Hilda Champion - Creatures

"Chasing New Horizons"

2025 reFocus Professional B&W Awards – Nominee People's Choice

2025 Monovision Awards - Honorable Mention

Taxiing before Take-Off

Early Risers

Cranes and Snow Geese in New Mexico

"Calling All Herons"

2023 Monochrome Awards - Honorable Mention

"Pulled Together"

"All Florida" Juried Exhibition 2022 Fort Myers, FL

"Reflections in Flame"

2025 International Publication 1x.com

2025 DPI-SIG Yellow Ribbon

"Three Graces"

"Good Neighbors"

2021 Rookery Bay Annual Juried Exhibition "Natural Selection" - Merit Award

2021 ND Awards - Honorable Mention

2024 Chromatic Awards - Honorable Mention

"The Green Shield"

About being small and vulnerable and enjoying the shelter and protection of a larger entity.

Storks and cranes are some of the larger birds residing in Florida. While storks may look very awkward on land, they too, just like the cranes, are gracious flyers.

Florida Wood Stork

"Forever Love"

"Evening Beauty"

Publication 1x.com

"Perfection"

2022 Black & White Spider Awards - Nominee

"Cranes in the Mist"

"Marsh View"

Alligators are some of my favorite subjects in the animal kingdom, so primordial and yet so well adapted. During mating season they leave their safe habitat and can even be found in city streets.

"Alligator Apocalypse"

"My Kingdom"

Florida Camera Club Council, 2019 - Yellow Ribbon

Annual Photography Awards 2019 - Honorable Mention

2020 Monovisons Photography Awards , Honorable Mention

2022 Rookery Bay - Annual Juried Show

"Having my Eyes on You"

"Looking for a Date?"

"The Ancient Ones"

2021 Finalist Motif Collection B&W

2021 Florida Camera Club Council - Silver Ribbon

2021 - Budapest International Foto Award - Silver Medal

"Colgate Smile"

2024 Florida Camera Club Council - Silver Ribbon

2024 Motif Collection "Portrait" - Finalist

"Out on a Limb"

"Heading Home"

2020 Tokyo International Foot Awards - Bronze Medal

"Focus Mode"

"Florida Still Life"

"Reflecting"

"Anhinga Pointe"

Elegance in Motion

"Call of the Wild"

"Elegance in Motion"

2021 Monovision Awards - Honorable Mention

2021 Black & White Spider Awards - Honorable Mention

2022 Julia Margaret Cameron Award - Honorable Mention

2022 Prix de la Photographie Paris - Honorable Mention

2023 Juried Exhibition "All Florida"

2023 Annual Photography Awards - Honorable Mention

"All this Beauty"

Small but mighty.

You can observe SW Florida's burrowing owls on sandy, empty waterfront lots in Cape Coral and Marco Island where they live in underground burrows. During spring breeding season, they maintain a small territory comprising the nesting burrow and the immediate surroundings. Although small – they only reach 8 inches in height – they will a stare down any intruder with their almost hypnotic gaze.