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The Audubon Community Nature Center is accepting entries in its 2026 Nature Photography Contest. With $1,600 in prize cash, youth and adults compete within the classes of Close-ups, Wildlife in Action, and ACNC Outdoors. Pictured is 2025 Adult Single Bloom winner “Dragonfly on Waterlily” by Michael Weishan of Cattaraugus.

The Audubon Community Nature Center is accepting entries for its 2026 Nature Photography Contest.

With awards totaling $1,600, adults and youth (ages 8-18) can submit photographs to 3 completely different classes, every paying $200 to the profitable picture.

Cash prizes of $200 may even be awarded to the grownup and youth photographs receiving probably the most Community Choice votes on-line. A photograph may obtain each the Community Choice and a judged award.

Judges will select the grownup and youth winners in addition to three honorable mentions within the following classes: Close-ups, Wildlife in Action, and ACNC Outdoors. All winners obtain a $200 money prize.

The Close-ups class celebrates the fantastic thing about the “small stuff” that always goes unnoticed.

Wildlife in Action is all about motion, habits, and the heart beat of life, exhibiting animals doing what they do finest.

ACNC Outdoors is devoted particularly to the sweetness discovered throughout the trails, wetlands, and forests of Audubon Community Nature Center.

Winning and honorable point out pictures will likely be displayed on the competition web site. ACNC will print the profitable judged photographs to exhibit within the Nature Center, and winners will likely be introduced in a information launch that’s extensively distributed, together with to their native media when recognized.

Full particulars of the competitors are at AudubonCNC.org/Photo-Contest, the place you may submit photographs, vote on entries, and see earlier contest winners.

The sooner pictures are submitted, the longer the general public can vote for them for the Community Choice awards. Photographers are reminded to encourage family and friends to vote for his or her picture(s). All the social media buttons are on the competition web site for postings.

The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, June 30.

Audubon Community Nature Center is situated at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. Visit the almost 600-acre nature protect, look in on the dwell birds of prey, benefit from the pure play house, and hike, snowshoe or cross nation ski over 5 miles of trails daybreak till nightfall each day without spending a dime.

The three-story Nature Center constructing homes interactive shows, a set of dwell animals, the 2025 Nature Photography Contest winners, and the Blue Heron Gift Shop. Visitors are welcome Mondays by means of Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and Sundays, 1-4:30 p.m. Nature Center members and SNAP/EBT and Arts Access cardholders have free constructing admission each day. Building admission can be free Sundays for non-Nature Center members.

To be taught extra about Audubon and its many packages, name (716) 569-2345, discover Audubon Community Nature Center on Facebook or Instagram, or go to AudubonCNC.org. Check out AudubonCNC.org/about for a fast fly-by.

Audubon Community Nature Center builds and nurtures connections between individuals and nature by offering optimistic outside experiences, alternatives to study and perceive the pure world, and data to behave in environmentally accountable methods.