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Earth Day Photo Contest 2025

Date(s): Photo Submittal Due on Earth Day, April 22, 2025

Time(s): Midnight

Location: Cache Creek Nature Preserve (see map)

Sponsored by: Cache Creek Conservancy

Cost: Free

2024 Professional Category Winner: The Wood Ducks by Peri Hoke featuring two male and female Wood Duck couples on a wooden perch

Capture the wild and natural beauty of Cache Creek and the Cache Creek Nature Preserve in time for Earth Day by participating in our amateur photo contest featuring the Nature Preserve. Throughout the Winter and into the Spring, the Nature Preserve offers countless opportunities to practice photography and capture inspiring photos.

Contest Rules

The contest period has begun and concludes at midnight on Earth Day, April 22, 2025. Photographs can be of natural settings and wildlife or include people and families enjoying what the Cache Creek Nature Preserve has to offer.

Youth Category Winner: A Scout Looks for the Small Things by Ben Lillge featuring a small green sprout growing out of wood chips

Limit of one photograph per participant in one of three contest categories.

  • Adults, ages 18 and older
  • Youth, ages 17 and under
  • Professionals

All images must have been taken by the photographer at the Nature Preserve–during the contest period–and not edited or modified.

The contest is for digital photos only, up to 50 MB in size.

All participants must complete the Entry Form below giving permission for the Conservancy to use their photograph (whether they are the winner or not) in future materials.

Contest Judging

A selection committee comprised of the Conservancy Board members and one volunteer will judge the photos and a winner from each category will be selected. If there is a tie, an additional person will be brought in to judge and make the final decision.

Winner selection period is from April 23 – May 10, 2025. Winners will be announced sometime in May on the website, in the newsletter and by personal contact of the winners.

2024 Adult Category Winner: Tree Swallow Protecting Nest by Kelli O'Neill featuring two Tree Swallows in flight

Contest Prizes

Vulcan Materials Company has donated a $100 VISA Gift Card for each category’s first prize winner.

Winners in each category will have their work displayed on the Cache Creek Conservancy website as well as used on our Facebook Page. Photographs may also be used in print and marketing materials for the Conservancy with the photographers receiving prominent credit.

It’s also possible that selected photographs will be printed and used during a future art show, possibly as part of Woodland’s First Friday Art Walk.

You should see a form in the green box below. If you don’t please feel free to Contact Us directly.

2024 Earth Day Photo Contest Entries

Heron on a tree limb tucked into itself against a gray skyCloseup of a dark bird with red eye among bare branchesReddish, brown bird box on the edge of a wetland water way with a pair of geese and their goslings in the waterOld, wood bird box on a pole overlooking green shrubs, and a wood pile with a meadow, clump of trees, low mountains and blue sky with white cloudsCloseup of a larger blue-breasted bird in flight blocking a smaller brown bird flying backwardRainbow reaching up from a meadow with two Live Oaks and a fence in the foregroundLive Oak with low sun behind it casting dramatic light and shadowsCloseup of hummingbird hovering and sipping from pink and fuchsia flowersTwo shiny blue Tree Swallows atop a bright, white bird boxDistinctive red berries and beige stalks of seeds against a blue sky with white cloudsLittle brown bird on bare tree limbs against a blurry background of ducks on waterWhite bird with dark blue trim against a blurry backgroundYellow gray bird with a curved beak opened to sing in a the top of a Redbud tree against a blue skyOverlooking wetlands ponds against an orange skyFour Wood Ducks on a tall wood post against a blue skyPurple flowers on a stalk next to rocky sided creekCloseup of an orange California Poppy flower against a sun-mottled green grassy backgroundView along a metal and wood bridge from dirt path in the foreground to green meadow with shrubs and treesPath road through a woodland forest against a bright, blue sky with white cloudsCloseup of pink and fuchsia flower buds on a horizontal limb against a blurry brown and green backgroundSmall green-leaved plant nestled in a pile of logs and rocksLandscape overlooking a wetlands pond against low mountains and blue skyBrown and gray lizard on the planks of a bridge next to the wood and wire mesh railing

Posted on February 13th, 2025 by Cache Creek Conservancy

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