Idaho Forest Products Commission

Arbor Day Student Photo Contest

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2024 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, Healthy Tree, Healthy Me. In addition to their photo, contestants provided a statement sharing their vision of the photo’s portrayal of the theme.

Deadline: April 8th, 2024

Contestant:

767

Grade:

11

Student:

Viviana Ochoa | Meridian High School | Meridian, ID

Photo caption:

Fading Away

Honorable Mention

Photographer's Statement:

When I look at my photograph, I think about how blind the world is towards the importance of trees. Our love and appreciation for them is slowly disappearing, much alike the branches in my photograph, because of this ignorant warp state of mind. We must look around and realize not only a tree’s beauty, but mother nature itself, for it is the basis of human life.