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 can 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 revealed. Details of their backgrounds might 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 photographs receiving essentially the most Community Choice votes on-line may also be awarded $200. A photograph might obtain each the Community Choice and a judged award.

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

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

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

As nicely because the technical aspect of the picture (lighting, crispness, and framing), the judges can be on the lookout for photos which can be highly effective, that contact them and draw them in. According to Evans, they’re on the lookout for photographs that, in the event that they had been in a gallery, would make them return two or 3 times simply to take a look at them once more.

Winners and honorable mentions can be displayed on the web site and introduced in a extensively distributed information launch. Audubon will print the profitable judged photographs 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’ll be able to submit photographs, vote on entries, and see earlier contest winners. Social media buttons are posted beside the entries so family and friends might be inspired to vote for them. The sooner photographs are submitted, the longer they’ll obtain votes.

The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, June 30.