Nature's Best Photography
Windland Smith Rice International
Awards Exhibition Opens March 30, 2012

Our annual show of extraordinary images comes to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History at a peak time of year for visitation. The category Winners and selected Highly Honored images from the 2011 competition will be displayed as large-format prints and in an accompanying HD video in this year's Awards Exhibition. Washington DC is beautiful during the spring and summer and we hope everyone will get a chance to visit DC and see the exhibition.

The History of the International Awards

Launched in 1996 at the Washington DC National Zoo, the Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards has now become a multi-year exhibition program at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History located on the National Mall, 1000 Madison Drive, NW, Washington, DC. The program has grown to become a very popular annual exhibition where enlarged photographic prints ranging in size from 2-foot by 3-foot to 4-foot by 6-foot are on view for at least six months. The exhibitions are located in the Special Exhibit Hall on the museum's second floor next to the Gem Hall. Plan a visit to one of the most-visited museums in the world. FREE to the public!
Get all the winning photos from the exhibition including the Grand Prize, the Conservation Photographer of the Year, and winners in 15 competition categories in the 2011 Fall/Winter 2011 Collectors Edition (right).

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