After thousands of votes and 20 amazing photos, we finally have our finalists! Now it’s up to you to pick the Grand Prize winner of our 13th annual Birds & Blooms Backyard Photo Contest.
Blue Sky Morning
"I plant morning glory vines so I can have beautiful flowers like this greet me every day," writes Koreen Appleby of Rochester, New York. "The sky was so blue and the flowers were so pretty."
Lots of Dots
"At 15, I’m just getting into photography," writes Turner Coulson of Collinsville, Texas. "I was outside taking pictures of our family friend Dara. She picked up this fake butterfly and, thinking it was real, had this priceless expression on her face."
Airborne
"I was trying to photograph goldfinches when I spotted this tufted titmouse on a branch," says Doris Dumrauf of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. "I took a couple of photos, and when I looked at the bird on my computer screen, I saw that it was airborne!"
Sweet Escape
"I have many daylilies in my backyard and I love to take pictures of them," says Anne Schwartz Hoehn of Columbia, Pennsylvania. "Taking butterfly photos is also a hobby, so when I saw this swallowtail on one of my daylilies, it made for the perfect photo."
