The 2016 探花精选 Photography Awards: Top 100
For the first time ever, there鈥檚 a sage-grouse.
Every year we field thousands of entries for the 探花精选 Photography Awards, and every year we have to make the terrible choice of picking just a handful of winners. Lucky for us, our readers are always hungry for more amazing bird pics. So we'd like to share a hundred of our favorites (in no particular order) in the gallery above鈥攅njoy!
Quick Stats:
Participants: More than 1,700
Images entered: Nearly 7,000
Categories: Amateur, Professional, Fine Art, Youth
Entrants from: 50 states, 6 provinces, District of Columbia
Judges
Kenn Kaufman: , 探花精选 field editor
Melissa Groo: and 2015 Grand Prize winner
Steve Freligh: Co-publisher of
Kevin Fisher: 探花精选 creative director
Sabine Meyer: 探花精选 photography director
Judging criteria: Technical quality, originality, artistic merit
See the 2016 winners here.