See the profitable picture within the Minnesota Star Tribune nature picture contest

Judging from his preliminary outcomes together with his new digital camera, Eric Groshens’ birding images is withdrawing.

Groshens’ hanging picture of a feminine red-winged blackbird clinging to cattail stalks is the winner of the Minnesota Star Tribune’s spring nature picture contest.

The Elk River man captured the second whereas on a path close to the shore at Twin Lakes City Park in close by Nowthen shortly after he purchased a brand new Sony digital camera.

The Minnesota Star Tribune photographers who judged contest submissions singled out Groshens’ {photograph} for the symmetry of the small chook’s legs clinging individually to stalks, as if scaling a slender house. He was blissful, too, when he acquired dwelling and checked out his pictures.

“That is a unique picture to capture,” he stated.

Groshens, who additionally gained an honorable point out with a unique picture within the contest, stated his constructing curiosity in chook images is pushed by his efforts to spend extra time exterior. He is even discovering assist at his job at Dedicated Networks in Brooklyn Park, the place he’s an account supervisor.

One of his conferences features a “bird segment” the place he and his colleagues share their images. A buddy inspired him to submit his solitary red-winged blackbird in a photograph contest.