START AN ENTRY NOW and your best image may make the journey from the wild to the walls of the Smithsonian. Winners in each category and a selection of Highly Honored photographs will be displayed in the annual exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, one of the most respected and highly visited museums in the world. All winning images will be published in the 2012 Fall-Winter Collectors’ Edition of Nature’s Best Photography magazine.
Start an entry by 11:59 pm EST on Thursday, May 31th, and we will make sure you can finish your uploads. Thank you to everyone who already started and completed your entry on time, you will be judged first starting on June 1.  BEST OF LUCK!

JUDGING BEGINS JUNE 1: We will still be judging the entries in the order they were submitted, i.e. the first 10 entry submissions we received this year will be the first 10 entrants judged and so on until we reach the very last entry submitted. So, if you entered earlier you will be reviewed earlier.

Best of luck for this year, maybe your image will make the journey from the wild to the walls of the Smithsonian, one of the most respected and highly visited museums on Earth. Check out this year’s Awards HD video for a selection of images from the 2011 competition and give it a thumbs up! At the end, there are cute polar bear cubs filmed by the team of Thomas D. Mangelsen, the Conservation Photographer of the Year.

Steve Freligh, Director
Windland Smith Rice Awards

On Tuesday, April 24th, winners in this year’s Awards Exhibition traveled to Washington, DC, and were treated to a reception for the photographers, sponsors, and supporters of the 2011 Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards. Congratulated by the Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Cristián Samper (middle) and Nature’s Best Photography Director, Steve Freligh (far right), are pictured here from left: Youth Photographer of the Year, Jess Findlay; Art in Nature Winner, David Hall; Power of Nature Winner, David Bahr; Wildlife Winner, Florian Schulz; Zoos and Aquariums Winner, Barbara von Hoffmann; Birds Winner, Michael Rosenbaum; Endangered Species Winner, Michael Lambie; African Wildlife and People in Nature Winner, Lee Slabber; Conservation Photographer of the Year, Thomas D. Mangelsen; and the Grand Prize Winner, Federico Veronesi.

YOU may be a winner in this year’s competition, but THE DEADLINE IS CLOSING IN! CLICK HERE  TO START AN ENTRY NOW. 
You will be able to save and add to your entry before the end of the contest. If you need help, call us at 703-467-9783 and clearly leave your name, phone number, and email address.

Go online to www.naturesbestphotography.com to see all the details, and see Galleries of past years’ winners. GOOD LUCK!

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Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards is now accepting submissions. ENTER NOW for a chance to be displayed at one of the world’s most-visited museums. Click on www.NaturesBestPhotography.com for guidelines to enter this prestigious annual competition open to pros, amateurs, and youth around the globe. UPLOAD YOUR ENTRIES

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• Notes From the Field: “I had moved down to Montana for 1 year over 2010 and 2011. During that time I was going to Yellowstone almost every day and it made for some very interesting shot opportunities. On this particular day, I noticed a herd of Buffalo down in the bottom. As luck would have it, they started to come up the mountain side single file through the deep snow. I knew that as they crested the snow bank I was very likely to get some unique shot opportunities. I checked their direction and positioned myself to be in front of them as they came up over the snow bank. Most of them as they topped the snow bank, saw me and cut off to either side, nice shots but not quite what I was looking for. I wanted one cresting the top in my direction. My patience was rewarded when this big bull came straight over the snow bank, with the snow flying. The shot was exactly what I had planned.
  The shot was taken on 01/22/2011
  Focal Length: 105 mm
  F. Stop: 4.5
  Exposure time: 1/1250” – Buck Shreck

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