ForestWander - Nature Photography News

Tokyo, Japan, Apr 25, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - The “Sony World Photography Awards” is the first truly global photographic awards for amateur and professional photographers across all categories, being sponsored by Sony from 2007. Supported by hundreds of the industry’s top photographers, critics, gallery owners and other industry experts, it is the first awards show of its kind, providing an unprecedented international platform in the culturally important and diverse world of photography.

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Wild West Virginia/Nature
BY: Karen M. Brown Statesman Staff Writer
Tygart Lake State Park Program Director/Naturalist Sherri Dowling is pleased to announce the results for the very first photo contest and exhibit at the Tygart Lake State Park Lodge. “We really had a good variety of photos and the exhibit was great for the very first time,” she said.
Tygart Lake Park Program Director/Naturalist Sherri Dowling holds Best of Show Dignity by Shirley Gessler.

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Is your camera at home collecting dust because you don’t know how to use it properly?  Now is the time to learn!  On April 26th at 10:00 a.m., the Henry County Pro-Am Photography Club will host a free public workshop on nature photography.  The workshop will be held at the new Richard P Gravely, Jr. Nature Preserve on Eggleston Falls Road in Ridgeway, Virginia.

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By Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce
NANTUCKET, MA - From early-April to mid-May, over three million daffodils of every color, shape and size will bloom on Nantucket Island, a world-class resort just 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. This blossoming, and the advent of spring itself, is the focal point of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Daffodil Festival, April 25-27, 2008.

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Business exec Tom Ocasek is fighting to save polar bears as climate change warms up the Arctic Circle and imperils their future on earth.

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