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Portraits of animals or birds can be compelling, but it’s more challenging, and rewarding, to try to capture behaviour: wildlife interacting with each other or with their environment. 

Water and Land based Habitat (to illustrate the type of geography that forms the basis for a healthy ecosystem for both wildlife and humans).

Celebrating people in nature who recreate responsibly (with respect to habitat and wildlife).

Restoring nature - individual or community-led (Wildsight/ Invermere, Rod & Gun Club/ Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners, etc) conservation initiatives.

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This category is aimed at developing the camera and observational skills of youthful photographers, and is wide open in terms of subject content…except that it should fall within the “Inspired by Nature” theme