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Navigating Photography Contests, Competitions, and Exhibitions Part I
Navigating Photography Contests, Competitions, and Exhibitions Part I
July 26, 2022

By Debbie McCulliss

Have you ever entered photography contest? For a long time I didn’t, but that changed during the COVID lockdowns. In this two-part article, I will share why I started entering my photos and 25 things I’ve learned in the process of entering photography contests, competitions, and exhibitions during the pandemic...

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Navigating Photography Contests, Competitions and Exhibitions Part II
Navigating Photography Contests, Competitions and Exhibitions Part II
July 28, 2022

By Debbie McCulliss

In part I of this article, I wrote about why I decided to enter my work in photo competitions and listed some of the better-known contests, including NANPA’s soon-to-open Showcase photo competition...

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A Huge Iceberg Threatens South Georgia Island
A Huge Iceberg Threatens South Georgia Island
January 29, 2021

Huge Iceberg Threatens South Georgia Island

January 29, 2021


Iceberg in the South Atlantic © Debbie McCullissBy Debbie McCulliss

Besides a global pandemic, 2020 was marked by historic wildfires, droughts, landslides, and severe storms...

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Photographing High-Key Winter Wildlife and Landscape Images
Photographing High-Key Winter Wildlife and Landscape Images
December 23, 2020

Montana Cowgirl and Horses in a Snowstorm © Debbie McCullissBy Debbie McCulliss

As a wildlife and nature photographer who loves winter photography, photographing high-key images is a favorite technique...

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Alaska’s Chilkat River Bald Eagle Preserve
Alaska’s Chilkat River Bald Eagle Preserve
Posted on NANPA websiteNovember 27, 2020

Our National Symbol © Debbie McCulliss

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. – John Muir

By Debbie McCulliss

The Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve is a world-famous, 48,000-acre area in which one of the world’s largest gatherings of bald eagles feast every fall on spawned-out chum salmon...

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Alaska’s Tongass National Forest: A Refuge
Alaska’s Tongass National Forest: A Refuge
Posted on NANPA website October 23, 2020

By Debbie McCulliss

“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue; the body seems one palate, and tingles equally throughout.”

~John Muir

In November of 2018, 40 years after my first and only trip to Alaska when I hiked the Chilkoot Trail, I was traveling again on an Alaska Marine Highway ferry—an affordable, informal cruise that took me round-trip from Juneau (Alaska’s capital city) to Haines in Southeast Alaska, where, at times, there are more eagles than people...

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Photographing Hummingbirds: A Pandemic Escape
Photographing Hummingbirds: A Pandemic Escape
Posted on NANPA website August 19, 2020

By Debbie McCulliss

On the snowy first couple of weeks of this past spring, to lessen pandemic anxiety, I was thinking of migration—movement from one region to another. It was timely. Epic animal migrations take place every spring...

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The Resilient Spirit of Yellowstone Bison
The Resilient Spirit of Yellowstone Bison
Posted on NANPA website April 17, 2020

Bison in Soda Butte Creek, a tributary of the Lamar River. Story & photos by Debbie McCulliss

Photographing bison in Yellowstone National Park is on many photographers’ bucket lists. These magnificent mammals are certainly photogenic, but learning a bit of their history, and the role they play in the ecosystem gives us a deeper understanding of both bison—or buffalo as they are known to many people, and their environment, as well as imbuing our photos with additional layers of meaning...

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Penguins, Seals, and Icebergs, Oh My!
Penguins, Seals, and Icebergs, Oh My!
Posted on NANPA website January 29, 2020

The MV Ushuaia cruising off South Georgia Island.

I spent weeks preparing and packing for my “Epic South Georgia” voyage, a photographer’s dream bucket-list trip, run by Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris...

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