Photography

Stunning pictures of Sarasota’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens abound in the winner’s categories of the esteemed orchid and bromeliad research and cultivation center’s summer photography contest.The Gardens received nearly 300 submissions to the 42nd Annual Virtual Juried Photographic Exhibition. The photos had to be taken within the past two years at either Selby’s main campus on the bayfront in downtown Sarasota, or at the Historic Spanish Point campus in Osprey.

A close-up of white butterfly pollinating a purple flower. Shot from below, a diver above a wreck with a huge school of fish following his travels. A burrowing owl looking straight at the camera.Those are three recent winners in the amateur divisions of several of Southwest Florida’s summertime environmental photography contests. Some offer cash prizes, other give away new camera equipment, but most clearly feel that bragging rights rule because that's what the winners receive.There are often thousands of entries even in the smaller-sized wildland and wildlife photography contests. Several of those are in full swing now and ready for nature lovers to join.

Awarded in the Mammals Behavior category and titled “Come High Water,” Mac Stone's photograph shows a mother raccoon rescuing her newborn after a storm likely flooded out her nest. Hear how Stone captured this award-winning image and learn more about his journey through wildlife photography.

Two gallery shows feature the work of photojournalist Kinfay Moroti.

We're now more than halfway through Black History Month. So, in honor of those of black heritage here in Southwest Florida, WGCU is featuring local…

A group exhibition titled, “There’s Something in the Water” is currently running in the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center’s Capital Gallery in downtown Fort…

FLORIDA SNAPSHOTS - A WLRN Original Production - Short stories that capture Florida's unique and colorful past.

This week, we pay homage to the late photographer Charlie McCullough. A retrospective exhibition of his work opened Feb. 8 at Tower Gallery on Sanibel…

World-renowned photographer Jerry Uelsmann comes to Southwest Florida for the opening of a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Bob Rauschenberg…

Internationally renowned photographer and environmental advocate Clyde Butcher has been hiking deep into the Big Cypress National Preserve, the western…