17TH ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST DETAILS

Here are the 17 winners in the Washington Gardener Magazine 17th Annual Photo Contest. More than 200 photos were submitted in this year’s contest from 23 entrants. As usual, the quality of entries was high and our judge had an especially difficult time winnowing the images down to the best of the best! It was great to see several first-time entrants place highly. Many of these photos are of the photographers’ own home gardens, while the majority of the rest of the images were taken at public gardens in our region.

Congratulations to the 2023 DC Garden Photo Contest winners and thank you to all who entered.

Where To See The Photos At Their Full Quality

Winning images will be displayed during the Washington Gardener Seed Exchanges and appear in a local photo exhibit this summer at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, VA. We will announce the exact show dates this spring.

Thank You To Our Judge

Elizabeth Olson, certified photography judge with the Maryland Association of Agricultural Fairs & Shows (MAAFS).

THANK YOU TO OUR 2023 PRIZE SPONSORS

• Capital Photography Center, LLC

• Fiskars Tools

Additional prizes supplied by Washington Gardener Magazine

Grand Prize Winner (on the cover)

Jeanne Markowski

“Antoinette Tulip”

Location: Photographer’s home garden in Ellicott City, MD

“In the fall, I plant unique spring bulbs for deck containers,” said Markowski. Taken using a Canon R6, EF100mm macro, natural light, ISO 2000 100 mm f/5.6 1/160 sec. Markowski is an amateur photographer with nine years’ experience.