UMaine Student Excels in International Nature Photography Competition
Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — A UMaine graduate student has won runner-up honors in a prestigious international conservation and nature photography competition.
Dane Wojcicki was honored in the student category of the International Conservation Photography Awards 2008 competition. His photograph of a bird, a juvenile Dunlin, was taken on a recent University of Maine phytoplankton research cruise off the coast of Iceland, with a Nikon D80 camera and a 60mm macro lens. Wojcicki, of Amherst, N.H., is working toward a master of arts degree in new media, with a focus on documentary photography and videography of natural history and science.
Wojcicki’s photo was selected from more than 1,000 entries, and was one of only two student award winners this year.
The International Conservation Photography Awards (ICP Awards) competition is a premier worldwide photography event. The biennial juried photo competition will include an online exhibit, a six-week museum gallery show at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, Wash., and publication in a photography magazine.
Created in 1997 by nature photographer Art Wolfe, the International Conservation Photography Awards competition is designed as “an event for the advancement of photography as a unique medium, capable of bringing awareness and preservation to our environment through art,” according to its website (www.icpawards.com).
More info on the ICP Awards can be found at the ICP Awards website at http://www.icpawards.com.