
Penticton photographer Meghann Fletcher’s photograph of a crimson-shafted Northern Flicker was published in a distinguished American chook magazine late final calendar year.
Picture Credit: SUBMITTED/ Meghann Fletcher



January 23, 2021 – 2:00 PM



A Penticton nature photographer claims she is thrilled soon after inserting in the major 100 in a national beginner photographer’s contest, in addition to finding her function posted in an American magazine.

Meghann Fletcher entered the West Coast Traveller’s 2020 Newbie Photographer of the calendar year contest and beat out practically 30,000 other entries.

“I felt incredibly honoured to have appear so much. There ended up six groups and only 16 wildlife and nature pics, one of which was my Twin Great Horned Owls, that ended up included in that prime 100,” Fletcher suggests.

Prior to getting into that contest, last February Fletcher loaded out an on line submission type with Birds & Blooms, an American-dependent journal devoted to vegetation, birds and other creatures.

The journal expenses by itself as the selection one fowl and back garden magazine in North The usa with a lot more than a single million subscribers.

Fletcher required to share a tale and photograph about a Northern Flicker berry finding in freshly fallen snow.

“On Sept. 3 final year, I acquired an e-mail from a Birds & Blooms editor who informed me they were possibly interested in working with the picture I had submitted,” Fletcher says.


She provided some details about the image, which had been taken at 1 of Penticton’s Okanagan River oxbows.

“The birds are very lively there, specially in winter. It is a place that’s expensive to my heart,” she suggests.

In November, the journal published a photograph essay entitled “15 of the Snowiest Birds At any time!”

Fletcher’s image and compose-up had been incorporated in the posting, which contained 18 pictures of winter season birds.

“I was so thrilled. Receiving released in Birds & Blooms was a huge intention for me that I am so satisfied to have printed,” Fletcher claims.

Fletcher’s was the only Canadian entry.

Her long term plans consist of obtaining posted in Canadian Geographic and she would like to have some of her nature photography incorporated in a e-book about Okanagan wildlife.

Fletcher claims hen photography has come to be her passion.

“You can’t question birds to pose a specific way or smile and say ‘cheese.’ I have the probability to convey to a story through my photos that captures a instant in time that will by no means transpire precisely the identical way yet again, and for me that is a thrill,” she states.

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