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6th Annual Photo Contest: Winners Announced!

Photo Contest

Thank you for being a part of The Nature Conservancy's 6th annual digital photography competition. We’re truly inspired by the images submitted from around the world.

We collected more than 75,000 votes from Conservancy supporters, like you, to select the Grand Prize Winner — Bruce Leventhal of Stillwater, Minnesota.

Bruce's photo of red-eyed tree frogs will be featured on The Nature Conservancy's website, nature.org, in addition to the 2013 Nature Conservancy calendar cover — reaching nearly 2 million households worldwide.

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Featured Photographer

Shannon Switzer

"[If money and time were no object] I would get lost for months at a time, wandering around the world like a fly on the wall…I would tell stories with the photos I gather to anyone willing to look and listen."

Meet Shannon Switzer, 2008 Photo Contest Finalist »

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