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Color in Nature
![Color in Nature](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Julie-Larsen-Maher-1940-Himalayan-Monal-BZ-01-05-12-977x650.jpg)
Assignment Open From
Aug 26 - Sep 25, 2014
The Himalayan monal is striking. All the more so on its home turf, high in the mountains of Asia, against a backdrop of rock and snow. “Once seen,” wrote WCS’s founding ornithologist William Beebe, “it is never forgotten.” Have you seen a similarly stunning color combination? Send us the best burst you can find in nature, be it from your backyard or the back of a Himalayan pheasant.
Our editorial team will choose the best submissions based on appeal, composition, originality, and technical quality. A group of chosen shots for this assignment will be posted on this page and one will even be featured.
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![Cathleen Shattuck](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/cathleen_shattuckseastar_vashonisland_wa_2011.jpg)
Equal armed sea star, Dolphin Point, Vashon Island, Washington.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Kathleen Rice](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/006.jpg)
Helmeted guineafowl, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Kathleen Rice](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/img_7349a.jpg)
Red-throated bee-eaters, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.
Album | Color in Nature |
![M.P. Tien](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/img_3863.jpg)
A cluster of colorful succulents at Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden in California.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Larry H. Thompson](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/larry_thompson_honduran_emerald_02_21_10.jpg)
Honduran emerald hummingbird is considered one of the most endangered birds in Central America.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Lindsey Walters](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/lindseywalterssharpnosepuffer091614.jpg)
A sharp nose puffer, Cape Fear Ledge exhibit at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Gail J. Worth](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/peacock12314.jpg)
Peacock courting peahens, Palos Verdes Peninsula, California.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Dustin Smith](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/dustin_smith_blue_poison_arrow_frog_zm.jpg)
The blue poison arrow frog has bright warning colors. Zoo Miami.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Lynda Geller](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/lubber_grasshopper.jpg)
Lubber grasshoppers, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Diane Scozzafava](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/diane_scozzafava_colorful_bird_6_25_2013.jpeg.jpg)
Beautifully colored bird in butterfly museum.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Barbara Moll](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/clownfish_0013a.jpg)
Clownfish, Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Valeria Falabella](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/valeria_falabella_king_penguins_12_27_2008.jpg)
King penguins, Gold Harvour, Islas Goergias del Sur.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Jonathan Lavan](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/lavan_greenbee_2009.jpg)
Native wildflowers attract a real beauty in the suburbs outside Chicago.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Rishi Kumar](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/rishi_kumar_flying_rainbow_17.8.14.jpg)
Peacock, Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur, Rajasthan.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/tree_frog_5.jpg)
Red-eyed tree frog, La Fortuna, Costa Rica.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Kimberly Spiegel](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/img_5801.jpg)
Wildflower meadow, Norfolk Botanical Garden, Virginia.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Prasenjeet Yadav](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/prasenjeetyadav_prayingmantis.jpg)
Praying mantis, Bangalore, Karnataka , India.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Geoff Gallice](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/geoff_gallice_bluecrowned_motmot_sept._2012.jpg)
Blue-crowned motmot builds its burrow in the cliffs of Los Amigos Conservation Concession, Madre de Dios, Peru.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Ethan Staats](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/ethan.staats_libellula.auripennis.richmond.va_7.20.2014.jpg)
Golden-winged skimmer. Breeding males of this species are a vivid red.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Deborah Caponigro](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/dscf2153.jpg)
Tulip Explosion at Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Charles Cunningham](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/sally_lightfoot_crab.jpg)
Sally Lightfoot crab on the shoreline of the Galapagos.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Jennifer Kepler](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/jennifer_kepler_081114_easten_tiger_swallowtail_brooklyn_ny.jpg)
Field of gold with wildflowers and Eastern tiger swallowtail.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Luke Mackin](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/lukemackintitanarumapril2013.jpg)
Titan arum in bloom near the village of Air Putih, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Sara Ascalon](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/sara_ascalon__peacock_may_2_2014.jpg)
A peacock with plumage that appears to be studded with living jewels.
Album | Color in Nature |
![David DesRochers](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/daviddesrochers_ocellatedturkey_4.1.2011.jpg)
Breeding season for the ocellated turkeys in Belize.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Amalia Pinkusfeld Medeiros Bastos](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/amaliabastosphotographyorangewingedamazonparrot030313.jpg)
Orange-winged Amazon parrot feathers show fantastic colors.
Album | Color in Nature |
![Mary Temple](https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/grand-media/image/lilacbreasted_roller_2.jpg)
The lilac-breasted roller might just be one of the earth's most beautiful creatures.
Album | Color in Nature |