Fall Color Assignment Winner Ross Stone

We received over 600 submissions to our two-week-long Fall Color Photography Assignment. Congratulations to Ross Stone for winning with the image, “The Cottonwood Forest Is Magick.” See more of Ross Stone’s photography at www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/.

View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots!

"Before The Deluge" By Harry Lichtman

The Surfing Life

How a lifelong love and respect for the ocean inspires my photography.

Rafting Grand Canyon

For a new photo perspective on this iconic landscape, take a trip down the Colorado River.

Ends Of The Earth

Paul Nicklen on his career in conservation photography, climate change in the polar regions and his new book, Born To Ice, celebrating those ecosystems and their inhabitants.

Pumas Of Patagonia

Private lands adjacent to Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, now opening to photographers, provide an unparalleled opportunity for observing wild puma behavior.

Lake Of The Clouds

Best times and locations to photograph in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan.

Parks For The People

George Grant toiled in obscurity for nearly three decades as the first official photographer of the National Park Service. Ren and Helen Davis want to make sure his story isn’t lost to history.

"Before The Deluge" By Harry Lichtman

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