2012-13 Tn. Wildlife Calendar Photo Contest Winners Named

Thursday, May 03, 2012

The winning entries for the 2012-13 Tennessee Wildlife magazine photo contest have been selected by staff members of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. The selections will appear in the annual calendar issue of the magazine which will be available in early July.

The staff selected the winning photographs from hundreds of submissions and had the challenge to narrow the entries to 13 photos that will appear in the calendar issue. The 2012-13 calendar issue will begin with the month of August.

The photographers, who have entries that will appear in the 2012-13 calendar, are Andrew Collignon (Brentwood), Wallace Covington (Union City), Sam Hobbs (Goodspring), Jim Jones (Pinson), Roger Phipps (Spring City), Brian Shults (Greenback), and Ryan Yoder (Maryville).

The staff of Tennessee Wildlife offers congratulations to all of our winners and reminds photographers that if your photo was not chosen this year, your next year’s entry could be a winner.  Rules and deadlines for the 2013-14 Tennessee Wildlife photo contest will appear in the fall and winter issues of the magazine and also in the fall on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s website, www.tnwildlife.org. Photographers will be invited to submit their best photos on fishing and wildlife species native to the Volunteer State, and fishing and hunting scenes in Tennessee.

Tennessee Wildlife is an official publication of the TWRA.


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