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:

7823

Grade:

8

Photo caption:

There is always beauty beneath the snow

Photographer's Statement:

We were on a Sunday walk when we came up to this fence that separated a group of horses from ourselves. On the opposite side of the fence there were small little buds of grass, and small plants poking through the snow. It really made it feel like the seasons were changing into spring. The photo demonstrates and shows the plants resting and blowing in the wind on the other side of the fence, facing the cold snow to reach the sun.