One by one, until there are none No.2 by Janelle Budell. All Rights Reserved. It is my hope that any of these portraits could help inspire someone to form a connection with these endangered animals and hopefully move them enough to want to help conserve them for future generations. What would the world be like without these endangered species? If these declines continue without help from our own human race, all that will remain are distant legends.
SUBMISSION: One by one, until there are none by Janelle Budell
One by one, until there are none by Janelle Budell. All Rights Reserved. It is my hope that any of these portraits could help inspire someone to form a connection with these endangered animals and hopefully move them enough to want to help conserve them for future generations. What would the world be like without these endangered species? If these declines continue without help from our own human race, all that will remain are distant legends.
SUBMISSION: Only the Lonely by Jane Ruprecht
Only the Lonely by Jane Ruprecht. All Rights Reserved. My interest in photography goes back to my middle school years when I belonged to the photography club. There I learned about composition, working the camera, and dark room skills. Of course those were the days of black & white film. While teaching I also worked part-time for 4 years at a Wildlife Art Gallery where I learned all the facets of art, framing, color, and matting. As an educator of 34 years, I enjoy traveling and my pictures reflect many of the unique places I have visited.
When looking for pictures, I explore nature and natural items in our surroundings and work at taking the ordinary and show it as significantly extraordinary. Always trying to see things from different and unusual points of view, I will lie on the ground or go places others might not go to to get the picture I visualize. As I take my photos, I work to crop and frame as I shoot, thus reducing the need for any adjustments later.
SUBMISSION: Natures Wonders in Florida by Howard Greenberg
Natures Wonders in Florida by Howard Greenberg. All Rights Reserved. While living in Florida for three months a year, I travel to various parks and preserves. This poster is result of the fun pix I took of nature’s best. I tried to capture the grace, color and feeling of these fine creatures.
SUBMISSIONS: Emerging Wolf by Daria Davis
Emerging Wolf by Daria Davis. All Rights Reserved. Connection is the intention of my work. My approach to receiving images is through slowing down, breathing deeply and spending time with the subject whether it is animate or inanimate.
I want to forget everything I know or even imagine about my subject in order to see it anew. Instead of observing a being, object or scene, I’m watching light play with shadow. I’m noticing rough surfaces against velvety softness; colors merging and contrasting. I’m looking for the essence of my subject; for its energy, for something that invites the viewer to engage with and wonder about what they are seeing. I want the image to allude to a story that isn’t quite told in the image itself.”
My photography has been exhibited at The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC; The Cornelius Art Center, Cornelius, NC and other exhibits and has been published in Currents Magazine. A native of Tennessee, I now reside in NC.
SUBMISSION: Monet 1918 by Sharky Malkovich
Monet 1918 by Sharky Malkovich. All Rights Reserved. When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
SUBMISSION: Tenuous Hold by Connie Bransilver
Tenuous Hold by Connie Bransilver. All Rights Reserved. I want to conspire with the viewer to tell a story in one captured moment. We are each involved. The viewer’s life’s experience shapes his response. My curiosity, patience, timing and knowledge of the subject bring an enigmatic instant to life, Cartier-Bresson’s ‘Critical Moment.’ The image presented on paper, canvas or fabric is unchanging, but the interpretation can be unique to each viewer. It is that multi-layered story that I aim to tell.
Using the best possible camera and field techniques, mastering the plays of natural light and shadow, I present the story my mind saw. Mine is the art of the natural world and of the heart.
If, as I believe, photographs are self-portraits of the artist’s vision, then mine are emotional, clean and clear and straight forward images of captured light as the essence of life. And they are invariably joyful. With me, silence the cacophony and isolate one element.
SUBMISSION: A Delicate Balance by John Bice
A Delicate Balance by John Bice. All Rights Reserved. The Everglades is home to many endangered species. The health of the Everglades itself is precariously perched on the edge of destruction.
Only through vigilant eco management will it survive. It is a delicate balance.
SUBMISSION: Mere Shadow of Her Former Self by Diane Morgan
Mere Shadow of Her Former Self by Diane Morgan. All Rights Reserved.
SUBMISSION: Elephant by Nicholas Mariano
Elephant by Nicholas Mariano. All Rights Reserved. I’ve been fortunate enough to get to travel around the world in connection with my work and as a result have gathered some great photographs of people, places and things. I have also held a number of benefits for the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust that supports saving elephants before it is too late.
SUBMISSION: A Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp by Pat Swain
A Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp by Pat Swain. All Rights Reserved. This series, ‘Global Warming: Unlikely Water Animals’, is an exploration of ‘misplaced’ non-water animals in rising coastal shorelines due to global warming. It brings to question if this is merely a visit or their new habitat. The backdrop of these coastlines (at times threatening) emphasizes the vulnerability and mortality of these creatures confronting a new and impossible environment. The animals range from endangered, wild, farm and some with disabilities.
SUBMISSION: Surveying His Realm by Jerry Biddlecom
Surveying His Realm by Jerry Biddlecom. All Rights Reserved.
SUBMISSION: Florida Panther by Dennis Goodman
Florida Panther. Photograph by Dennis Goodman. All Rights Reserved. Nature’s beauty has always amazed me. I realized that I had a tremendous passion for preserving my visions through photography when I was in high school.
Most of my photography comes from the Florida Everglades and Florida’s natural beauty. The connection I have when I am in the Everglades is indescribable. My inspiration comes from the beauty in nature and it has become spiritual expedition as well. Being outdoors and being a witness to God’s creations inspires me every time I go out to take pictures.
My goal as an artist is to showcase the beauty and wonders that surround this world today as I see it. The ever changing light and the details of the swamp are captured in the hidden world we often do not see or experience.
