Tucson photographer Rhonda Spencer took first place in a wildlife photo contest co-sponsored by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and Arizona Highways magazine.
Spencerβs image, selected from more than 2,000 entries, shows two lowland leopard frogs.
Her photo and other top images from the contest are being published in a wildlife calendar in the November-December 2015 issue of Arizona Wildlife Views magazine.
A news release from the Game and Fish Department noted this description of Spencerβs photo by Jeff Kida, photo editor of Arizona Highways: βAt first glance, the composition appears clean and simple: a frog and its refection, with a background that is mostly out of focus. Once you take a closer look, though, the blurred background turns out to be another frog, and itβs facing the opposite direction. That yin-yang makes this much more fun and involving.β
