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Affiliate contest results: #AnimalsoftheWorldHere are the winners of #AnimalsofTheWorld Butterfly contest!
Take some time to visit their galleries, they deserve it!

Without further ado...

1st Place goes to: ~secondclaw with

More from his gallery:

2nd Place goes to: ~awfultosee with

More from her gallery:

3rd Place goes to: *mj-magic with

More from her gallery:

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Honorable Mentions:
*morho with

`devilicious with

:devkaosah

HAPPY NOMDAY!!!Happy Nomday kitty lovers!!:iconlazywaveplz:this week we celebrate wild kitties!!!!!:iconyay-plz:

..and remember, if you have any causes you would like us to help you support or ideas for features just let us know:iconblablaplz:

March's TOP Subs of UNF-Nature & Super Info.Welcome to March 2012’s Top Submissions of Unframed-Nature.
:iconhappysunplz:
Thank you for being here whether you are a Member yet or not!
We welcome you and your support!
Since the beginning of January 2012, we’ve grown almost 500 Members!

So a MAJOR welcome to all of our NEW MEMBERS!

Thank you to our loyal Members who have been submitting to our Group for a long time now. Without you, we wouldn’t be here.

:iconwhiteflowerplz:
For March, we had a special Administrators’ CHOICE Month for the Monthly voting, which sometimes happens a few months out of the year, when things become extra busy for me, and most all of them helped with this,
and I thank these wonderful Admins. who helped with this, SO MUCH!
:clap: :heart: :clap:
And Dear Members, PLEASE feel free to come back to vote again as usual for APRIL’S TOP SUBMISSIONS!
We do love the COM

Photography Feature!Hello Everyone!
I'm pretty excited. The recent photos I uploaded into my gallery have gotten tons of attention (compared to normal) I had almost 200

s on one photo (http://hecklinghyena.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ren3x) in a couple days

Impressive for me.

So anyways, I've been stocking up since I have been so busy so this is a large feature. These beautiful photos caught my eye, as always.

away and check out their galleries! They are some wonderful photographers! Worth faving, watching, and viewing.
If you like the art feature be sure to

the article to help it get some exposure <3

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Bird-Photography and Birds-Club April Features#Bird-Photography and #Birds-Club proudly presents some of the best submissions from the month of April , chosen by me, =mydigitalmind. At the end of every month, I will go through submissions from both groups and choose the ones that stand to feature them in a News Article. I will also choose features from some of our special events that run during the month.
:iconBird-Photography: and :iconBirds-Club:
Special Features
Bird-Photography's Featured Photos
Every week, the admins from #Bird-Photography pick a photo out of the previous week's submissions that will be featured on our front page for the entire week. The following photos were featured in April .

Birds-Club Bird of the Month
Each month, #Birds-Club devotes a journal feature to a particular bird species. Members are welcome to submit as many deviations as they wan

Bird-Photography and Birds-Club May Features#Bird-Photography and #Birds-Club proudly presents some of the best submissions from the month of May, chosen by me, =mydigitalmind. At the end of every month, I will go through submissions from both groups and choose the ones that stand to feature them in a News Article. I will also choose features from some of our special events that run during the month.
:iconBird-Photography: and :iconBirds-Club:
Special Features
Bird-Photography's Featured Photos
Every week, the admins from #Bird-Photography pick a photo out of the previous week's submissions that will be featured on our front page for the entire week. The following photos were featured in May.

Birds-Club Bird of the Month
Each month, #Birds-Club devotes a journal feature to a particular bird species. Members are welcome to submit as many deviations as they want with

Bird-Photography and Birds-Club March Features#Bird-Photography and #Birds-Club proudly presents some of the best submissions from the month of March, chosen by me, =mydigitalmind. At the end of every month, I will go through submissions from both groups and choose the ones that stand to feature them in a News Article. I will also choose features from some of our special events that run during the month.
:iconBird-Photography: and :iconBirds-Club:
Special Features
Bird-Photography's Featured Photos
Every week, the admins from #Bird-Photography pick a photo out of the previous week's submissions that will be featured on our front page for the entire week. The following photos were featured in March.

Birds-Club Bird of the Month
Each month, #Birds-Club devotes a journal feature to a particular bird species. Members are welcome to submit as many deviations as they want with no pre-judgi

Raw-Nature's Easter Feature X2 + Birthday Features

:iconeastereggplz: Happy Easter :iconeastereggplz:

Here are just a few of the beautiful images that have been accepted into the group this week
We also have two members (that I know of) with Birthdays this week. They are
:iconfeigenfrucht: and :iconjacquelinebarkla:
Please Fave/comment on this feature so that more people will see it

winners featureas you may know, *Allerlei held "spots and stripes" contest, she got a lot amazing entries

so and the winners are
1st place

by *nari-me

2nd place

by :devWolfing01:

3rd place
by *Simbas-pal

1st dA poll places
by *Shadow-and-Flame-86

AND
by*Krissey

1st facebook place
by *Eviecats
:thumb9880

January FeatureWINTER
"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”"
- Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Winners of February Theme - Cats and windowsHere are the lovely winners of February Theme - Cats and windows
:iconakinosora:

More from this artist:

:iconaemiii:

More from this artist:

:iconWhatIdo4fun: got third place with this work http://whatido4fun.deviantart.com/art/Early-morning-342800857 - but because we received evidence tha

Feature for Contest Winners!Edit
So that last journal skin I had didn't seem to want to scroll...so I'll switch it over to this one for the features.
I keep forgetting when I offer to feature winners from group contests, so thank you for reminding me!
First up is the Zoo Photographer of the year from :iconZoo-photographers:
1st place
:iconmorho: with

