Nature Photography Day

Nature Photography Day was begun in 2006 by the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and is celebrated each year on June 15.

Nature’s everywhere including the small, not very obvious, ordinary things. The weed growing in the crack in the driveway, the pigeons on the bridge – they’re nature just as much as the rarest of orchids and the bird far from its usual distribution.

 

You can take a nature photograph with the least expensive of cameras or the camera in your cellphone and have an image that you may want to keep and share with other folks.

It may be hard to find the time to to look closely and appreciate nature – but Nature Photography Day is a day to pause for a moment to appreciate the beauty and importance of nature.

Take some time to find a few beautiful and inspiring photographs of the natural world, they may be online or in a magazine or book, and pause for just a moment to consider how poor this world would be without the things in those photos.