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Welcome! It's my pleasure to share the world through my lens!


I am happy to share my recently revamped website with new images and new galleries. Please click on Featured on the top Tab to view images by theme. Or just sit back, relax and enjoy the slideshow! Images are in chronological order, most recent first, on the slideshow and in the individual galleries. Just click to enlarge!

 

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Vicki 

 

 


About
Contact Info

Vicki Santello loves seeing the world mindfully through the art of photography. 

"it's not what you look at but what you see". Henry David Thoreau

 

Professional Memberships

  • North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA)
  • Professional Women Photographers (PWP)
  • Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA)
     

Awards

2022 WildArt Photographer of the Year

  • Gold Prize, Category Winner, WET, The Successful Hunt
  • Highly Commended, Category BEHAVIOUR, We Are Family!
  • Commended, Category, SPACE,  The Long March
  • Top 100, WET, 4 Different images: Tactical Assessment, The Zen of Snow, Face of the Future, Ice Palace
  • Top 100, SPACE, 2 Different Images ; Alone on the Ice, Cold Mountain Passage
  • Top 100, ABSTRACTS,  Concealment

2022 The Greatest Masaai Mara Photographer of the Year

  • April Monthly Finalist : The Lover's Quarrel
  • May Monthly Finalist : The Huntress

2022 Africa Geographic

  • Top 100, Startled Ostrich (aka The Pivotal Moment)

2021 North American Nature Photography (NANPA) Showcase

  • Top 250: Safety in the Creche - elephant seals in blizzard
  • Altered Reality Semi-Finalists: At The Waterhole and The Long Trek
  • Birds Semi-Finalists: The Alarm Cry, Stellar Flight, Frozen March, Royal Portrait, I See You!, Mom's Watchful Eye, Cloud Soaring, Flight in Pink, Rightful Place
  • Mammals:  The Successful Hunt, The Long Drink of Water, Lunch is Served, Spots on Ice, Battle of the Behemoths, The Predator Waits, By Momma's Side
  • Scapes: Winter Architecture, Foggy Valley, Golden Ridges, Fall is in the Air!, Standing Proud!

2020: Published in Africa Geographic,  Mom Says No!

2019 Nature's Best Photography National Parks Top 100 Finalist (awarded 2020 due to Covid)

  • The Strategic Hunter

2020 Pangolin Photography People's Choice Finalist

  • The Successful Hunt

2020 North American Nature Photography (NANPA) Showcase

  • Top 250: Tender Moments – Momma Leopard w/ Cubs
  • Altered Reality Semi-finalist: The Unfolding of Autumn - North Carolina
  • Macro/Micro/All Other Semi-finalist: Marching to His Own Drummer – Namaqua Chameleon
  • Mammals Semi-finalist: The Cycle of Life – Cheetah with Kill; Spotted Stealth - Cheetah
  • Scapes Semi-finalist: The Blessing of RAIN!! - Maasai Mara, Kenya

2019 Photo Tales coffee table book published by HPH Publishing - Johannesburg, S. Africa

  • Tender Moments (2020 N. America Nature’s Photography Association Top 250)
  • Deadly Embrace (Category Winner 2018 Nature’s Best Photography Africa)
  • Morning Mist 

2019 Gainesville Fine Art Association (GFAA) Art Exhibit at Oak Hammock

  • Award of Merit: Starry Starry Night

2019 National Geographic Photo of the Week April 26

  • It's a Big World Out There

2019 National Geographic Daily Dozen February 27

  • Mirror Image

2019 BBC Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest

  • Semi-finalist: Red Tide

2018 Nature's Best Photography Africa Competition

  • Category Winner Wild Cats of Africa Behavioural: A Deadly Embrace

2019 North American Nature Photography Associations (NANPA) Showcase

  • Top 250: Life on the Edge
  • Mammals Semi-finalist: A Pause in the Hunt; Night Time Forager
  • Scapes Semi-finalist: Icelandic Aurora; The Compliment of Complementary; Golden Beauty; Red Tide; Dunes Encroach on Pan of Dead Vlei; Aerial View of Cathedral Spires
  • Macro/Micro/All Other Semi-finalist: Morning Commute; The Bath

2018 BBC Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest

  • Semi-finalist: The Successful Hunt 

2018 Gainesville Fine Art Association (GFAA) Winter Show at Trinity United Methodist Church

  • Award of Merit: Peruvian Innocence  

2018 North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) Showcase Competition

  • Mammals Semi-Finalist: Over the Top; The Omega Wolf
  • Scapes Semi-Finalist: Golden Beauty, Sand Dunes

2017 Photographer's Forum Best of Photography 2017

  • Finalist: The Successful Hunt

2017 Nature's Best Photography Africa

  • Birds of Africa Portrait Semi-finalist: Look at me! Tawny Eagle
  • African Landscapes Semi-finalist: The Compliment of Complementary Colors

2017 Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA) Living Creatures Exhibit

  • Award of Merit: Plowing Through

2017 North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) Showcase Competition

  • Mammals Semi-Finalist: African Wild Dog on Alert
  • Birds Semi-Finalist: Tawny Eagle Opens Wide; Stellar Eagle Portrait; The New Boss (Stellar Eagles and Raven); Red Morph on a Mission

2016 Florida Wildlife Federation (FWF) Photo Contest 

  • Winner for Waterscape Category: Ospreys at Dawn

Exhibits

2022 : Santa Fe College Art Gallery, multi-artist exhibit: Nature's Beauty

2017-2020: Artist in Residence: Francesca's Trattoria, Gainesville, FL
2019: GFAA Winter Showcase, Gainesville, FL
2019: GFAA Art Exhibit at Oak Hammock, Gainesville, FL
2019: GFAA Member's Best at the Cofrin Gallery, Oak Hall School, Gainesville, FL
2019: PWP Member Slideshow Showcase
2019: GFAA Photography & Digital Art Exhibit, Gainesville, FL
2019: Solo Exhibit at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2019: GFAA Fins, Feathers, Fur Exhibit, Gainesville, FL
2019: Harn Museum of Art, Art of Inquiry Exhibit, Gainesville, FL
2019: SIMED, Gainesville, FL
2018: GFAA Markey Wealth Management Exhibit, Gainesville, FL
2018: GFAA Photography & Digital Art Exhibit, Gainesville, FL
2018: Francesca's Trattoria Solo Exhibit, Gainesville, FL
2018: GFAA Winter Show at Trinity United Methodist Church
2018: SIMED, Gainesville, FL
2017: GFAA Gallery Member's Showcase
2017: SIMED, Gainesville, FL
2017: Sweetberries, Gainesville, FL
2017: GFAA Gallery Living Creatures Exhibit
2017: Pura Cuba, Oak Hammock, Gainesville, FL