2nd place
:icondarkSoul4Life: with

Best Action Shot
:iconDeeOtter: with

Best Portrait
:iconFriendFrog: with
Best Moment
:iconTiefenschaerfe: with
Best Endangered Species
:iconMisty-Dawn: with
Honorable Mentions

Photography adventureFor February 2013 I am posing a photography challenge:
To do a 1 picture a day all throughout February, in itself that`s not really a challenge, the challenge lies in the photos, straight out of the camera shot with basicly no editing ( lens correction and max 5% of sharpening/clarity to the images ) and no cropping.
If HDR is needed it is natural HDR as close to what you saw as possible.
I think most knows that for an image to be catching and interesting among many others it needs a lot of contrast, vibrancy and be sharp ( without going over the top. ) so in essence this challenge is to make catching photos with no editing, that again makes the selection of subject to shoot so much more important.
This way of shooting is a really good way to learn, and I think anyone who does something like this will be a better photographer for it.
If you think this sounds like fun, go to your gallery can make a new folder called "February shootout" and reply to this thread with a link

:devZoos-R-Us: Winter contest winnersHere's a feature for the winners of the winter contest hosted by #Zoos-R-Us
First place goes to *DeeOtter

Second place goes to ~silverwing-sparrow

Third place goes to *Lenmanaa

Recent Features

Dose of Inspiration - Round #2THANK YOU ALL FOR THE
SUBMISSIONS, HOPE YOU HAD FUN
:icontrampolinefunplz:
It's time for the most inspirational gems
from the last round:

:iconbummy1::iconbummy2::iconbummy3:
Congratulations to all the featured artists!
And a round of applause to every deviant who has participated in the prompt, your works were all unique in its own way and it was lovely seeing the photos you have come up with.
It wasn't easy picking only 9 submissions but we do have a feature limit that we have to abide by to ensure equality.
Don't despair or give up for there are still more prompts to come!
:iconrainbowwaveplz1::iconrainbowwaveplz2::iconrainbowwaveplz3:
Last round's prompt was about:
"CHASING THE SUN"
Check out some of the

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Zoo Photographer of the Year 2012 Winners!

Journal Entry: Wed Jan 30, 2013, 4:52 AM

Zoo Photographer of the Year 2012 - WINNERS!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Zoo Photographer of the year! Thank you to every one who entered, we had 96 submissions which is a fantastic response. I wish everyone a great year of zoo photography in 2013! Prizes will be sent out tonight (hopefully, as long as I have been paid today! If not then in the next few days)

1st - *morho

2nd - *darkSoul4Life

Best Action Shot - *DeeOtter Best Portrait - =FriendFrog Best Moment - *Tiefenschaerfe Best Endangered Species - ~Misty-Dawn

Honourable mentions

Judges
Many thanks to the judges, the admin of #Zoo-photographers! =TVD-Photography, ~caybeach *Tiennaand *Shadow-and-Flame-86

Prizes

1st Place will win a 6 month premium membership from me. AND thanks to the lovely

a sketch commission from herself!

2nd Place will win a 3 month premium membership from me.

Instead of third places, there will be four 'Best of...' categories including 'best action shot', 'best portrait', 'best moment caught' and 'best endangered species' Each winner will win a 1 month premium membership from me.

Winning Features given by...

Entries
Can be seen here:
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Thanks again to everyone that took part and all the judges for their work on going through the entries!

January Theme 2 - Reptiles

Our current theme is Reptiles!
This can be any photo of a zoo animal species that is a reptile. We will reject photos that we don't feel fit the theme. This theme will run for two weeks then change on the 3rd February.

Vote Feedback for what to do with this group in 2013

Thank you all for voting to help suggest what the admin should focus their energy on for this group. The most popular choice by far was tutorials for improving your zoo photos, so we will try to write one of these every other month. One the months were there is no tutorial, we will try to do the second most popular option, zoo reviews. However these will also depend on you guys! I can write zoo reviews for zoos in the UK, and some of the admin can write reviews for their local zoos, but this will be a pretty small selection! So once we have established a format for the reviews, it would be great if members could submit reviews of their favorite, or least favourite zoos!

Mini Contest - ON HOLD

While we run the 'Zoo Photograhper of the Year' Contest there will not be any mini-contests, sorry! They will start up again in the new year once the winners for the big contest have been announced. So hopefully next week!

Submission Rules

You may submit 2 photos per week into the bi-weekly theme and 1 photo per week into the featured folder. There is no current bi-weekly theme as we are closed for christmas.

Here is how to submit a photo properly:

1. Join the club as a member.
2. Open our gallery and click on 'Submit to this Gallery.'.
4. Choose which folder you would like to submit to by using the drop down menu.
5. Pick your photo, and you're set!

Featured Folder
This gallery is for photos that represent the best of our member's work. Staff members will vote on these photos, it takes two accepts to be included in this gallery. Be sure to submit your best work because we will accept nothing but the best. One submission per week.

For a visual guide as to what shots will not be accepted into this folder, please see this journal: [link]

Themed Folders

Our current themed folder is REPTILES. You may submit up to 2 photos to it per week. There is no quality control on these folders, all that is required is the animal featured in the photo is in a zoo and fits the theme. The theme changes every 2 weeks, so if you don't have any photos that fit the theme this time, you can submit when the theme changes.

Staff Choice Gallery

Each week the staff will look over the submissions to the “My Best Shot” and the current month theme and select up to 10 photos that they feel are the best of the ones that were submitted. Those photos will be featured in the Staff Choice Gallery and put to a member vote.

Photo of the Week Gallery

The photos chosen each week by the staff are voted on by the members, the winning photo is displayed for the next week on the group’s front page as the Photo of the Week.

Our Affiliates...

is holding a contest for 'bird interactions'! for more details see here: [link]

Photo of the Week is...

~Chikrata's cheetah shot! Congrats!