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Week 4 Nature Photography Contest Gallery
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Anya Brandenburg
Anya Brandenburg

Week 4 Winner

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Hana Joustra
Hana Joustra

Week 4 2nd Place

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Keewin Wilson
Keewin Wilson

Week 4 3rd Place

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Rylee Lawrence
Rylee Lawrence

Week 4 Honorable Mention

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Aiden Galloway
Aiden Galloway
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Ayden Niehaus
Ayden Niehaus
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Brayden Tyler
Brayden Tyler
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Colton Buehring
Colton Buehring
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Drake Swanson
Drake Swanson
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Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
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Emma Galloway
Emma Galloway
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Jayce Nielsen
Jayce Nielsen
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Jenny Klopatek
Jenny Klopatek
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Josephine Galloway
Josephine Galloway
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Kaylee Powers
Kaylee Powers
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Logan Pischer
Logan Pischer
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Rex Brandenburg
Rex Brandenburg
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Mr. Wilson's Porcupine
Mr. Wilson's Porcupine
Week 3 Nature Photography Contest Gallery - LANDSCAPES
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Ayden Niehaus
Ayden Niehaus

From Mr. Griffin: This is the classic northwoods shot: fisherman in the foreground and beautiful sunset in the background. Can't go wrong with this pic, and with the strategy. Always try to vary your photos, and including something in the foreground AND background is a recipe for photography success!

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Kaylee Powers
Kaylee Powers

From Mr. Griffin: What a creative picture! Kaylee titled this pic, "Half and Half," and if you don't notice it right away, check out the background in this picture. On the one side, you have the stand of red pines, the forest, and on the right side, a yard and house. Great use of juxtaposition between the forest and the neighborhood, Kaylee!

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Josephine Galloway
Josephine Galloway

From Mr. Griffin: The Galloways come through again. This mysterious picture from Joesphine has such a great use of color and the reflection of the trees on the little creek creates a nice symmetry. Beautiful pic, Josephine!

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Emma Galloway
Emma Galloway

From Mr. Griffin: I love this pic! You've got the waterfall in the background, someone's pantleg in the foreground, a teddy bear, the beautiful sun rays. So much is going on here! Let your picture tell a story, just like Emma did with this pic.

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Aiden Galloway
Aiden Galloway

From Mr. Griffin: Aiden's picture of Potato Falls is straightforward, because sometimes a picture only needs to capture a moment to suck the viewer in. I don't know about you, but I'd love to be right there where Aiden's camera is. You can almost hear the rush of the water!

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Sarah Barton
Sarah Barton

From Mr. Griffin: A good sunset picture never gets old, and this is a great one. Check out all the different colors in those clouds. Whenever I see a sunset like this, I reach for my camera, take ONE photo, and put my camera back down. Sunsets like these should be watched with the naked eye till all the color has gone.

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Anya Brandenburg
Anya Brandenburg
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Brayden Tyler
Brayden Tyler
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Colton
Colton
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Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
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Eiley Schoeneman
Eiley Schoeneman
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Hadleigh DuFrane
Hadleigh DuFrane
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Jayce Nielsen
Jayce Nielsen
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Keewin Wilson
Keewin Wilson
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Kenzie Blohm
Kenzie Blohm
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Logan Pischer
Logan Pischer
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Lola WIlson
Lola WIlson
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Rex Brandenburg
Rex Brandenburg
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Sadie Augustiniak
Sadie Augustiniak
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Savannah Barton
Savannah Barton
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Tyanna Messenger
Tyanna Messenger
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Tyler Messenger
Tyler Messenger
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Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
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Tyanna Messenger
Tyanna Messenger
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Tyanna Messenger
Tyanna Messenger
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Tyler Messenger
Tyler Messenger
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Tyler Messenger
Tyler Messenger
Week 2 Nature Photo Contest Gallery - BIRDS
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Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle

Teanna Messenger

 From Mr. Wilson: Wow. What a great shot of an Bald Eagle carrying a white sucker.  Teanna lives on Little Pike lake and if this photo came from her lake it might have been helped by a large fish kill event on the lake which brought in dozens of eagles.

