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Last update:

 07/02/2022 12:25 PM -0400

All text and photography Copyright © Milton Heiberg Studios unless otherwise noted

Presenting the Winners of

Orange Audubon Society's 2014

Kit & Sidney Chertok Nature Photography Contest

 

Co-sponsored by Colonial Photo & Hobby    


All photographs are © copyrighted by the individual photographers and may not be duplicated.

Orange Audubon Society's 2014 (25th Annual)

Chertok Nature Photography Contest

 

Featured an OPEN competition with two categories: Advanced and Amateur

And a Youth competition.

Theme: Florida's Native Nature

All winning images are presented below.

Category: Advanced

 

First Place: Pretty Boy – Painted Bunting

Locale where photographed: Oviedo

Photographer: Jack Rogers, Oviedo

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Second Place: Burrowing Owlet Yawn

Locale where photographed: Lake County

Photographer: Jess Yarnell, Winter Garden

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Third Place: Nature’s Jewelry – Zebra Heliconian Butterfly Egg on Corky Stem Passion Vine

Locale where photographed: Boca Raton

Photographer: Joaquin (Jake) Paredes, Boca Raton

Member Tropical Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Reaching for the Heavens – Great Blue Heron

Locale where photographed: Viera Wetlands

Photographer: Michael Libbe, Casselberry

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Sandhill Crane Colts

Locale where photographed: Orlando

Photographer: Jess Yarnell, Winter Garden

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Grace – Reddish Egret

Locale where photographed: Ft. De Soto

Photographer: Robert Kimbrell, Ft. Myers

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Snuggle Time – Sandhill Cranes 

Locale where photographed: DeBary

Photographer: Debra Schmidt, Deltona

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Bad Day – Great Egret and Frog

Locale where photographed: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Photographer: Chris Heisey, Mechanicsburg, PA


 

Honorable Mention: Peek-A-Boo – Barred Owlet 

Locale where photographed: Micco

Photographer: Jim Urbach, Sanford

Member Seminole Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Green Lynx Spider Feeding

Locale where photographed: Split Oak Forest Wildlife and Environmental Area

Photographer: George Carson, Orlando


 

Honorable Mention: Look Up Here – Burrowing Owl Young 

Locale where photographed: Brian Piccolo Park, Cooper City

Photographer: Debbie Tubridy, Hollywood

Member Audubon Society of the Everglades

 


 

 

 

CATEGORY: NOVICE

 

First Place: Long-legged Fly – Condylostylus

Locale where photographed: Clermont

Photographer: Steven Long, Clermont

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Second Place: Mating Cone Ants – Dorymyrmex

Locale where photographed: Clermont

Photographer: Steven Long, Clermont

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Third Place: Stealth – American Bittern

Locale where photographed: Orlando Wetlands, Christmas

Photographer: Kimberly Marshall, Orlando

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Duckweed and Cypress

Locale where photographed: Urban Wetlands

Photographer: Tammi S. Jones, Apopka


 

Honorable Mention: Alligator Eye

Locale where photographed: Lake Cypress

Photographer: Mark A. Kosinsky, Orlando

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Luna Moth Among the Leaves

Locale where photographed: Wekiva Springs River

Photographer: Michele Flacco, Ocoee


 

Honorable Mention: See Mom, I Can Fly! – Great Egrets

Locale where photographed: St. John’s River

Photographer: Gini Henry, Christmas

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Exploring Mangrove Tree Crabs

Locale where photographed: Sanibel Island

Photographer: Bonnie Vanzant, Mount Dora


 

Honorable Mention: Rambur’s Forktail Damselfly – Ischnura ramburii

Locale where photographed: Clermont

Photographer: Steven Long, Clermont

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

 

 CATEGORY: YOUTH

 

First Place: Slither and Scales – Yellow Rat Snake

Locale where photographed: Okeechobee

Photographer: Matthew Guernier, Windermere

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Second Place: Sandhill Crane

Locale where photographed: Circle B Bar Reserve

Photographer: Mason Theurer, Kissimmee

Member Kissimmee Valley Audubon Society


 

Third Place: Eastern Gray Squirrel

Locale where photographed: Loch Haven Park, Orlando

Photographer: Alyssa Degler, Maitland

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Green Heron

Locale where photographed: Wakodahatchee Wetlands

Photographer: Mason Theurer, Kissimmee

Member Kissimmee Valley Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Alligator Carcass

Locale where photographed: Orlando Wetlands, Christmas

Photographer: Reese Rubio, Maitland

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Lunch – Great Blue Heron

Locale where photographed: Viera Wetlands

Photographer: Jordan Clark, Orlando

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: Sunset

Locale where photographed: Huguenot Memorial Park

Photographer: Mason Theurer, Kissimmee

Member Kissimmee Valley Audubon Society


 

Honorable Mention: The Colorful Beak – Cattle Egret

Locale where photographed: Gatorland

Photographer: Jordan Clark, Orlando

Member Orange Audubon Society


 

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 Click here to see the 2013 winners

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Click here to see the 2011 winners

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Click here to see the 2007 winners

Click here to see the 2006 winners

 

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