COLSA Photo Contest

COLSA Photo Contest
An image of a stand of beech trees, looking upwards at their crowns from the ground.

How to Vote:

  • Step 1: Click on the photos below to view them in pop-up boxes and read the submitted captions. The photo number precedes the caption.
  • Step 2: Note your three (3) favorite photos and the number assigned to each photo in the captions. When voting for a photo, use only the number in the caption box—not the image number that appears on the far left of the photo when in a pop-up box.
  • Step 3: Submit your three (3) favorite photos using the Photo Contest voting form.

Step 4: Wait to see who wins! Voting ends Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. Winners will be announced by Friday, Jan. 10, 2025.

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Please vote for your top three (3) favorite photos!

Two islands covered by clouds. A village in the distance, water in the foreground, and a rainbow touching down into the waters to the right of the village. A closeup of a praying mantis among evergreen branches. A monarch butterfly on a red flower, a forest in the background. Brown bats peeking out from beneath a structure. An array of mushrooms, sticks, leaves and other forest findings set out on a table and surrounded by people. A tractor standing in a field, mist in the background rising up and a partly cloudy sky above it. A white female removing shoes from a brown horse. Three photos showing the same rider with a horse, checking its bite, riding the horse and standing with the horse. The northern lights appearing above trees located across the UNH lawn. Two hands holding out three purple martin baby birds. A red-tailed hawk sitting among branches in a tree. A chipmunk sitting on a branch. Fall foliage, trees with leaves still hanging on them and covering the ground below them. A loon swimming in the water. A woodchuck appearing beneath some branches. A monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. Red nasturtiums planted in a small garden. A microscopic image of a leaf. Several sunflowers in front of a brick building below a clear blue sky. Two gloved hands holding an orange and brown moth. Looking up at a drone from between corn stalks. Orange mushrooms peering out beneath leaf litter on a forest floor. A student holding a kiwiberry leaf out to a small brown bird. A hiker’s boots next to an orange-colored newt crawling on the ground. A trail sign on Mt. Washington, above treeline and beneath a clouded sky. A group of students standing around a black-colored pig. A group of students standing among dairy cows. A group of students standing next to two large black-colored oxen. A microscopic image of an oyster larva. A hand held out with a tiny brown crab walking on it. A microscopic image crab zoea. A moonlight sky above ocean waters. A photo of a comet streaking across a night sky. Hand holding on to a group of white flowers with greenery in the background. The sunrise rising just above the ocean, sky turning orange and rocks and a sand beach in the foreground. A group of tiny, grey colored fish looking at the viewer from behind a glass tank. A woman stands in front of a gated cave entrance, trees and foliage hanging over the sides of the cave mouth. A researcher putting up an acoustic and thermal reader while wearing a headlamp to collect data on emerging brown bats. Researchers attach recording devices to a tree. The researchers wear orange and yellow vests and stand in a forest. Small mushrooms peek out among moss growing on a tree. A black and white image of thicket of bushes and tree branches, rain dew covering them. A group of people walking through a partly cleared wooded site examining the surroundings and grass growing there. An evening sky, just after sunset, orange still on the horizon and in the foreground a lake and treeline. Trees showing fall foliage and in the background a sky covered by grey clouds and streaked with jet trails. The antlered head of a moose peaks out from a grassy field, a forest in the background. Four jars lined up and filled with different colored glowing, transparent liquids. A gloved hand holds a tweezer with 2 colored samples in them being dipped into liquid nitrogen. A tweezer holds two vials of liquid, one purple and one pink, before dipping them into liquid nitrogen. A clouded sky streaked by orange, red, yellow and blue just at sunrise. A dark treeline shows in the lower half. A black salamander with yellow dots half in and half out of a puddle of water. Tan and brown mushrooms growing out from a tree limb that's also covered by lichen and moss. An array of tree branches showing flowers blooming with blue sky and wisps of white clouds in the background. The view from Thompson Hall arch looking out on a flag and flag pole and trees with fall foliage. A brilliantly colored tree covered by leaves of red, orange and yellow. An adult female fisher with a beautiful silver coat walks through a forest. A brown coated ermine sits on a snow-covered tree limb and looks directly into the camera. Laying on a leaf-covered forest floor is equipment used for tracking and collaring mammals and a yellow rope in the background. A green frog sits on a rock on the edge of water that reflects the sky. A red-tailed hawk looks directly at the viewer. A green mountain in the background beneath a blue, partly clouded sky. In the foreground, a pond reflects the sky and is bordered by grass. A scuba diver underwater holds a set of PVC pipes in one hand and a card in the other. The card is also being held by a small lobster. Three researchers dressed in white outfits with hardhats and headlamps on examine a section of cave. Researchers dressed in protective gear arrange various tools and data instruments within a cave. A researcher wearing a hardhat and protective gear looks off to the site while on the cave wall in front of her clings a bat. A bee sits on a white and yellow flower. A barnacle is magnified under a microscope. A bright red flower grows out of the ground, other similar flowers in the background behind it. A black and white cow looks straight at the viewer. On her ear is a yellow tag and behind her a barn. A drawing pad lays on the barren ground. On it are sketches of a lawn scene and in the background is a lawn with trees in it. A professor stands at a table in a lecture hall, writing something on the desk. Behind him is a whiteboard with writing on it. A still life display for a drawing class shows various objects, including vases and gourds. The backdrop is a blue cloth and in the front of the display are drawing chairs. A dappled black and white baby bird covered in what looks like fur sits in a nest of grass and reeds. A yellow bird sits on a stick above a bush and in front of a blue sky. A group of flying birds, white and black in color, fly in a blue sky. Behind them is a village. An image of the inside of a high tunnel showing tanks of water and trays holding small plants. Two fingers hold on to an oyster shell in which spat (baby oysters) grow upon in. behind the oyster and fingers is a wood table, a pile of additional oysters, and an aqua colored measuring device. Two sets of gloved hands sort through a tray of oysters. One hand sprays the oysters with a hose. A gloved hand holds out an oyster that's shaped like a heart. Two hands open a small piece of styrofoam, revealing a tiny plant growing up in the center of the styrofoam. A series of cups and petri dishes show different amounts and types of microplastic particles. A series of peaks in the distance beneath a clear, sunlit sky. Evergreen trees in the foreground have snow upon their limbs. A man with dark hair and dark skin kneels in mud before a tree, adding stakes into the ground. A group of people walk along a trail along the coast of an island. To the left is the island shoreline and to the right bushes spread out to the horizon. Two people in the middle of the image kneel in marsh grass. Above them a mostly clear, blue sky; in the background a line of trees and a few small white buildings; and in the foreground is marsh grass. A closeup of a bush branch with several small white flowers growing on it. A white and yellow lily floats in a pond among lily pads.

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