UM student honored for Iceland bird photo

ORONO – A University of Maine graduate student has won runner-up honors in an international conservation and nature photography competition for his photograph of a bird.

Dane Wojicki of Amherst, N.H., was honored in the student category of the International Conservation Photography Awards’ 2008 competition.

There were more than 1,000 entries to the biennial competition. Wojcicki was one of two student award winners this year.

Wojcicki is working toward a Master of Arts degree in new media with a focus on documentary photography and videography of natural history and science. He took the photograph of a bird, a juvenile dunlin, while on a UMaine phytoplankton research cruise off the coast of Iceland.

The competition includes an online exhibit, a six-week show at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, and publication in a photography magazine.

Wojcicki’s photograph may be seen at icpawards.com.