My work has been published in several publications such as GulfShore Life, Destination Naples, Naples Daily News, Ava Maria College and many other magazines and publications.
SUBMISSION: Pygmy Sloth by Kirsten Hines
Pygmy Sloth. Photograph by Kirsten Hines. All Rights Reserved. Compelled by a life-long passion for the environment, I photograph wildlife and nature. Traveling around the world to explore both familiar and novel environs, I seek to capture spontaneous wildlife moments and unique perspectives on nature. I aim to lure viewers more deeply into the natural world than they might venture on their own. I strive to evoke the experience of being in nature by photographing un-manipulated scenes and minimally post-processing images, to most accurately convey wilderness in its organic state.
My photographic collections include: ‘Nature in Abstract,’ stylistically revealing art in nature; ‘Nature and Travel,’ emphasizing portraits of wildlife and habitats around the world; and ‘South Florida Birds and Gardens,’ inspiring bird-friendly landscaping through an intimate view of birds and plants, featured in my two award-winning books. With all my work, I hope to restore human connections to the planet that have too long been neglected.
SUBMISSION: Olympic Marmot by Kirsten Hines
Olympic Marmot. Photograph by Kirsten Hines. All Rights Reserved. Compelled by a life-long passion for the environment, I photograph wildlife and nature. Traveling around the world to explore both familiar and novel environs, I seek to capture spontaneous wildlife moments and unique perspectives on nature. I aim to lure viewers more deeply into the natural world than they might venture on their own. I strive to evoke the experience of being in nature by photographing un-manipulated scenes and minimally post-processing images, to most accurately convey wilderness in its organic state.
My photographic collections include: ‘Nature in Abstract,’ stylistically revealing art in nature; ‘Nature and Travel,’ emphasizing portraits of wildlife and habitats around the world; and ‘South Florida Birds and Gardens,’ inspiring bird-friendly landscaping through an intimate view of birds and plants, featured in my two award-winning books. With all my work, I hope to restore human connections to the planet that have too long been neglected.
SUBMISSION: Tunnel of Ice by Kirsten Hines
Tunnel of Ice. Photograph by Kirsten Hines. All Rights Reserved. Compelled by a life-long passion for the environment, I photograph wildlife and nature. Traveling around the world to explore both familiar and novel environs, I seek to capture spontaneous wildlife moments and unique perspectives on nature. I aim to lure viewers more deeply into the natural world than they might venture on their own. I strive to evoke the experience of being in nature by photographing un-manipulated scenes and minimally post-processing images, to most accurately convey wilderness in its organic state.
My photographic collections include: ‘Nature in Abstract,’ stylistically revealing art in nature; ‘Nature and Travel,’ emphasizing portraits of wildlife and habitats around the world; and ‘South Florida Birds and Gardens,’ inspiring bird-friendly landscaping through an intimate view of birds and plants, featured in my two award-winning books. With all my work, I hope to restore human connections to the planet that have too long been neglected.
SUBMISSION: Helping Hand by Kirsten Hines
Helping Hand. Photograph by Kirsten Hines. All Rights Reserved. Compelled by a life-long passion for the environment, I photograph wildlife and nature. Traveling around the world to explore both familiar and novel environs, I seek to capture spontaneous wildlife moments and unique perspectives on nature. I aim to lure viewers more deeply into the natural world than they might venture on their own. I strive to evoke the experience of being in nature by photographing un-manipulated scenes and minimally post-processing images, to most accurately convey wilderness in its organic state. My photographic collections include: ‘Nature in Abstract,’ stylistically revealing art in nature; ‘Nature and Travel,’ emphasizing portraits of wildlife and habitats around the world; and ‘South Florida Birds and Gardens,’ inspiring bird-friendly landscaping through an intimate view of birds and plants, featured in my two award-winning books. With all my work, I hope to restore human connections to the planet that have too long been neglected.
SUBMISSION: Into the Light by E. Magnuson
Into the Light. Photograph by E, Magnuson. All Rights Reserved. Monarch butterfly in metamorphosis.
I have been an artist for the last ten years. I like conveying the warmth of nature's tumultuous emotions, and capturing that moment in nature when time suddenly stands still, and escaping into the mystical world we live in.
SUBMISSION: Busy Bee by E. Magnuson
Busy Bee. Photograph by E. Magnuson. All Rights Reserved. I have been an artist for the last ten years.
As an artist I like conveying the warmth of nature's tumultuous emotions, and capturing that moment in nature when time suddenly stands still and I am able to escape into the mystical world we live in.
PHOTOGRAPHY EQUAL 2ND PRIZE: Sisters, Masai Mara, Kenya by Pekka Järventaus
The Second Prize for Photography in the ENDANGERED Art & Photography Contest 2016 is shared by four wonderful images. Congratulations to Equal Second Prize Winner: Sisters, Masai Mara, Kenya by Pekka Järventaus. All Rights Reserved.
With my lion series, I am aiming to go beyond traditional documentary photography to convey the magical qualities of lions that intrigues me the most. In order to do so, I prefer to work with lions in the wild. Lions in captivity does not have the majestic presence that I look for and I want to portrait them in their natural habitat. I photograph mostly in black and white to avoid the distraction of colors. I want my images to have a timeless feel and I want to focus on shape, light and form but at the same time capture and explore the complexity and the essence of the iconic lion. I also prefer to work during stormy and rainy days. I need the sense of movement, drama and uncertainty that the wind and rain adds to the scene. It symbolizes the world in which lions live, a world of uncertainty and danger but also a world of bravery and pride.
See more of Pekka's work at www.prowlingwithlions.com