Civic center to host award-winning Audubon nature photographs

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The City of Sequim City Arts Advisory Commission is partnering with the Dungeness River Audubon Center to host the 2017 Audubon Society’s best avian photography in April.

Photographs will be on exhibit at the Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St., April 6–30. Civic Center hours are from 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Selected from more than 5,500 entries, the winning photos were published in the Summer 2017 issue of Audubon Magazine and show bird life at its most vivid, vulnerable, formidable, and elegant. Photographers from 49 states and eight Canadian provinces submitted images in three categories: professional, amateur and youth. A panel of five judges graded them based on technical quality, originality and artistic merit.

The exhibit opening is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. on April 6 as part of the First Friday Art Walk.

Heather Roskelley is the 2017 Amateur Winner with a varied thrush taken at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle. Bonnie Block is the 2016 Grand Prize Winner with a bald eagle and great blue heron taken in Seabeck, near the Hood Canal. Meet the photographers and see a presentation from 6–6:15 p.m. Enjoy light refreshments before and after the presentation.

The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon’s state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action.

Audubon is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at www.audubon.org and @audubonsociety. Preview the award winners at www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2017/the-2017-audubon-photography-awards-winners.

For more information, call the Dungeness River Audubon Center at 360-681- 4076.