2022 Photo Contest – It’s Alive Category Entries


Title: Lightning Bug Backyard
Photographer: Anna Miller
Location: St. Louis City backyard
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Bolete Beauty
Photographer: Bonnie Benson
Location: Andersen Preserve DCA, Cross Plains, Wisconsin
Chapter: Madison

Title: Chicken of the Woods
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Valley View Glades Natural Area, DeSoto, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Witches Butter
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Gray Summit, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Peekaboo
Photographer: Judith Bechtum
Location: Webster, MN
Chapter: Prairie Edge

Title: Meditation in Green
Photographer: Diana Kuklinski
Location: My front prairie landscape (Bemidji, MN)
Chapter: Arrowhead

Title: Monarch caterpillar on Blunt leaf milkweed
Photographer: Kathy Bildner
Location: Sand Prairie Conservation area SE Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Any milkweed will do
Photographer: Kathy Bildner
Location: Sand Prairie Conservation area SE Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Frog Camo
Photographer: Kristin Bailey Wilson
Location: Westmoreland, TN
Chapter: Middle Tennessee

Title: Hiding
Photographer: Kim Lowman Vollmer
Location: My yard
Chapter: Rock River Valley

Title: Forest Find
Photographer: Nan Pokerwinski
Location: Croton Township, Michigan
Chapter: River City-Grand Rapids Area

Title: Mushroom and Moss
Photographer: Nan Pokerwinski
Location: Croton Township, Michigan
Chapter: River City-Grand Rapids Area

Title: Kitydid in Purple Poppy Mallow
Photographer: Diana Linsley
Location: My Backyard
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Upright Coral Fungus
Photographer: Katherine Moore
Location: Our land in Presque Isle, WI
Chapter: Madison

Title: Guardians of the Green Galaxy
Photographer: Claire Westenhaver-Loretz
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
Chapter: Greater DuPage

Title: Boudoir for a Beast
Photographer: Bette Kauffman
Location: Lake Markin, near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana
Chapter: Western Gulf Plain

Title: Fattening up!
Photographer: Ruth Oldenburg
Location: Hudsonville Nature Center, Hudsonville, MI
Chapter: River City-Grand Rapids Area

Title: Keeping an eye on you.
Photographer: Judy Nelson
Location: Centreville Michigan
Chapter: Kalamazoo Area

Title: Monarch egg on common milkweed
Photographer: Ward Ransdell
Location: Floracliff Nature Sanctuary Lexington, KY
Chapter: Lexington

Title: Shroom Glory
Photographer: Janet Thew
Location: Aug 26
Chapter: Western North Carolina

Title: Butterfly
Photographer: Francis Kalinski
Location: Dexter Michigan
Chapter: Oak Openings Region

Title: Monarch Caterpillar
Photographer: Shanda Behrens
Location: Ashville, Ohio
Chapter: Columbus

Title: Bluebird with pine needles
Photographer: Shanda Behrens
Location: Ashville, Ohio
Chapter: Columbus

Title: Bump on a Log
Photographer: Abigail Rexer
Location: Beaman Park, Nashville, TN
Chapter: Middle Tennessee

Title: Shrooms
Photographer: Bill Wickers
Location: Coral Woods Conservation Area, McHenry Cnty
Chapter: Greater Kane County

Title: orange
Photographer: Bill Wickers
Location: Coral Woods Conservation Area, McHenry Cnty
Chapter: Greater Kane County

Title: Happy in the Spatterdock
Photographer: Janie Braud
Location: Natalbany River outside Springfield, LA
Chapter: Greater Baton Rouge

Title: Formations
Photographer: Emily Crook
Location: Booker T. Washington State Park
Chapter: Tennessee Valley

Title: Wonderland
Photographer: Emily Crook
Location: Audubon Acres (Chattanooga TN)
Chapter: Tennessee Valley

Title: Tree Frog on Anemone
Photographer: Chelsey Smith
Location: Meadowlands, MN
Chapter: Arrowhead