BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Nature's Best International Photography Awards (2017)

DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Nature's Best International Photography Awards (2017):

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SINHNB_171026_009.JPG: Highly Honored Landscapes Generoso Mountain Switzerland by Massimo Ghelfi, Verese, Italy
2. SINHNB_171026_014.JPG: Winner Youth Southern Carmine Bee-Eaters South Luangwa, National Park, Zambia by Zachary Webster, Lincoln, Massachusetts
3. SINHNB_171026_018.JPG: Grand Prize Gentoo Penguin & Chick Brown Bluff, Antarctica by Deborah Albert, Charleston, WV
4. SINHNB_171026_033.JPG: Audubon Photo Awards
5. SINHNB_171026_036.JPG: Winner Professional Great Gray Owl Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming by Steve Mattheis, Jackson, Wyoming
6. SINHNB_171026_042.JPG: Highly Honored Birds Resplendent Quetzals San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica by Greg Barsh, Huntsville, Alabama
7. SINHNB_171026_050.JPG: Highly Honored Birds Atlantic Puffin Grimsey Island, Iceland by Ann M. Pacheco, Mansfield Center, Connecticut
8. SINHNB_171026_054.JPG: Highly Honored Birds Barn Owl Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah by John Blumenkamp, Salt Lake City, Utah
9. SINHNB_171026_058.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Cape Fur Seals Kabini, India by Greg Lecoeur, Nice, France
10. SINHNB_171026_062.JPG: Winner Birds Western Grebes San Diego, California by Thanh Tran, Westminster, California
11. SINHNB_171026_068.JPG: Highly Honored Wildlife Brown Bear Katmai National Park & Preserve, Alaska by Michael J. Cohen, Lighthouse Point, Florida
12. SINHNB_171026_075.JPG: Highly Honored Wildlife Bengal Tiger & Cub Banghavgarh National Park, Mahadra Pradesh, India by Steve Winter, Hoboken, NJ
13. SINHNB_171026_084.JPG: Highly Honored Wildlife American Mustangs McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Management Area, Near Cody, Wyoming by R.J. Walter, Ketchum, Idaho
14. SINHNB_171026_087.JPG: Capturing the Moment
15. SINHNB_171026_096.JPG: Highly Honored Polar Passion Emperor Penguin Chicks Antarctica by Ying Gu Szenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China
16. SINHNB_171026_102.JPG: Highly Honored Polar Passion Polar Bears Kaktovik, Alaska by Shayne McGuire, San Dimas, California
17. SINHNB_171026_116.JPG: Conservation Story
18. SINHNB_171026_120.JPG: Winner Polar Passion Polar Bear & Cub Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada by Ying Gu, Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China
19. SINHNB_171026_126.JPG: Highly Honored Polar Passion Svalbard Reindeer Svalbard, Norway by Ingo Arndt, Langen, Germany
20. SINHNB_171026_137.JPG: Highly Honored African Wildlife African Lions Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya by Amy Shutt, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
21. SINHNB_171026_140.JPG: Highly Honored African Wildlife African Fish Eagle & Goliath Heron Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa by Max Waugh, Seattle, Washington
22. SINHNB_171026_149.JPG: Winner African Wildlife Reticulated Giraffes Samburu National Reserve, Kenya by Pipe Mackay, Long Beach, California
23. SINHNB_171026_160.JPG: Highly Honored African Wildlife Mountain Gorilla Volcanoes National Park, Virunga Mountains, Rwanda
24. SINHNB_171026_164.JPG: Highly Honored African Wildlife Cheetah Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya by David Lloyd, London, England
25. SINHNB_171026_171.JPG: Africa
26. SINHNB_171026_175.JPG: Highly Honored African Elephant & Burchell's Zebras Nxai Pan National Park, Kalahari Desert, Botswana by Richard Hebhardt, Juneau, Alaska
27. SINHNB_171026_181.JPG: Winner Wildlife Bengal Tigers Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, Rahasthan, India by Rahul Sachdev, Pune, Maharashtra, India
28. SINHNB_171026_187.JPG: Grand Prize African Lioness Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya by Lakshitha Karunarathna, Colombia, Sri Lanka
29. SINHNB_171026_193.JPG: Journey from the Wild to the Walls of the Smithsonian
30. SINHNB_171026_201.JPG: Earth's Largest Continent
31. SINHNB_171026_203.JPG: Asia Lumix Award Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey Shanxi Province, China by Din Kuanling, Hubei, China
32. SINHNB_171026_209.JPG: Asia Winner Wildlife Japanese Macaque Arashiyama, Kyoto City, Japan by Shinichi Masuda, Tokyo, Japan
33. SINHNB_171026_211.JPG: Asia Winner Landscapes Snowfall Biei Hokkaido, Japan by Yusuke Hayashi, Hokkaido, Japan
34. SINHNB_171026_215.JPG: Asia Highly Honored Birds Japanese White-Eye Suzuka Forest Garden, Mie, Japan by Yoshimasa Sugitate, Shiga, Japan
35. SINHNB_171026_225.JPG: Highly Honored Landscapes Cuernos del Paine Torres del Paine National Park, Chile by Cristobal Serrano, Alicante, Spain
