2011 Nature's Best Photography Awards

A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY FROM THE WILD TO THE WALLS OF THE SMITHSONIAN

Part adventurer, part artist, and part engineer, nature photographers travel the globe to document the beauty and mystery of its farthest reaches. The images they bring home help to broaden our awareness and appreciation of the natural world.

The Windland Smith Rice International Awards exhibition was created to recognize this public dedication to nature through the art of photography. Today, advances in digital image capture and printing technologies have revolutionalized the art and science of photography, giving more creative control to the photographer and allowing them to use higher quality, faster, and more widely accessible ways of sharing their work with the public.

This photographic journey from the wild to the walls of the Smithsonian begins the instant the camera shutter is pressed. As it travels from the field to the lifelike prints of this exhibition, the diversity of the natural world is revealed, celebrated, and now a part of history.