2020-2021 Photo Contest
The Winning Pictures are up!
Come out and vote for your favorites*
* Masks are required and please observe Covid guidelines
Best of Show Judges' Award
Michael Schmitt of Grayslake for Wood Duck
Best of Show
Best of Show People's Choice
Ken Olsen of Palatine for Peekaboo
Color Plant
1st Place
Deanna Moran for "Lily Pad Seed Pod"
2nd Place
John Berwanger for "Copper River"
3rd Place
Deanna Moran for "Milkweed"
Beyond the Midwest
1st Place
Sari Nienaber for "Crater Lake Sunrise, Kelimutu Nature Preserve"
2nd Place
Joseph Norton for "Cheetah Cubs in Maasai Mara, Kenya"
3rd Place
Joseph Norton for "Lions Cubs in Mud"
Black and White Animal
1st Place
Michael Anthony Schmitt
for "Wood Duck Reflections"
2nd Place
Stacey Greenhill for "Barn Owl"
3rd Place
Sari Nienaber for "Time for a Manicure"
Black and White Plant
1st Place
Brandie Dunn for "Neowise Over the Straits of Mackinac"
2nd Place
Anthony Roma for "Lake in the Woods"
3rd Place
John Berwanger for "Big Bog Lake"
Color Invertibrate
1st Place
John Berwanger for "Hummingbird Moth Feeding on a Milkweed"
2nd Place
Michael Michael Anthony Schmitt for "Honeybee on Virginia Spiderwort"
3rd Place
Kelly Kuningas for "Monarchs on Spiderwort"
Color Landscape
Color Vertibrates
1st Place
Michael Michael Anthony Schmitt for "Pileated Woodpecker Feeds Her Young"
2nd Place
Ken Olsen for "Peekaboo"
3rd Place
Joe Norton for "Peekaboo - Great Horned Owlet"
People and Pets in Nature
1st Place
Stacey Greenhill for "Double Greenhill"
2nd Place
Anthony Roma for "Overlooking the Valley"
3rd Place
Jessica Lanners for "Caught It"