(WNY News Now) – Jamestown, N.Y. – Are you ready to showcase your photography skills and win $200? The Audubon Community Nature Center’s 2024 Nature Photography Contest is now open for submissions!
You could be one of the eight photographers, youth and adults, who win $200 in the Audubon Community Nature Center 2024 Nature Photography Contest.
But you need to start taking pictures or choosing from your collection now to make your submissions by the Sunday, July 7 deadline.
Judges will choose the Youth and Adult winners in the categories of Wildlife, Scapes, and Macros and Close-up Details. In addition to $200 cash prizes, all winners will have their photographs printed and exhibited in the Nature Center. Eighteen finalists will also be named, three in each category.
Two additional $200 cash prizes are awarded for the Adult and Youth photos receiving the most Community Choice votes online. A photo could receive both the Community Choice and a judged award. Social media buttons are posted beside your images so you can encourage friends and family to vote for your photos.
All winning and finalist photographs will be displayed on the contest website and announced in a widely distributed news release.
Adult is age 19 or older or out of high school at the end of the contest. Youth is ages 8 to 18, or still in high school at the end of the contest.
Categories are:
- Wildlife: Any wild animal is acceptable, including birds, mammals, fish, snails, insects, etc. Photographs of animals in captivity, such as pets, zoo residents, or rehab/education animals are not accepted.
- Scapes: Landscapes, plantscapes, seascapes, weather, clouds, rainbow, mountains, ponds, or any view that you find beautiful.
- Macros and Close-up Details: Close-up shots of small things or close-up details of large things, like an animal’s eye or a detail on a fossil.
Not a photographer? Support nature education by voting for your favorite entries.
Deadline for submissions and voting on your favorites is Sunday, July 7, 2024. Full details are at GoGoPhotocontest.com/ACNCPhotoContest2024, where you can see previous contest winners and honorable mentions.
Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown, N.Y., and Warren, Pa. You can visit the nearly 600-acre nature preserve, check in on the live birds of prey, enjoy the natural play space, and hike more than five miles of trails dawn until dusk daily for free.
The three-story Nature Center building houses interactive displays, a collection of live animals including the Hellbender exhibit, the 2023 Nature Photography Contest winners, and the Blue Heron Gift Shop. Visitors are welcome Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and Sundays, 1–4:30 p.m. Nature Center members and SNAP/EBT cardholders have free building admission daily. Building admission is also free every Sunday for non-Nature Center members.
To learn more about Audubon and its many programs, call (716) 569-2345, find Audubon Community Nature Center on Facebook, or visit AudubonCNC.org. Check out AudubonCNC.org/about for a quick fly-by visit.
Audubon Community Nature Center builds and nurtures connections between people and nature by providing positive outdoor experiences, opportunities to learn about and understand the natural world, and knowledge to act in environmentally responsible ways.
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