What a Picture’s Really Worth

2009 National Wildlife Winner by Rob Palmer

Dear Fundraising Friend:

I feel the big prize in a photo contest isn’t the money. Sure getting a big check is always great. (After all, it helps pay for all the fancy equipment.) But the promise of publication. That should be all the motivation to start sending in photos.

National Wildlife’s Photo Contest offers a top prize of $5,000. More important is that that the winners are published in National Wildlife magazine. Who knows. Someone may see those photos and feel like a million. Either way, we learn more about the natural world.

For instance, from these three fantastic photos, I learned heaps!

• Starlings need rear-view mirrors.
• Pumpkins should beware masked barn owls.
• Squirrels really cannot read.

2009 National Wildlife Entry by Patricia Kline

I feel this win-win situation is smashingly brilliant!

National Wildlife Federation (@NWF) is America’s largest conservation organisation that strives to protect wildlife for our children’s future.

Through this contest their supporters are a part of National Wildlife’s mission in a meaningful and authentic way.

And some years, even amateurs win. Talk about being in the right place at the right time.

So may be this year is your year. But hurry you only have til 6 July to enter your winning photo.

Good on ya, National Wildlife Federation!

Excelsior!

2009 Wildlife National Entry by Marcia Olinger