Submit Your Favorite Nature Pics

Are you a budding nature photographer with plenty of flower close-ups, fleeting deer, and delicious landscapes in your images folder? Now’s your chance to get some click cred with those elegant eco shots, via The Nature Conservancy’s 2009 Photo Contest.

The NC is looking for beautiful nature photography that represents the diversity of life on earth. Original digital images of the planet’s lands, waters, plants, animals and people in nature are all eligible. But they’re especially interested in images that showcase the wide range of natural habitats, including all types of forests, grasslands, lakes and rivers, deserts and arid lands, rainforests, marine habitats and coral reefs.

The winner's image will be printed in the 2011 Nature Conservancy calendar, which reaches over 2 million homes nationwide. It will also be featured on the organization’s website, which gets 3 million visitors annually. That's no small potatoes when it comes to exposure for your work.

The deadline is September 30, so this weekend would be a perfect time to get out into the wilds and scope your subject. Nature's splendor awaits!

Photo via The Nature Conservancy.