2025 Arizona Wildlife Views Photo Contest
2024 Winning Photograph by Randi Najac
Do you want to see your photo on the cover of Arizona Wildlife Views?
Do you have a knack for capturing great photos of wildlife?
Then you won’t want to miss the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s
19th Annual Wildlife Photo Contest.
One best in show and 11 winners will be showcased in the 2026 calendar, which is published as part of the November-December 2025 issue of Arizona Wildlife Views. The best-in-show photo is published on the cover of the issue and as one of the photos representing a month. Winning photos may also appear in future issues of Arizona Highways magazine.
All photos must depict wildlife native to and found in Arizona, and all photos must have been taken in Arizona settings. Entrants are responsible for complying with the Official Rules; not doing so may result in disqualification.
The submission deadline is 5 p.m. MST on August 8, 2025.
Please view OFFICIAL RULES before submitting entries.
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Photo by Charlene schoen
Location: Oak Creek at Indian Gardens
Photo by Scott Pirtle
A Great Blue Heron moves ever so stealthily from the shadows into the early morning sunlight, never breaking it's gaze from the small fish soon to become it's breakfast.
Location: Gilbert Riparian Preserve
Photo by Frank Macias
Finding shade in the summer heat.
Location: Gila Bend Mtns
Photo by Karen Shaw
A Black-crowned Night Heron looks for a fish from his rocky perch at Watson Lake.
Location: Watson Lake.
Photo by Charles Jones
Looking for an early morning breakfast. Just before he touched the water in search of the fish.
Location: Goldwater Lake, Prescott, AZ
Photo by Charles Jones
A hungry Heron early in the morning and found it's prey.
Location: Goldwater Lake, Prescott, AZ
Photo by Lance Lofgren
A curious young Bighorn Sheep Ram observing hikers in the Superstiton Wilderness.
Location: Superstition Wilderness, Tonto National Forest
Photo by Matt Heninger
Owl perched in neighborhood tree.
Location: Gilbert Arizona
Photo by Clayton Perry
Two Rams at point of impact
Location: Lower Salt River
Photo by Clayton D Lang
Looking for lunch
Location: Apache Lake
Photo by Clayton D Lang
Looking out for Willy-E
Location: Cottonwood
Photo by Matt Heninger
A blue heron soaring over Saguaro Lake
Location: Saguaro Lake