2026 Image Of The Year

Judges:

Randy Oleson, Casey Galvin and Marty McKay

2026 Image Of The Year - Color Print

1st	A Flame in the Storm	Jacob (Jian) Xu
HM	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail	Sherry Ma
HM	Chinese Yellow Mountain at sunset	Dick Roman
HM	University of Washington	Frederick Emch

A Flame in the Storm — A Flame in the Storm
Jacob (Jian) Xu

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail — Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Sherry Ma

Chinese Yellow Mountain at sunset — Chinese Yellow Mountain at sunset
Dick Roman

University of Washington — University of Washington
Frederick Emch

2026 Image Of The Year - Nature

1st	Prairie Dog Hugs	Richard Schons
HM	Short-eared Owl	Jacob (Jian) Xu
HM	Mid Air Catch	Gerald H. Emmerich, Jr., Jr., HonFPSA, GMPSA/P
HM	Fiery Skipper in morning dew	Mark Burgess

Prairie Dog Hugs — Prairie Dog Hugs
Richard Schons

Short-eared Owl — Short-eared Owl
Jacob (Jian) Xu

Mid Air Catch — Mid Air Catch
Gerald H. Emmerich, Jr., Jr., HonFPSA, GMPSA/P

Fiery Skipper in morning dew — Fiery Skipper in morning dew
Mark Burgess

2026 Image Of The Year - Open Digital Image

1st	Winter Bonding	Anita Merrigan
HM	Ride through the storm!	Sherry Ma
HM	Memories of long ago	Barbie Steps
HM	Z8W5614-2	Jacob (Jian) Xu

Winter Bonding — Winter Bonding
Anita Merrigan

Ride through the storm! — Ride through the storm!
Sherry Ma

Memories of long ago — Memories of long ago
Barbie Steps

Z8W5614-2 — Z8W5614-2
Jacob (Jian) Xu

2026 Image Of The Year - Photojournalism

1st	GO! (Mud Bull Racing)	Liping Wang
HM	In the Barrel Zone	Sherry Ma
HM	Calf Roper Drops the Loop	Bernard Gerdelman
HM	Victory	Frederick Emch

GO! (Mud Bull Racing) — GO! (Mud Bull Racing)
Liping Wang

In the Barrel Zone — In the Barrel Zone
Sherry Ma

Calf Roper Drops the Loop — Calf Roper Drops the Loop
Bernard Gerdelman

Victory — Victory
Frederick Emch

2026 Image of the Year - Travel

1st	Winter Cabin by the Creek	Leechee Zhang
HM	Church of St. Primus - Slovenia	Jeff Hirsch
HM	Golden Breath of the Palouse	Jacob (Jian) Xu
HM	Winter Light at the Fishing Village	Leechee Zhang

Winter Cabin by the Creek — Winter Cabin by the Creek
Leechee Zhang

Church of St. Primus - Slovenia — Church of St. Primus - Slovenia
Jeff Hirsch

Golden Breath of the Palouse — Golden Breath of the Palouse
Jacob (Jian) Xu

Winter Light at the Fishing Village — Winter Light at the Fishing Village
Leechee Zhang

2026 Image Of The Year - Monochrome Print

1st	Orangutan 4 bw	Cindy Lynch
HM	Ethereal serenity	Jacob (Jian) Xu
HM	Yosemite Falls No. 1	Mike Jeffries
HM	Medusa-Chinese Chrysanthemum	Yi Pan

Orangutan 4 bw — Orangutan 4 bw
Cindy Lynch

Ethereal serenity — Ethereal serenity
Jacob (Jian) Xu

Yosemite Falls No. 1 — Yosemite Falls No. 1
Mike Jeffries

Medusa-Chinese Chrysanthemum — Medusa-Chinese Chrysanthemum
Yi Pan