2021 Photo Contest - Grand Prize Winner

Grand Prize Winner - Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl fighting over a prey. Photo by Dan Kirk.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Landscape

1st Place – Autumn sunset at Vilander Bluff. Photo by David Seidensticker.

2nd Place – Platte River Valley with Sandhill Cranes. Photo by David Rabenau.

3rd Place – Monument Rocks and rising clouds. Photo by Casey Galvin.

Honorable Mention – Turner’s Spring in June. Photo by David Seidensticker.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Bonus Category: Nature as Abstract Art

1st Place – Frozen patterns at Don Robinson State Park. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2nd Place – A cedar tree responds to an injury by continuing to grow around the original trunk. Photo by David Seidensticker.

3rd Place – Blades in red. Photo by Casey Galvin.

Honorable Mention – Star-trails and lighting bugs. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Invertebrates

1st Place – A swamp metalmark on a bed of milkweed. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2nd Place – A definite tussock moth caterpillar glows under ultraviolet illumination. Photo by David Seidensticker.

3rd Place – A perched blue dasher dragonfly. Photo by David Seidensticker.

Honorable Mention – An Aphaenogaster rudis ant caught in the act of myrmecochory, moving the diaspore of a bloodroot back to its nest. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Vertebrates

1st Place – A Snowy Owl stretches in warm afternoon light. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2nd Place – A Great Egret approaches tree to perch. Photo by David Seidensticker.

3rd Place – Western Mudsnake in defensive posture. Photo by Casey Galvin.

Honorable Mention – Northern harrier stealing prey from short eared owl. Photo by Dan Kirk.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Plants & Fungi

1st Place – The maypop, Passiflora incarnata. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2nd Place – A rare double-flowered spring beauty bloom. Photo by Bill Duncan.

3rd Place – Indian paintbrush at sunset. Photo by Bill Hall.

Honorable Mention – Hare’s foot inkcap. Photo by Lisa Saffell.