2021 EIC Photography Winners - Outdoor Writers Association of America

2021 EXCELLENCE IN CRAFT PHOTOGRAPHY WINNERS

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OUTDOOR FUN

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1ST PLACE PHOTO ESSAY: QUERENCIA BY JOSHUA DUPLECHIAN

2ND PLACE PHOTO ESSAY: SHOTGUNS AND SCABBARDS BY BRIAN GROSSENBACHER

3RD PLACE PHOTO ESSAY: Celebration of Rio Grande Valley Nature by Ruth Hoyt

A day-old Black-necked Stilt chick explores the ranch pond for the first time.

A Greater Roadrunner drinks from a ranch water hole and spews water from its beak.

Four Rio Grande Leopard Frogs sit quietly in holes in a log at night, waiting for an opportunity for a meal or distraction.

A spider chills on a dew-covered coreopsis flower in the early morning on the Jones Alta Vista Ranch.

A Snowy Egret provides a pleasant scene for the photographer as it preens its feathers on a little slip of mud in the ranch pond.

An Audubon’s Oriole poses for its portrait on a perch between two aloe blossom stalks.

Buff-bellied Hummingbird — A Buff-bellied Hummingbird sips nectar from a red sage wildflower.