I am an avid nature photographer. I take at least one picture every day. My favorite subjects are birds and lighthouses. If you find my photography pleasing and want to use any of my photos for non-commercial purposes, please ask for permission.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Contest pictures

It is time to enter the yearly Birds and Blooms photo contest.  They have changed the rules a little.  You can only enter 1 photo in each of 4 categories.  I only have entries that qualify for 3 of the categories.  It use to be that you could enter 6 photos.  One could enter them all in the same category if they chose to do so.  So the categories that I am entering in are:  Best of Birds, Best of Butterflies, and Best of Flowers.  I put seven pictures of flowers on facebook to see what other people would chose.  The big winner is this one.


The bird one I am going to enter is of the eagles in Eagle River, Alaska.



And finally the butterfly picture is one I took in South Dakota at the State Capital in Pierre.  I have that one entered in a Dakota photo contest and the people really like it.


I never win, but from the ones I have entered in the contest, I have had two of them published in the magazine at other times.  I also sent a picture in of a pheasant I had taken in Brown County, SD.  I wrote a story about the picture and about the pheasant and that was published.  It is always fun to see your photo in print.

I won't know for almost a year how these pictures have done.  Time will tell----perhaps we will see them in the magazine sometime.