Judges Introduced for 2026 Audubon Nature Photography Contest | Information, Sports activities, Jobs

Entries are coming in for Audubon Community Nature Center’s 2026 Nature Photography Contest. With $1,600 in prize cash, youth and adults compete individually within the classes of Close-ups, Wildlife in Action, and ACNC Outdoors. Pictured is 2025 Youth Single Bloom winner “Emerging,” taken by Addison Becker of Jamestown, N.Y.

The Audubon Community Nature Center has introduced the judges for its 2026 Nature Photography Contest that may award a complete of $1,600 in prizes.

Judging this 12 months’s competitors are Sandra Rothenberg and Mark Evans. In addition to many years of expertise in pictures and a number of exhibitions, each have been acknowledged for his or her work and had it printed. Details of their backgrounds may be discovered on the Judges web page on the competition web site, AudubonCNC.org/Photo-Contest.

Rothenberg and Evans will select the winners and three honorable mentions in each the Youth (ages 8-18) and Adult classes of Close-ups, Wildlife in Action, and ACNC Outdoors. All winners obtain a $200 money prize. Adult and youth pictures receiving probably the most Community Choice votes on-line may also be awarded $200. A photograph may obtain each the Community Choice and a judged award.

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

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

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

As properly because the technical aspect of the picture (lighting, crispness, and framing), the judges shall be searching for pictures which can be highly effective, that contact them and draw them in. According to Evans, they’re searching for pictures that, in the event that they have been in a gallery, would make them return two or thrice simply to take a look at them once more.

Winners and honorable mentions shall be displayed on the web site and introduced in a broadly distributed information launch. Audubon will print the profitable judged pictures and exhibit them within the Nature Center, and a information launch will go to their native media, when recognized.

Full particulars of the competitors are at AudubonCNC.org/Photo-Contest, the place you may submit pictures, vote on entries, and see earlier contest winners. Social media buttons are posted beside the entries so family and friends may be inspired to vote for them. The sooner pictures are submitted, the longer they will obtain votes.

The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, June 30.