FIRST PRIZE 
Animals 
Townsend Weeks 
A grant from the College of Marine 
Studies at the University of 
Delaware enabled marine biologist 
Townsend Weeks and a colleague to 
spend the summer of 1977 taking 
photographs at Cape Henlopen, on 
the Delaware coast. While in Canary 
Creek Marsh, Weeks noticed a 
spider moving rapidly on an Iva 
plant and managed to take two 
pictures, this one with the flash held 
slightly behind the leaf. Seconds 
later, the spider was gone. Weeks 
now lives in Northvale, New Jersey, 
and teaches general and field 
ecology at Ramapo College. 
FIRST PRIZE (Tied) 
Plants and Their Environment 
Keith Axelson 
Five years ago, Keith Axelson was 
spending his weekends at a ranch in 
San Luis Obispo County, California, 
studying the nesting behavior of 
golden eagles. One hazy spring day, 
when an eagle landed down below 
him, Axelson’ s attention was drawn 
to a mule deer, and he managed to 
grab a camera from his blind in time 
to snap its picture. A California live 
oak dominates the landscape. 
Axelson, a free-lance graphic 
designer and photographer, lives in 
Los Angeles. 
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