Grand Prize Winner/Species: red-shouldered hawk, by Carol Graham Fryer

“He hung like a moth for a while,” says Carol Graham Fryer, of the raptor she shot. “He struggled and struggled to free himself from the moss. I was just trained on him, taking pictures. Then he was suddenly able to take off.” Though Fryer takes photographs around the world, she ventured only as far as her Jacksonville backyard to get this beauty. “I can see that tree from my kitchen window,” says the 68-year-old retired singer. “He was just sitting there, as pretty as you please.”