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FIRST PLACE, Mammals, Amateur
John Morrow
Glen Echo, Maryland
“Bears have sort of become my specialty,” says construction executive Morrow. “I really like them.” In fact, he likes them enough that he spent a three-week vacation—most of it rainy—photographing grizzlies in Alaska. One afternoon in Katmai National Park, Morrow, who had been up since dawn looking for bears, came across this young grizzly near a creek. “The sun was just starting to peek out and the bear looked really, really happy that it had stopped raining,” he says. Morrow used a film camera and a 600mm lens to capture this image.



FIRST PLACE, Connecting People and Nature, Professional
Michael P. O’Neill
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
O’Neill is a frequent visitor to Florida’s Marine Life Center, a wildlife rehabilitation facility just a few miles from his home. Two years ago, during a release of a healed loggerhead turtle, veterinarians and volunteers—watched by a crowd of curious onlookers—weighed the 300-pound reptile, loaded it onto a truck, drove it to the nearby beach and carried it to the water’s edge. By then, the photographer was ready. “I always wanted to take this kind of picture,” says O’Neill. “I knew I needed a creative angle.” He plunged into the water with his film camera and 16mm fisheye lens and waited, waist deep in the surf. Once the turtle was released into the water, O’Neill says, “It took off like a missile.” In the fleeting seconds before the animal vanished, O’Neill managed to take only one photograph. Fortunately, that photograph turned out to be just what he’d planned: the now-healthy giant returning to the sea under the eye of an adoring public.



FIRST PLACE, Other Wildlife, Amateur
Cyrinda Hoffman
Anchorage, Alaska
Yes, this photograph of an Alligator mississippiensis was taken from inches away, and yes, Hoffman was in the water with the 8-foot reptile. And no, we don't recommend it. But Hoffman wasn't worried. "That one was pretty docile," she says. "It just seemed curious." The electrical designer, a Florida native, was visiting Big Cypress National Preserve when she came upon the gator. Once in the water, Hoffman used a friend's digital camera with a 15mm fisheye lens and strobe lights in an underwater housing to make this image.

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36th Annual Photography Awards - Birds



First Place/Amateur
Steve Irving, Hummingbirds
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada



First Place/Pro
Cheryl Opperman, Bald Eagle
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska



Honorable Mention
Mark Bartosik, Black Skimmer
Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, Angelton, Texas



Honorable Mention
Janet Horton, Barn Swallow
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Newark, California



Honorable Mention
Christopher J. Crowley, Blue Jays
Orford, New Hampshire

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36th Annual Photography Awards - Mammals



Grand Prize
Robert M Palmer, American Pronghorn
Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado



First Place/Amature
John L. Morrow, Alaskan Brown Bear
McNeil River, State Game Sanctuary, Alaska



First Place/Pro
Lori Mazzuca, Humpback Whale and Dolphin
Kauai, Hawaii



Honorable Mention
Dorothy Keeler, Moose
Denali National Park, Alaska



Honorable Mention
Joel Sartore, Gray Wolves
Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, near Ely, Minnesota



Honorable Mention
Arthur Morris, Brown Bear Clamming with Cub
Katmai National Park, Alaska



Honorable Mention
Fi Rust, Cow Moose and Four-day-old Calf
Kawuneeche Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

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36th Annual Photography Awards - Underwater



First Place/Amateur
Rand Mcmeins, Cormorant Diving For Fish
Sea of Cortez, Mexico



First Place/Pro
Todd Pusser, West Indian Manatee
Crystal River, Florida



Honorable Mention
Patrick Weir, Red-lipped Blenny
Laura’s Reef, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands



Honorable Mention
Michael J. Gerber, California Sea Lions
Los Osotes, Sea of Cortez, Lapaz, Mexico



Honorable Mention
Gloria Freund, Eagle Ray
Bonaire Marine Park, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

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36th Annual Photography Awards - Other Widlife



First Place/Amateur
Cyrinda Hoffman, American Alligator
Near Everglades City, Florida



First Place/Pro
Steve Greer, Horseshoe Crabs
Delaware Bay, Delaware



Honorable Mention
Howard B. Cheek, Writing Spider
Kempner, Texas



Honorable Mention
Bill Harbin, Mating Flower Flies
Haywood County, North Carolina



Honorable Mention
Erik F. Enderson, Red-Spotted Toad
Tucson, Arizona