Idaho Forest Products Commission

Arbor Day Student Photo Contest

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2025 Arbor Day Photo Contest

To celebrate Arbor Day, the Idaho Forest Products Commission sponsors a Photo Contest each year. The competition is open to all Idaho youth in 5th-12th grades. For the 2024 contest, young photographers addressed the theme, Seasons of Change: The Dynamics of Idaho’s Forests. In addition to their photo, contestants provided a statement sharing their vision of the photo’s portrayal of the theme.

Deadline: April 7th, 2025

Contestant:

6526

Grade:

11

Photo caption:

The Future of the Past

Photographer's Statement:

I captured this image over the summer in Lowman, and, to me, this piece made up of 408 separate images represents how, even something that seems to be as unchanging as the stars, is actually reimagining itself in ways you could never notice in a single instant. Just as you could never predict the exact path of any one star, and just as you could never notice said path in a single moment, hence is the connection to the dynamic change we see in not only forests, but nature as a whole, as the paths walked by the past pave the way for the future, season after season.