Marvelous Winning Nature Photos Of NANPA’s 2024 Showcase
Birds: Best In Category – Anna’s hummingbird by Tim W. Oliver
The NANPA Showcase is a prestigious photo contest that celebrates the best nature photography of the year. The 2024 Showcase features 30 amazing photos in six different categories, each with a winner and three runners-up. These photos capture the beauty and diversity of nature, from birds and mammals to landscapes and conservation.
Birds: First Runner-Up – Scarlet Macaw by William Halladay
Birds: Judges’ Choice – I’iwi perching upside down by Owen Deutsch
Birds: Judges’ Choice – Sky Surfing by John Ehrenfeld
Mammals: Best In Category – Protection of the Herd by Kevin Dooley
Mammals: First Runner-Up – Looking for the off Switch! by Jennifer Smith
Mammals: Judges’ Choice – Members of the Wapiti Lake pack by Carol Grenier
Mammals: Judges’ Choice – A mule deer doe and her fawn are drinking at desert waterhole at sunset by Bruce Taubert
Scapes: Best In Category – Lavender Dreamscape by Chris Bartell
Scapes: First Runner-Up – A flock of Sandhill by Carl Johnson
Scapes: Judges’ Choice – Near Hanksville, Utah by Joyce Harman
Scapes: Judges’ Choice – Columbia River Gorge, Oregon by Margaret Larkin
Altered Reality: Best In Category – Moon during pandemic days by Stephanie Becker
Altered Reality: First Runner-Up – Dying flower by Joyce Harman
Altered Reality: Judges’ Choice – Checking out the Nest by Marty Purdy
Altered Reality: Judges’ Choice – Let it snow by Andy Wolcott
Conservation: Best In Category – In The Middle of it All by Heather Valey
Conservation: First Runner-Up – A pile of a dozen dead coyotes by Ryan Wagner
Conservation: Judges’ Choice – Corals Last Hope by Dan Mele
Conservation: Judges’ Choice – Yellowstone National Park by Wayne Wolfersberger
Macro, Micro, & All Other Wildlife: Best In Category – Ecuador by Thomas Myers
Macro, Micro, & All Other Wildlife: First Runner-Up – Phil Foster Park by Christopher Higgs
Macro, Micro, & All Other Wildlife: Judges’ Choice – Within a few feet of the trail by Kathy Raffel
Macro, Micro, & All Other Wildlife: Judges’ Choice – Old Blue Eyes by Christopher Higgs
Top 100: Comet Neowise Through Trees by Adam Batcher
Top 100: Cameron Azad
Top 100: Snowy Egret the Bayou by Cheryl Meadow
Top 100: Long jump by Donna Feledichuk
Top 100: Alaska Brown Bear With Feeding Cubs by John Ehrenfeld
Top 100: A mother’s love by Thomas Nicholson
