2023 Photo Contest - Grand Prize Winner

Grand Prize Winner - The handoff. This image was taken at Weldon Spring Conservation Area in St. Charles Co., MO Photographer: Bill Duncan

2023 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Landscape

1st Place - Fall in Shawnee Forest, IL Photographer: Bill Duncan

2nd Place - Alley Springs, Eminence, MO Photographer: Casey Galvin

3rd Place - Fall in the St. Francois Mountains, Taum Sauk Mtn, Middlebrook, MO Photographer: Daria McKelvey

Honorable Mention - A sunrise over the Mississippi River valley is seen from Elsberry, MO Photographer: David Seidensticker

2023 Photo Contest Winners - Bonus Category: Missouri Species of Conservation Concern

1st Place - Small white lady slipper orchid (Cypripedium candidum), Shannon Co., MO Photographer: Bill Duncan

2nd Place - The swift tiger beetle (Cylindera celeripes) Alabaster Caverns State Park in Woodward Co., OK Photographer: Ted MacRae

3rd Place - “Cotton Candy on Ice” Queen of the Prairie (Filipendula rubra) Fayette Co., IL Photographer: Pete Kozich

Honorable Mention - A ringed salamander, St Louis, Co., MO Photographer: Rachel Odman

2023 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Invertebrates

1st Place - Spotted orb weaver (Neoscona crucifera) Pinewoods Lake Recreation Area, Carter Co., MO Photographer: Ted MacRae

2nd Place - A Golden-legged Mydas Fly (Mydas tibialis) is seen here working over a Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) flower, Horn Prairie, IL Photographer: David Seidensticker

3rd Place: Green Darners, St Charles, Co., MO Photographer: Casey Galvin

Honorable Mention - A Halactid bee (Augochlora pura) pollinating a three-bird orchid (Triphora trianthophora), Babler SP, MO Photographer: Bill Duncan

2023 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Vertebrates

1st Place - The handoff. This image was taken at Weldon Spring Conservation Area in St. Charles Co., MO Photographer: Bill Duncan

2nd Place - Eastern yellow-bellied racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) , Katy Trail, MO Photographer: Kyran Leeker

3rd Place - Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos) Sam A. Baker S.P. Wayne County, MO Photographer: Ted MacRae

Honorable Mention - "A Little Fish" little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) , Carondelet Park, St Louis, MO Photographer: Becky Hansis-O’Neil

2023 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Fungi and Plants

1st Place - Butterfly Milkweed, Northern Illinois Photographer: Casey Galvin

2nd Place - Individual florets of Perideridia americana (eastern yampah) at Gist Ranch C.A Photographer: Steve Turner

3rd Place - Ostrich ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris), Gray Summit, MO Photographer: Daria McKelvey

Honorable Mention - Pawpaw Flower, Ozark Trail in Wayne Co., MO Photographer: Ted MacRae