Greg Shchepanek

 Another Week of Competitions and Rankings #1 = American Bullfrog ( Lithobates catesbeianus ) Bill Mason Centre, Dunrobin, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  My frogs are proving to be my best photographs on the web. I am very fortunate to have a variety of frogs to photograph here in Canada and they are happy to pose for the camera. This week on Photocrowd saw some rankings from Premium Contests that came to fruition and shake up what my popular photos are on the site. I am now in 3,252 position with 155,915 ranking points, up 730 from last week. My two other sites that I participate in are PULSEpx and Viewbug they don't have rankings for my photos and are basically quests and competitions but Viewbug has an awards system where I have acquired 118 awards to date on my photographs that I have uploaded there my Snowshoe Hare photos prove to be most popular.  Viewbug Awards #2 = Ghost Tiger Beetle ( Ellipsoptera lepida ) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Conservation Status: imperiled (N2N...

 Search for me on gettyimages.ca Monarch Caterpillar So very delighted to have 58 photos chosen for purchase on the gettyimages website. Here you can select high-resolution stock photography for sale at a variety of sizes. I am so very happy that this Canadian website has decided to feature my photography and offer a selection for purchase through their site. Most of the images chosen are nature specific because that is the subject matter I usually chose to follow. Only one image is none nature, a photograph of bubbles that I shot at home. Experiment with bubbles In the past I have been credited to have some of my photos chosen for publication but have not been any monetary price attached to such published images. I was so very honoured to have my first published photo selected by Ramsar: The Convention on Wetlands an international organization dedicated to the protection on Wetlands of International Importance . The image that was selected was of a Northern Green Frog photographe...