The NatureScapes.Net website is comprised of four major components: monthly articles, active forums, member portfolios, and an online store. Our forums are the lifeblood of the website, where nature photographers from all over the world interact and discuss our mutual passion for photography.
In the image critique forums the quality of images shared is profound! With a diverse community, each photographer bringing their own vision to the forums, there is something unique and amazing to see daily. It is truly inspirational!
Each week the moderators and staff of NatureScapes.Net select one photo that particularly stands out in each of the image critique galleries. This photo becomes that gallery’s Image of the Week, and at year end, one image is selected from these to be the gallery’s Image of the Year.
It is our great honor to announce the NatureScapes.Net 2006 Images of the Year awards! Our congratulations to Linda Robbins (Birds), Jim Urbach (Wildlife), Jeff Hapeman (Landscapes), Griffin Cheng, (Flora and Macro), Camilo Margelí (Elements of Humankind), and Jim Milligan (Digital Creations) for their winning images!
To view the winning images and find out more about the photographers who made them, please visit the 2006 Images of the Year Gallery. Winners received a complimentary Lifetime Membership to NatureScapes.Net, a NatureScapes.Net logo cap, and a $550.00 shopping spree at the NatureScapes.Net online store - over $5,000 in total prizes! Membership benefits include the image upload service, discounts from participating workshops, plus a fifty-image member portfolio. Products in the store include the Wimberley line, Foxgloves gloves, Storm Jackets, Pod Pads, Kwik Camo blinds, NEOS overshoes, Gitzo tripods and parts, Hakuba products, Kinesis products, Sekonic lightmeters, and more!
Special thanks to Wimberley, Foxgloves, REP Enterprises (Kwik Camo and Pod Pads), and Vortex Media (Storm Jackets), the Image of the Year sponsors, who made the NatureScapes.Net 2006 Images of the Year photo contest possible. Every dollar of their sponsorship is paid out in the awards.
More to come! Each year the prize amount grows; NatureScapes.Net hopes to make the 2007 Images of the Year prizes even more exciting! For more information on how to participate for 2007, please visit the Images of the Year prizes and information page.
