NatureScapes.Net 2007 Images of the Year: Creatures of the Art Spirit

With this, our Images of the Year issue, we announce the winners for the 2007 Images of the Year and congratulate all participants from NatureScapes 2007 who posted 26,455 images, wrote 337,913 comments and thoughtful critiques and grew their craft and art so well. Robert Henri (1865 – 1929), the great art educator and critic, is quoted in The Art Spirit: "Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. When the artist is alive in any person . . . [that person] becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

After viewing thousands of highly appealing, inventive and often daring images, picking only six first-place winners was a serious challenge. For the first time, we added two honorable mentions in each of the six categories.

Besides having technical superiority, winning images were selected for one or more traits: artistry, action, a purpose such as conservation and most of all – a scene seldom seen.

We are especially pleased to thank the forum moderators who make the Image of the Week suggestions and monitor the forums week after week. The moderators manage in a fair, kind and most often modest manner. Like the technical advisors and contributing authors who so freely give their expertise and time to help others, they shine! What they do (which is what we love), they do so well.

To see the winning images please visit: 2007 Images of the Year Awards

Congratulations!

For more information on how to participate for 2008, please visit the Images of the Year prizes and information page.

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