Contest 2004

...a little fun and friendly competition among friends...

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Winners of Best Butterfly Picture

1st Place with 12 votes:

From Kaufmann: Monarch on a Butterfly Weed in my Garden

2nd Place with 8 votes:

From Barbee: The Common Buckeye Butterfly. I took this shot with a Nikon Coolpics 4300 camera. I thought this was a plain boring butterfly until I got the picture onto the computer and saw the beautiful markings.

3rd Place with 7 votes:

From melvatoo: I was taking pictures of the roses, and sweating, a lot! This small butterfly landed on me, and would not go away...pretty sure I was a living puddle...

Winners of Best Bee Picture

1st Place with 10 votes:

From Songbird839: This bright yellow poppy suits this bee to a tee!

2nd Place with 9 votes:

From melody: Honeybee at Oregano blooms

3rd Place with 8 votes:

From philomel: Bee in Heaven (ly Blue Morning Glory)

Winners of Best Bird picture

1st Place with 18 votes:

From JoanMN: Baby downy being fed by Mom.

2nd Place with 14 votes:

From jcangemi: This spring my 4 year-old grandson Hunter and I were at the neighborhood park and I noticed a young bird following me in the grass and willingly sitting on our laps and shoulders. It was a fantastic experience for him, holding it and feeding finely crushed peanuts we had brought for the squirrels to it. And of course G'ma had the best time getting many unbelievable shots of them.....this one my favorite.