Greg Shchepanek

 Popular Photography It is always a great pleasure to win competitions or get your photo published be it in a magazine, website, social media campaign or just featured along with your name. I find it mind blowing   when they go  viral  and move like a shooting star through the internet. I like to enter photo competitions that is why I don't post-process editing and retouching on any of my photos. Most competitions ask that you don't enter manipulated photos, you need to let the camera do its job. I recently won first prize in a competition called  Nature's Camouflage  where I entered a photograph that was taken with my first digital camera purchase  Panasonic DMC-ZS20 .  The photograph that came in first place was of a frog, one of my favourite subjects, immersed in duckweed and water vegetation : Northern Green Frog  ( Lithobates clamitans melanota ) Baie de les grenouilles, Lac Saint-François National Wildlife Area, Quebec, Canada. Ram...

 Nature & Wildlife Site Northern Green Frog ( Lithobates clamitans melanota ) Foley Mountain Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada. Featured on the Project Noah Facebook page on November 7th, 2024. About the Project Project Noah is an award-winning software platform designed to help people connect with the natural world and learn about wildlife. Launched out of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in early 2010, the project began as an experiment to mobilize citizen scientists and build a digital butterfly net for the 21st century. The original Project Noah platform was founded by Yasser Ansari , Martin Ceperley, Peter Horvath, and Bruno Kruse with support from New York University and the Joan Ganz Conney Center . Participation I have been an active member on the Project Noah   community website pretty much since its inception in 2010. I first learned of the site from my participation in the National Geographic Your Shot global photo community. " NOAH " ...

 Communities Hi there   I have been participating in Citizen Scientists ' web platforms since about 2010. I use them to feature my photography and to identify unknown species. I was just wondering if anyone else uses these sites and which ones are your favourites ? Some sites I use frequently are Project Noah , iNaturalist , JungleDragon , PhotoClub-Canadian Geographic  and Macroderie . What are yours and how do you identify your subjects ?  Project Noah  was my first community that I joined I learned about being a member of National Geographic Your Shot it was meant to be a mobile phone application to help identify nature species from around the world. It was a great community to discover like minded explorers and I made a few good acquaintances along my  journey. It is an  online community dedicated to explore and document wildlife across the globe. " Noah " is an acronym for " networked organisms and habitats ". The initial  application wa...