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Description of Subject Matter: Nature's Best Photography: A Celebration of Nature:
Created in 1995 to honor and foster the efforts of photographers worldwide, the annual Nature's Best Photography Awards program has become one of the most visually compelling outdoor photography competitions of today. Over the past decade, more than 100,000 images have been submitted by professional, amateur, and youth photographers alike, all competing to be recognized as the best.
The dramatic photographs in this exhibit represent Grand Prize winners from the past ten years and the most recent annual award winners from 2005. Gathered from the farthest reaches of the globe, each image reflects the talent, creativity, and tireless dedication of the men and women who share the wonders of the natural world through their photography.
Through these remarkable combinations of subject, light, color, and composition, we may witness the world around us in new ways, and are moved to embrace and protect it for ourselves and future generations.
Windland Smith Rice Awards:
Life is about passion, the intense and undeniable emotion that fills the body with overwhelming energy and strength. It allows good people to become great people -- their passion so contagious that their words and their deeds inspire others to follow and rise to do great things. Sandra Windland Smith Rice was one of these people, so filled with passion for nature and photography, so passionate about protecting our environment for future generations.
An accomplished photographer and determined advocate for inspiring greater public interest in conserving nature through the art of photography, Windland began an alliance with Nature's Best Photography in 1999 when she won the Animal Antics category. Serving as Master of Ceremonies for numerous Nature's Best Photography Awards events at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Windland and her charismatic style enlightened, entertained, and motivated audiences of all ages and backgrounds, from youn ...More...
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras.
Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival.
Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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