36. SINHNB_171026_229.JPG: Highly Honored Landscapes Chapada Dos Veadeiros National Park Goias, Brazil by Marcio Cabral, Brasilia, Brazil
37. SINHNB_171026_241.JPG: Asia Winner Small World Potter Wasp Coimbatore, India by Karthikeyan Shanmugasundaram, Coimbatore, India
38. SINHNB_171026_245.JPG: Asia Highly Honored Wildlife Ezo Red Fox with Salmon Rausu, Shiretoko, Japan by Shinji Sato, Hokkaido, Japan
39. SINHNB_171026_250.JPG: Asia Winner Oceans North Pacific Giant Octopus Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan by Toru Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
40. SINHNB_171026_255.JPG: Asia Winner Birds Baya Weavers Uran, Mumbai, India by Krishnan Venkitachalam, Mumbai, India
41. SINHNB_171026_260.JPG: Asia Highly Honored Wildlife Black-Footed Gray Langurs Kabini, India by Thomas Vijayan, Oakville, Canada
42. SINHNB_171026_270.JPG: Asia Winner Grand Prize Borobudur Temple Compounds Mageland, Java, Indonesia by Handi Laksono, Surabaya, Indonesia
43. SINHNB_171026_277.JPG: Highly Honored Landscapes Catawba Rhododendrons Roan Mountain, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina by Thomas D. Mangelsen, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
44. SINHNB_171026_288.JPG: Highly Honored Landscapes Many Glacier Valley Glacier National Park, Montana by Zack Clothier, Victor, Montana
45. SINHNB_171026_293.JPG: Youth
46. SINHNB_171026_294.JPG: Highly Honored Youth Coquerel's Sifaka Anjajavy Private Reserve, Madagascar by Louis Pattyn, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
47. SINHNB_171026_298.JPG: Highly Honored Youth Saddle-Billed Stork Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia by Zachary Webster, Lincoln, Massachusetts
48. SINHNB_171026_307.JPG: Highly Honored Youth Rocky Mountain Elk Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado by Chase Opperman, Woodbury, Minnesota
49. SINHNB_171026_311.JPG: Youth Photographer of the Year Brown Bear Cubs Lake Clark National Park, Alaska by Ashleigh Scully, age 15, Morristown, NJ
50. SINHNB_171026_322.JPG: Highly Honored Wildlife Red Fox Jumping Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming by Ashleigh Scully, Morristown, NJ
51. SINHNB_171026_325.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Lava Kalapana Coast, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Hawai'i by Nolan Nitschke, Bishop, CA
52. SINHNB_171026_331.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Great White Shark Guadaloupe Island, Mexico by Marko Dimitrijevic, Miami, Florida
53. SINHNB_171026_336.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Silky Shark Jardines de la Reina, Cuba by Michael Aw Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia
54. SINHNB_171026_340.JPG: Winner Ocean Views California Sea Lions Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, California by Andrew Sallmon, San Diego, CA
55. SINHNB_171026_346.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Common Cuttlefish Giglio Island, Italy by Filippo Borghi, Siena, Italy
56. SINHNB_171026_353.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Ribbon Eel Lambeh Strait, Indonesia by Eduardo Acevedo, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
57. SINHNB_171026_365.JPG: Highly Honored Wildlife Cougar Patagonia, Chile by Max Waugh, Seattle, Washington
58. SINHNB_171026_372.JPG: Highly Honored Outdoor Adventure Hikers High Dune, Great San Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado by Michael DeYoung, Taos, New Mexico
59. SINHNB_171026_377.JPG: Highly Honored Outdoor Adventure Mountain Biking Single Trail Park, Jamnica, Prevalje, Slovenia by Han Shacham, Modiin, Israel
60. SINHNB_171026_386.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Porcelain Crab Lambeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia by Massimo Giorgetta, Latina, Italy
61. SINHNB_171026_394.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views King Penguins Falkland Islands by Wim van den Heever, Pretoria, South Africa
62. SINHNB_171026_410.JPG: Highly Honored Ocean Views Cape Fur Seal Kabini, India, Simon's Town, South Africa by Greg Lecoeur, Nice, France
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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 young teenagers to seasoned ambassadors and lawmakers.
In her memory, the Nature's Best Foundation created the Windland Smith Rice Awards to recognize and fund the efforts of emerging photographers. The first recipient of these awards are the finalists from the 2004 and 2005 Nature's Best Photography Awards Youth category, representing the future of nature photojournalism. Windland's legacy will fuel the passion of young photographers for generations to come.
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