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Woodpecker
Woodpecker

Hadleigh DuFrane

From Mr. Wilson: You have a downy woodpecker.  They are the smallest of the woodpecker we have in Iron county.  The largest is the Pileated which is the largest woodpecker in North America.

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Chickadee with Dylan
Chickadee with Dylan

Dylan Eith

From Mr. Wilson: Black Capped Chickadee.  There are many different kinds of chickadees from Boreal Chickadees to the Carolina Chickadee.  We have both the black capped and the Boreal here in Iron County.  But the Boreal is very rare.

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Flying Grouse
Flying Grouse

Emma Galloway

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Loons and Dog
Loons and Dog

Sadie Augustiniak

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Flying Woodpecker
Flying Woodpecker

Aiden Galloway

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Woodpecker
Woodpecker

Anya Brandenburg

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Chickadee
Chickadee

Brayden Tyler

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Loons
Loons

Tommy Hohner

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Woodpecker
Woodpecker

Jayce Nielsen

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Chicken
Chicken

Josephine Galloway

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Robin
Robin

Ben Joustra

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Chicken
Chicken

Lola Wilson

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Loon at Grandma's
Loon at Grandma's

Rex Brandenburg

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Chickadees
Chickadees

Rylee Lawrence

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Wood Duck
Wood Duck

Vic Saeger

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Eagle in Tree
Eagle in Tree

Tyler Messenger

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Robin
Robin

Hadleigh DuFrane

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Woodpecker
Woodpecker

Hadleigh DuFrane

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Swans
Swans

Hadliegh DuFrane

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Bird
Bird

Hadliegh DuFrane

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Chickadee
Chickadee

Hadliegh DuFrane

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Loon on Water
Loon on Water

Tyler Messenger

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Geese
Geese

Kaylee Powers

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Robin
Robin

Logan Pischer

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Teanna Messenger
Teanna Messenger

The Week 1 Winner.....

From Mr. Wilson: "Spiders belong to a group of animals called “arachnids”. ... Arachnids are creatures with two body segments, eight legs, no wings or antennae and are not able to chew. Many people think that spiders are insects, but they are mistaken since insects have six legs and three main body parts. Teanna’s photo of what I think is a wolf spider -- I am no entomologist (someone who
studies insects) -- did a great job capturing some of a spider’s body parts. If you zoom in, you can even see the hairs on the spider’s legs. Another similar looking spider that lives in Wisconsin is the Fishing Spider. They look very similar. Science is truly amazing and complicated. Common names of species can be sometime be very confusing, that is why we organize animals by scientific name: The “Wolf Spider's” real name is Lycosidae which means wolf in Latin.

Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith

Week 1 Second Place

From Mr. Wilson: "Worms are also not insects. ...While Dylan’s photo was also very fun and creative it also technically is not an insect. Both worms and insects are classified under the Kingdom Animalia. The animal kingdom is split into two groups: vertebrate, animals with a backbone, and invertebrate, animals without a backbone. Both worms and insects are invertebrates but unlike worms, insects have an exoskeleton. Speaking of exoskeleton’s……

Tommy Hohner
Tommy Hohner

Week 1 Third Place

From Mr. Wilson: Tommy captured a photo of an exoskeleton from a dragonfly. The dragonfly is truly a “Land and Water” creative where they first live in the water and then transform into a flying insect. Tommy’s photo is just the left-over skin. Like a snake shedding its skin or a monarch caterpillar turning into a butterfly. Dragonflies …are insects. How many legs do they have???? 6 Legs.

Brayden Tyler
Brayden Tyler

Week 1 Honorable Mention

From Mr. Wilson: I have no idea what kind of beetle that is… It’s super cool looking. I’ll look in some books to see if we can find out what it is. Beetles are super cool. In fact, there are 350,000 beetle species in the world.

While there are 250,000 described species of plants, 12,000 described species of roundworms, and only 4,000 described species of mammals, there are over 350,000 beetle species described, with many more beetles yet to be discovered!

The rest of you have house flies…I think…Still very cool looking…INSECTS

Teanna Messenger
Teanna Messenger
Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
Dylan Eith
Tommy Hohner
Tommy Hohner
Logan Pischer
Logan Pischer
Colton
Colton
Jayce
Jayce
Rylee
Rylee
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