The contest deadline is next Monday, June 27th!
Please be sure to get your entries submitted. Visit the contest’s web page for complete information.
Here is the front of the the contest’s promotional postcard featuring Tom Hausler’s beautiful “Ladder-backed Woodpecker“.
Grab your cameras, go outside, and take some photographs! Please help us spread the word about the contest and we hope to see your entries soon!
We started accepting entries on May 2nd. The entry deadline is June 27th.
The contest is now in its 12th year and is co-sponsored by the Hill Country Photography Club and the Hays County Master Naturalists.
Goals of the contest and exhibit include increasing public awareness of the importance of protecting our natural world and giving photographers at all levels of experience a chance to capture, share, and receive recognition for beautiful and inspiring images. Suggested subjects include natural scenery, wildlife, plants, and people and pets in the natural environment.
The contest is open to resident and visiting photographers of all ages. A $100 prize will be awarded for Best in Show, $75 for the best Youth Category photo, and $75 for the best Natural Waterscape photo. Up to four $50 Awards of Excellence will be presented for the next most outstanding photographs. Additional Awards of Merit will be presented at the discretion of the contest juror.
We’re very pleased to have the team of John and Kendra Abbott as our jurors. John and Kendra are professional nature photographers, educators and outdoor enthusiasts based in Austin, Texas.
Please visit the contest’s web page for complete information.
Here is the front of the the contest’s promotional postcard featuring Tom Hausler’s beautiful “Ladder-backed Woodpecker“.
Grab your cameras, go outside, and take some photographs! Please help us spread the word about the contest and we hope to see your entries soon!
The opening of the Naturescapes 2016 Photography Contest and Exhibition is almost here!
We will start accepting entries on May 2nd. The contest is now in its 12th year and is co-sponsored by the Hill Country Photography Club and the Hays County Master Naturalists.
Goals of the contest and exhibit include increasing public awareness of the importance of protecting our natural world and giving photographers at all levels of experience a chance to capture, share, and receive recognition for beautiful and inspiring images. Suggested subjects include natural scenery, wildlife, plants, and people and pets in the natural environment.
The contest is open to resident and visiting photographers of all ages. A $100 prize will be awarded for Best in Show, $75 for the best Youth Category photo, and $75 for the best Natural Waterscape photo. Up to four $50 Awards of Excellence will be presented for the next most outstanding photographs. Additional Awards of Merit will be presented at the discretion of the contest juror.
We’re very pleased to have the team of John and Kendra Abbott as our jurors. John and Kendra are professional nature photographers, educators and outdoor enthusiasts based in Austin, Texas.
Please visit the contest’s web page for complete information.
Here is the front of the the contest’s promotional postcard featuring Tom Hausler’s beautiful “Ladder-backed Woodpecker“.
Grab your cameras, go outside, and take some photographs! Please help us spread the word about the contest and we hope to see your entries soon!
Congratulations to Mike Zarella!
His photo of a baby gator sunning on its mother’s back was awarded 1st Place in the Wildlife Vertebrates Refuge category of the 2016 Migration Celebration Nature Photo Contest sponsored by Friends of Brazoria Refuges and jurored by Kathy Adams Clark and Tim Timmis.
Winifred Simon’s Marian was selected for the “old” exhibition, May 20th to June 26th, at the A Smith Gallery.
These are the 25 photographs chosen by the Texas Night Sky Festival Photography Contest Juror, Andy Heatwole, for the electronic exhibition on the day of the Festival, March 5th, 2016.
There were an estimated 2400 attendees at the Festival.
Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to the award winners of the 2016 Texas Night Sky Festival Photography Contest!
Jerry Moreno, Startrails and their reflections
Bridget Decker, Mezzaluna
Robert Cook, The Holy Spirit
Robert Cook, Perry School with Stars
Jerry Moreno, Polaris, the Original GPS
Mike Zarella, Lovelorn Screech Owl
Carolyn Whiteside, September Blood Moon
Robert Cook, Mike Zarella, and Carolyn Whiteside are HCPC members.
Several of our members had images selected for the “red” exhibition at the A Smith Gallery!
Congratulations to everyone–especially, Winifred Simon for her honorable mention. HCPC will be well represented!
Congratulations to Winifred Simon on her Best of Show for “Sinus Scan” at the Wimberley Valley Art League Juried Show, February 23rd through April 11th, 2016.
Carolyn Whiteside has one of her cowboy images selected for ImageBrief.