Winners

The goal of the photo was to show that animals like snails even if the task is hard they persevere. I think I captured this essence well by getting close up to the tree and the snail. The emotional connection was that I used to play with snails with my grandma when I was young. I think it is an appealing photo because I blurred the background so that you focus on the tree and the snail. The tree and the snail look very beautiful. The biome is Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome and the ecozone is Mixedwood Plains Ecozone. I think I could have focused more on the snail and made the blurred background less harsh. Snails are very important to the environment because they provide food to lots of animals.

This amazing picture of a Celosia argentea spicata was taken on October 16th at 10:47 am. This photo is called Hübsches Rosa which is German for pretty pink. This photo was taken to say that anything can be beautiful if you look at it properly. I love this picture because the color is so bright and vibrant. The amazing lighting is so cool and the way that there are small water droplets on the beautiful Celosia argentea spicata. This photo was taken at the St.Jerome School Garden on the unseated Algonquin territory.I think that one thing that can be improved is for more things to be clear but other than that I love this picture.

My aim was to show the flower in detail and the blurred river in the background. I think I succeeded. I like to show the texture of the flower. When you look at the photo, you immediately notice the main flower. But on closer inspection, you notice the other flowers and the river. The sun shines on the petals and the stem is in black. It’s a peaceful photo. The photo was taken at the water’s edge in Taylor Creek, a small forest in a big city.

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The goal of the photo was to show that animals like snails even if the task is hard they persevere. I think I captured this essence well by getting close up to the tree and the snail. The emotional connection was that I used to play with snails with my grandma when I was young. I think it is an appealing photo because I blurred the background so that you focus on the tree and the snail. The tree and the snail look very beautiful. The biome is Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome and the ecozone is Mixedwood Plains Ecozone. I think I could have focused more on the snail and made the blurred background less harsh. Snails are very important to the environment because they provide food to lots of animals.

This photo was taken on a sunny day which was around 18°C. I used my iphone Xr to take this photo, for my camera setting I used the auto setting. I took this photo at St.Jerome school Ottawa ontario. It is on the traditional land of the Anishinaabe Algonquin territory. My goal of this photo was to show that change is beautiful and to show how gorgeous and strong this tree looks. My emotional connection with this photo was to show that change can be hard but it can also be beautiful and nothing ever lasts forever. I don’t think that this photo could be improved because it’s unfiltered and it has natural beauty.

The goal of my photo was to get a stunning shot of a bee with it on a flower. The feeling that I got from the photo was a calm but cool feeling. The artistic elements I got from this piece was movement I also felt like there was organic shapes and cool coloured with ome light and dark values. The scientific aspect in this piece is in the mixed wood plains ecozone. What I would try to do better next time is try to get the bee more in the shot but otherwise it’s a fantastic picture.

Every spring and fall, over three hundred species of birds migrate thousands of kilometers north to nest in the summer months. This Yellow Warbler, one of many colorful migrating songbirds, is foraging around up in the treetops searching for food. This shot perfectly represents the environment and behavior of the Yellow Warbler with the blooming trees of a Carolinian Forest in the Mixed Wood Plains ecozone with a small insect being held in its beak. Every migration allows a chance for me to reconnect with nature and places me into a peaceful, stress free environment where I can escape from everyday life. This photo has an asymmetrical balance and a mostly analogous color scheme. By having mostly greens and yellows, this photo is easy on the eyes and the bird’s horizontal lines stand out in an otherwise vertical plane. The content of this photo is shifted to the left with the head of the bird in the center frame following the rule of thirds to make this photo more interesting. If I were to retake this photo, I would do it under warmer lighting with clear skies to change the color template.

The photograph that I’ve captured serves as a powerful symbol of the intricate relationship between human creations and the natural world. It narrates the intriguing tale of a tree’s life cycle which goes on a journey from being an integral part of a peaceful forest to being masterfully transformed into a piece of functional furniture by human craftsmanship, and eventually, being reintroduced into its original environment. This cycle, from raw, untamed material to a refined, human-made product, and then back to the heart of nature, offers a compelling highlight of the circle of life and its rhythm. The chairs in the scene, sitting unoccupied, show a profound sense of solitude. They seem to be engaged with their environment and almost blend in their surroundings. Their emptiness makes the viewer ponder upon the untold stories of the chairs and the surrounding trees. However, this image is far more than a mere moment frozen in time. It serves as a commentary on the remarkable interconnectedness of human innovation and nature’s unyielding resilience. It invites viewers to pause and reflect upon the cycle of life, transformation, and the often overlooked, yet deeply significant, aspects of our shared existence.

My photo, titled Looking Back features a deer located in my local conservation area Lemoine Point. I have been walking there since I was very little and used to see so much wildlife, but over the years I have seen less which made me realize how important places like Lemoine Point are in preserving wildlife habitat. When I had planned to take this walk, I was thinking how amazing it would be to get a picture of a deer or even to see one. To my surprise, about an hour into the walk, I was able to see three of them and took hundreds of photos. When looking at this photo you see the beautiful contrast of the cool coloured background and foreground with the warm color of the deer which makes the subject pop out and draws your eyes to the deer. When I took this photo, there was an unexpected snowfall that covered the whole trail in slippery snow. The only thing I would change about this photo is the lighting. If it was a sunny day, the deer would have stood out more.