Rehabilitated Eagle Released Back to the Wild
A rehabilitated eagle takes flight. For a more complete description, see the sequence of release photos, below. © Linda Steider By Linda Steider It was an honor, a privilege, and a thrill to witness...
View Article100 % in the Moment featuring Carla Rhodes
Photo by Carla Rhodes “There’s never been a better time to be a nature photographer and the animals really need us to tell their stories,” says Carla Rhodes. Carla, who was a professional comedic...
View ArticleChris Linder Receives Trailblazer Award
© Chris Linder By Frank Gallagher Chris Linder is the recipient of NANPA’s 2023 Trailblazer Award for his exceptional work documenting science, especially in the Arctic. Linder is a well-known nature...
View ArticleMichael Frye to Receive NANPA’s Fine Art in Nature Photography Award
“Twins” – sun breaking through fog in a redwood forest, northern California, © Michael Frye By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Blog Coordinator Michael Frye is a professional photographer who specializes in...
View ArticleA Remarkable Success Story!
Piping Plover Skittering © Budd Titlow This Birding Life By Budd Titlow Trudging through wind-blown sand, I headed toward what I hoped was the last umbrella on the beach. I hadn’t quite made it when I...
View ArticleLooking Forward and Back
Ethereal photo of cranes in flight taken at the 2017 NANPA Regional Event at Bosque del Apache NWR. © Beth Huning By Beth Huning, NANPA President For the past 2-1/2 years the world, and NANPA, were...
View ArticleDaniel J. Cox Wins Environmental Impact Award
By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Marketing, Communications & Blog Coordinator The North American Nature Photography Association’s (NANPA) Environmental Impact Award honors a “photographic project...
View ArticleNPD Bioblitz: The Results (and Prizes) Are In Part I
Razorbill or lesser auk © Gouri Prakash By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Marketing, Communications, and Blog Coordinator On Nature Photography Day, June 15th, hundreds of photographers joined the NANPA’s...
View ArticleNPD Bioblitz: The Results, Part II
By Frank Gallagher Back in June, photographers from all over took part in Nature Photography Day, and hundreds also took part in NANPA’s iNaturalist Nature Photography Day bioblitz, an eleven-day...
View ArticleThere Are Stories to Be Told featuring Colleen Miniuk
Fiery sunset over the gypsum ledges near East Gypsum Bay in the Virgin Basin in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on the Arizona-Nevada border. © Colleen Miniuk Colleen Miniuk didn’t follow a...
View ArticleCelebrating Your Public Lands
Wildlife viewing, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California © Beth Huning By Beth Huning, NANPA President “This land is your land…..”. Such is the first line of the famous Woody Guthrie song....
View ArticlePhotographs to Engage Public in Renegotiation of Columbia River Treaty
NANPA Foundation supports efforts with Philip Hyde Conservation Grant The sun drops behind the Rattlesnake hills and casts the last light of the day on the White Bluffs and Hanford Reach of the...
View ArticleGreene and Hyde Grant Applications Accepted through October
Great blue heron on the Anacostia River, Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens National Park, Washington, DC. Photo by previous Philip Hyde Conservation Grant recipient Krista Schlyer. By Frank Gallagher, NANPA...
View ArticleA Tern for the Better
Screenshot of the web page for the Tern Raft project. (10/10/2022) By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Marketing, Communications & Blog Coordinator It’s no secret that many shore-nesting birds’ numbers are...
View ArticleConservation Photography for an Earth in Peril
Screenshot of The Guardian article on the Living Planet Report (10/13/22) By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Marketing, Communications & Blog Coordinator Over the last fifty years, wildlife populations...
View ArticleCompetitions Promote Conservation
Screenshot of 2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year gallery. (10/20/22) By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Marketing, Communications & Blog Coordinator And the winner is … One of the best sources of...
View ArticlePreparing for a Photo Trip featuring Dawn Wilson
This spur-of-the-moment photo of elk in Lake Estes was the result of a call I received from a friend about elk heading to the lake. The elk only stayed in the water about 30 minutes and I would have...
View ArticleNature Sparks Civility in iNaturalist
Screenshot of New York Times article By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Marketing, Communications & Blog Coordinator Who would have thought that a smart phone app would be held up as a model of...
View ArticleWILD & EXPOSED: The Nature Photographer Podcast, featuring Beth Huning
Golden Canyon from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park. © Beth Huning Join NANPA President Beth Huning and Past President Dawn Wilson, along with the Wild and Exposed crew of Jason Loftus and...
View ArticleBig Win for Photographer in Copyright Case
By Frank Gallagher, NANPA Marketing, Communications & Blog Coordinator Over the past few years, we’ve followed a lot of copyright cases in the courts. Some decisions have favored us in the...
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