Photo Contest Winning Photos

Don't Come Any Closssser
Photographer   Patty Brinkmeyer
Location  Brazoria NWR, Brazoria County
Category   Wildlife Vertebrates Refuge
Award  1st Place, Best of Show and People's Choice Award

Green Anole
Photographer   Patty Brinkmeyer
Location  Brazoria, Brazoria County
Category   Wildlife Vertebrates Texas Mid-Coast
Award  1st Place

Complacent
Photographer   Crystal Masters
Location  Brazoria NWR, Brazoria County
Category   Birds Refuge
Award  1st Place; Judges' Choice

Sprinkled with Pollen
Photographer   Patty Brinkmeyer
Location  San Bernard NWR, Brazoria County
Category   Wildlife Invertebrates Refuge
Award  1st Place

My Reflection in a Hoverfly
Photographer   Patty Brinkmeyer
Location  Brazoria, Brazoria County
Category   Wildlife Invertebrates Texas Mid-Coast
Award  1st Place

Silence
Photographer   Dawn Hays
Location  Brazoria NWR, Brazoria County
Category   Habitats and Ecosystems Refuge
Award  1st Place

Sunset Glow
Photographer   Barbara Rabek
Location  Anahuac NWR, Chambers County
Category   Landscape/Scenery/Nature as Art Texas Mid-Coast
Award  1st Place

Showy Nerveray
Photographer   Richard Howard
Location  Brazos Bend State Park, Fort Bend County
Category   Plants Texas Mid-Coast
Award  1st Place

Two in a Million
Photographer   Richard Howard
Location  Anahuac NWR, Chambers County
Category   Birds Texas Mid-Coast
Award  1st Place

Photos by Richard Schaffhausen

Photo Contest Exhibit

Butterfly Encounter Tent with Tom Schneider

Butterfly Encounter tent

Assembling the Volunteer Check-in Tent

Bryan Adams (the Butterfly) with Tom Schneider and visitors

Richard Schaffhausen; Bryan Adams

Photo Contest Exhibit

Brazoria County Parks Department

Friends of Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuges

Houston-Galveston Area Council exhibit; Butterfly encounter beyond

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service with Pete Romfh

Sea Turtle Patrol

Food sales

Refuge Junior Naturalist Program

Nature Store

Bake Sale

Fire Equipment Building

Live Reptiles

Live Reptiles

Live Reptiles

Birds of Prey: Storm, Andean Condor, female

Kids Fishing

Kids fishing

Air Rifles

Bug Sweeping

Birds of Prey

Become a Refuge Junior Naturalist, with Jen Brown

Animal pelts and footprints

Friends of Brazoria Wildlife Refuges

Photo Contest exhibit

Fish prints

Kids Art

Kids Art

Bug Sweeping

Air Rifles

Bug sweeping

Microscope Lab let by Denis James

Fish Prints

Kids Art

Touch Tank provided by Sea Center Texas, a unit of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

Touch Tank provided by Sea Center Texas, a unit of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

Kids Fishing

Clockwise from front: Mickey Dufilho, David Plunkett, Jennifer Sanchez, Ed Barrios

Setting up the food tent