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:

8085

Grade:

11

Photo caption:

Blooming into color

Photographer's Statement:

In nature there’s a simple yet complex beauty that is most often highlighted in the shift between season. From Fall to Winter life regresses back to a gloomy state but it again springs to life and that’s what I hoped to highlight in my photo the regrowth and intense splash of color that returns to the world. No matter the conditions life will always return again and bring with it the colors that highlight our forests and world.