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:

8148

Grade:

8

Photo caption:

And she lived apple-ly ever after

Photographer's Statement:

This photo is an apple that has fallen and has rotted. This is kinda like me, as a person. At times being a person is hard…and you fall and sometimes you even rot. Even though this apple has fallen it can still be ok and get replanted and turn into something beautiful. That gives me hope because I have really struggled with metal health problems in the past. Right now I feel like the apple just rotting away. When my dad passed away I was only 5 years old and I had 5 siblings the oldest being 12 and the youngest being 2. I also had a twin so little twins were not ideal. Growing up without a dad really affected me in ways I never thought could. Which in the long run have affected my mental health in some aspects. But even though I am struggling a little right now there is still that amazing feeling of the amazing people in my life, and that feeling of knowing that I can still have my happily ever after.