MOST BEAUTIFUL WINNERS: 2016 AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
2016 AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Check out the 2016 Audubon Photography Awards most beautiful winners, finalists and BN Team faves.
Image: by Peter Cavanaugh. “Red-legged Cormorants.”
More than 1,700 photographers, from over 50 US states and 6 Canadian provinces submitted nearly 7,000 entries.
Audubon’s mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
Image: by Sunil Gopalan. Ruffs.
Image: by Judylynn Malloch. “Roseate Spoonbills.”
Image: by Ken Archer. “Greater Sage Grouse.”
Image: by Dick Dickinson. “Osprey.”
Image: by William Kleinfelder. “Eastern Screech-Owl.”
Image: by Barbara Driscoll. “Green Violetear at the Savegre Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica.”
Image: by Sarah Blodgett “Anna's Hummingbird.”
Image: by Jerry Black. “Crested Caracara and Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.”
Image: by Deborah O'Sullivan. “American Goldfinch.”
Image: by Gail Bisson. Purple Finch.
Image: by Thomas Chadwick. Osprey.
Image: by Blake Shaw “Turkey Vultures, near San Felipe. Baja California, Mexico.”
Read more about Beautiful Tops 2016 in iPhone Photography Award Winners: 2016, Most Beautiful Winner: 2016 Nikon Small World Competition, 10 Beautifully Scrumptious Winner: 2016 Saveur Blogger Awards, 10 Beautiful Winners: 2016 Siena International Photo Awards and Most Beautiful Winners: 2016 Sony World Photography Awards.
And check out more beautiful things happening now in BN Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact Daily Fix posts.
Image: by Artur Stankiewicz. “Black-winged Stilt catching an insect on a salt pan.” Lesbos, Greece.
Want more stories like this? Sign up for our weekly BN Newsletter, Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr. Join our BeautifulNow Community and connect with the most beautiful things happening in the world right now!
Do you have amazing photos? Enter them in this week’s BN Photo Competition. We run new creative competitions every week! Now, it’s even easier to enter with the new BeautifulNow App!
Plus check out the rest of our App’s beautiful features. It’s free to download here.
Image: by Peter Brannon. “Snowy Egret.”
IMAGE CREDITS:
All images are courtesy of Audubon Photography Awards.
