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Audubon Photography Awards Announced
21 April 2016
Five photographers from among 1,700 were honored with Audubon Photography Awards today in the National Audubon Society's seventh such contest. The winners were chosen from almost 7,000 photos, submitted from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and six Canadian provinces.
Grand Prize. 'Bald Eagle and Great Blue Heron' by Bonnie Block.
The Society noted that "half of the species in the winning and honored photos are birds identified as threatened or endangered by climate change in Audubon's Birds and Climate Change Report, which shows that 314 bird species in North America face an uncertain future due to shifting climatic suitability."
AWARD WINNERS
The five award winners and honorable mentions include:
- Grand Prize Winner: Bald Eagle and Great Blue Heron by Bonnie Block. The Bald Eagle is climate endangered.
- Professional Winner: Osprey by Dick Dickinson. The Osprey is climate endangered.
- Fine Art Winner: Green Violetear by Barbara Driscoll.
- Youth Winner: Great Frigatebird by Carolina Anne Fraser.
- Amateur Winner: Eared Grebes by Steve Torna. The Eared Grebe is climate endangered.
- Amateur Honorable Mention: Black-winged Stilt by Artur Stankiewicz.
- Amateur Honorable Mention: Common Raven by Colleen Gara. The Common Raven is climate threatened.
- Fine Art Honorable Mention: Turkey Vulture by Blake Shaw.
- Amateur Honorable Mention: Piping Plover by Martin V. Sneary. The Piping Plover is climate endangered.
Judges for the Audubon Photography Awards also put together their Top 100 Birds Photos from the thousands of images submitted.
For more information see the news release below.
Presenting the Audubon Photography Awards
NEW YORK -- Today, five photographers triumphed over 1,700 competitors and have been declared winners of the Audubon Photography Awards, the National Audubon Society's seventh such contest. The winners were chosen from almost 7,000 photos, submitted from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and six Canadian provinces.
Judges include birding legend Kenn Kaufman and last year's Grand Prize winner and professional photographer Melissa Groo. Winning photographs will be published in Audubon magazine, Nature's Best Photography magazine and will also be displayed within the Nature's Best Photography Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History later this year.
On a more somber note, half of the species in the winning and honored photos are birds identified as threatened or endangered by climate change in Audubon's Birds and Climate Change Report, which shows that 314 bird species in North America face an uncertain future due to shifting climatic suitability.
Now meet the winning birds:
- Grand Prize Winner: Bald Eagle and Great Blue Heron by Bonnie Block. The Bald Eagle is climate endangered.
- Professional Winner: Osprey by Dick Dickinson. The Osprey is climate endangered.
- Fine Art Winner: Green Violetear by Barbara Driscoll.
- Youth Winner: Great Frigatebird by Carolina Anne Fraser.
- Amateur Winner: Eared Grebes by Steve Torna. The Eared Grebe is climate endangered.
- Amateur Honorable Mention: Black-winged Stilt by Artur Stankiewicz.
- Amateur Honorable Mention: Common Raven by Colleen Gara. The Common Raven is climate threatened.
- Fine Art Honorable Mention: Turkey Vulture by Blake Shaw.
- Amateur Honorable Mention: Piping Plover by Martin V. Sneary. The Piping Plover is climate endangered.
Restricted by the amount of categories, there could only be five winning photographs. However, the judges for the Audubon Photography Awards put together their Top 100 Birds Photos from the 6,000+ images submitted. Get lost among some of the world's greatest bird photography here.