Each year Nature’s Best Photography Magazine sponsors the Windland Smith Rice International Awards, one of the biggest and most highly acclaimed international nature photography competitions. Each year they receive tens of thousands of entries. In 2008 I was very humbled to be chosen as a category winner for my image Lunar Eclipse Over Mt. Shasta. As a category winner, that image was displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for six months. This year I was surprised again to have two of my images receive Highly Honored awards in the competition.
Earth Bound Suns was honored in the Plant Life category,
and Shadow Lands was honored in the Weather category.
In addition to the excitement of being included in the Nature’s Best Awards again, it was also an honor to be represented along with other northwest photographers who I know and admire, including Kevin McNeal, Jon Cornforth and Dennis Frates.
