Natural Environment Blog

If you entered the previous photo competition from The Nature Conservancy you’ll probably be interested in the next challenge. 

The next/(current) challenge is: Oceans & Seas

If you don’t know what this photo competition is about, here’s how The Nature Conservancy explains it:

Do you have a favorite photo of the natural world? We’d love to see it. Every quarter we’ll provide a topic to inspire you. If you’re up for the challenge, gear up and head out to capture the perfect photograph — or simply search your archives for a suitable submission.

Each quarter, the editors’ top picks will be published in the magazine and featured in an online slideshow at nature.org/magazine.

The deadline for the current challenge is 11 December. All you need to do is upload your photo/s to The Nature Conservancy’s Flickr page.

To learn more, check out The Nature Conservancy’s photo competition page or go straight to their Flickr page.

If you’re interested in seeing some beautiful photos of nature, check out the winning photos from the Rainforest Alliance’s Picture Sustainability Photo Contest.

The purpose of the photo contest was to raise awareness about conservation issues while allowing the Rainforest Alliance to expand its collection of photos for use in its publications and on its web site.

Winners were chosen from the following categories:

• Wildlife on farms, forests or other natural habitats
• Landscapes (forests, waterways, flowers and plants, beaches, wetlands)
• Eco-tourism in Latin America (bird watching, hiking, surfing, scuba diving, kayaking and other nature-based activities)
• Macro (a technique of close-up photography — here, applied to insects, flowers and plants, leafy vegetation, birds, reptiles and amphibians, mammals, textures)
• Conservation in action (people working to protect natural resources, including water, flora and fauna)

You can check out the photos here.