DNREC hunting photo contest winners announced
DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife announced the winning entries in the 2017-18 Delaware Hunting Photo Contest. First place was awarded to Angela Garcia of Smyrna for “At the End of the Day,” featuring her husband Paul and son Dominic on their boat during a hunting trip in Little Creek.
The second-place winner was “Son and Father,” taken by F. Neil Dougherty of Hockessin, showing family friends Dan Elliott and his son Joseph Elliott at the end of a successful hunt at Raymond Neck.
Entries receiving honorable mention were “Rehoboth Bay Ice Fog,” by Justyn Foth of Viola, featuring his uncles and friend hunting in Rehoboth Bay; “Patience is a Virtue,” by Charles Burton of Milton, featuring his Chesapeake Bay retriever Ruby Bay near Gordons Pond; and “Tranquility,” by Taylor Deemer of Lewes, featuring Samantha Broadhurst with a kayak full of decoys at Collins Pond.
The winning photo will appear on the cover and inside the 2018-19 Delaware Hunting & Trapping Guide. The guide will be available in July 2018 online, at the DNREC license desk in Dover and from hunting license agents statewide.
Three judges – Division of Fish & Wildlife Director David Saveikis, and local photographers Jesse Baird and Rebecca Hoover, both DNREC employees – reviewed the entries and narrowed them to the top five. Photographs were judged relative to the contest theme of A Day Afield, and for composition and technical criteria.
“The division’s annual hunting photo contest provides a great opportunity for hunters to capture and share their hunting experiences, which can inspire other hunters to enjoy, photograph, and share their hunting experiences in Delaware’s great outdoors,” said Saveikis.
For more information about future photo contests, go to www.de.gov/fwphotos or contact Jennifer Childears at 302-739-9910 or jennifer.childears@state.de.us.
