The Nature Conservancy Announces 2018 Global Photo Contest Winners
ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#nature–Today, The Nature Conservancy unveiled the winners of its 2018 Photo
Contest. Selected from more than 50,000 entries, a photo of two wild
horses, “Stallions Playing” in Camargue, France taken by Camille
Briottet of Lyon, France won the Grand Prize. Second place, “The End is
Near,” featured a photo of a broken piece of the Vatnajokull Glacier at
Jokulsarlon Bay in Iceland by Andre Mercier of Los Angeles, CA. And,
third place went to Terra Fondriest of St. Joe, Arkansas for a photo
titled “Frog Hug,” of a young girl holding a bullfrog.
“The quality of entries this year is stunning. It was very difficult to
select the winner,” said Bill Marr, director of photography for The
Nature Conservancy and one of the contest’s judges. “TNC’s Photo Contest
is a wonderful intersection for those who love nature and those who love
photography. We have wonderful entries from all over the world, from
beautiful Western landscapes to squirrels in a backyard in Austria.
Photography is a common language for all.”
This year’s photo contest received a record number of entries: 57,489
from 135 countries. Winners received prizes including gift cards and
packages from Backcountry, Patagonia, Tom’s of Maine, Lokai, and the
grand prize winner received a digital camera package.
Additional awards in the following categories were given to:
People and Nature
Tanner Latham,
Bozeman, Montana
Harry Randell, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
George
Bufan, Timisoara, Romania
Landscape
Hernando Alonso Rivera
Cervantes, Villa de Alvarez, Mexico
Aline Fortuna, Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil
Paul Zizka, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Water
Jeremy Stevens, Fallsington,
Pennsylvania
Jorge André Diehl, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Aristo
Risi, Shelharbour, Australia
Wildlife
Roberto Moccini Formiga, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
Megan Lorenz, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
Florian
Ledoux, Brasles, France
Cities and Nature
Kwok Kui Andus Tse,
Hong Kong, China
Yonca Ables, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Jesse
Yang, Fort Lee, New Jersey
Judges’ Special Recognition
Duncan
McNaught, Castle Douglas, United Kingdom
Elyse Butler, Honolulu,
Hawaii
Ruben Dario Mejia, Barranquilla, Colombia
To view the winning photos please visit nature.org/photocontest
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Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our
world’s toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive
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