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:

8215

Grade:

10

Photo caption:

Blossoming into Adolescence

Photographer's Statement:

Growing up, we had two giant Japanese Cherry Blossom trees in our front yard. I remember running to our neighbors’ houses and knocking on their doors telling them to come over so that we could make potions with the petals. Once we moved away when I was eleven, we didn’t have the same neighbors or the beautiful pink trees. The season of blossoms only lasted for about a week, which always went by in a flash. Leaving childhood and coming into adolescence, I look back and remember the fun times with our neighbors, and all the fun times, which have now faded to just memories.