2018 Nature & Wildlife Photography Contest

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

Image Judging Criteria

Technical: • Exposure

• Under or over? • Compliment or interfere with image’s impact?

• Appropriately sharp?

Composition: • Effective use of “classic” rules ie. leading lines, framing, level

horizons, etc.? • Placement of main subject? • Depth of field? • Distractions?

Image Judging Criteria

Other considerations • Tell a story or convey a message? • Illustrate animal behavior or relationship with habitat

vs. “static” portrait (if wildlife image)? • Creative treatment of a common subject? • Original? • Impact: eg. visceral or emotional response? • Dynamic?

Third Place Martin Culpepper

Youth Category

Second Place John Owens

Youth Category

Youth Category

First Place Tie

Youth Category

First Place Rory O’Connor

Youth Category

First Place Martin Culpepper

Plum Island Nature & Wildlife

Third Place Alan B. Ward

Plum Island Nature & Wildlife

Second Place Russell Seidel

Plum Island Nature & Wildlife

First Place Robert Bissett

Connecting People with Nature

Third Place Mark Helton

Connecting People with Nature

Second Place Ben Achtenberg

Connecting People with Nature

First Place Karen Cameron

New England Wildlife

Third Place Wayne Wetherbee

New England Wildlife

Second Place Tom Spine

New England Wildlife

First Place Ken Jordan

New England Nature

Honorable Mention Edward Stapel

New England Nature

Third Place Irene Mueller

New England Nature

Second Place Robert Bissett

New England Nature

First Place Will Putnam

Best in Show

Ken Jordan

Thank you!