| Week 4 Nature Photography Contest Gallery |
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Anya Brandenburg Week 4 Winner |
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Hana Joustra Week 4 2nd Place |
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Keewin Wilson Week 4 3rd Place |
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Rylee Lawrence Week 4 Honorable Mention |
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| Week 3 Nature Photography Contest Gallery - LANDSCAPES |
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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 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 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 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 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 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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| Week 2 Nature Photo Contest Gallery - BIRDS |
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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 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 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 Emma Galloway |
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Loons and Dog Sadie Augustiniak |
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Flying Woodpecker Aiden Galloway |
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Woodpecker Anya Brandenburg |
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Chicken Josephine Galloway |
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Loon at Grandma's Rex Brandenburg |
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Chickadees Rylee Lawrence |
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Eagle in Tree Tyler Messenger |
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Woodpecker Hadleigh DuFrane |
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Chickadee Hadliegh DuFrane |
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Loon on Water Tyler Messenger |
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| 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. |
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| 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…… |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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