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California Watchable Wildlife Photo Contest

Grand Prize Award Presentation

February was the final month of the year-long Photo Contest. We would like to thank the photographers who submitted almost 900 images over the course of the year.

Their beautiful images have been appreciated by readers of Outdoor California, by visitors to the California Watchable Wildlife display at numerous wildlife festivals, and enjoyed and shared by visitors to our Facebook page. Our website is so much more colorful and attractive with these spectacular images!

Please join us at 1:00pm on Monday, April 23, 2012 when California Department of Fish & Game Director Chuck Bonham presents the Grand Prize Award on the South Steps of the State Capitol. The twelve monthly first-place winning images will be on display outside the Governor's Office from April 23-27.

Please watch for our People's Choice Award email, and vote for your selection from all 36 monthly winning images. The People's Choice winner will also be recognized at the Capitol on April 23.

See all the monthly winners and entries on Facebook. We hope you will continue to visit our website, to recommend the California Watchable Wildlife Facebook page to your friends, and share your stories about California's premier wildlife viewing experiences!

The February winning photos, along with the Grand Prize winning image, will be published in the March/April issue of Outdoor California. 

The year-long contest was conducted in cooperation with Outdoor California, a bi-monthly publication of the California Department of Fish & Game.

Watchable Wildlife Photo Contest

Grand Prize Award Presentation

1:00-3:00pm Monday, April 23, 2012

South Steps, California State Capitol

Sacramento, California

California Artists Put on Incredible Show at Oakwilde Ranch Exhibition

Best of Show is Amazing Life-sized Ceramic Puppet
by Barbara L. Steinberg

Fresh in off the road from Oakwilde Ranch & Sculpture and a most amazing event. In time I will write more and post all the photos, but for the moment...the incredible Best of Show winner of the 2012 Spring Sculpture Exhibition was an incredibly talented young woman, Hijiri Yahagi.

One of three in the life-sized series "I Am Puppet".

The exhibition, juried by Scott Shields, Chief Curator of Crocker Art Museum, is open by appointment only for the next six weeks. "I would have selected any one of the three for Best of Show," Scott said!

Contact Oakwilde Ranch & Sculpture in Valley Springs -- Calaveras County, in case you're wondering.