6th Annual Photo Contest • January 29, 2024 • • Rows of mature pecan trees border a road in Arkansas. Their dark green canopies stretch across the road forming an arch. A ground-up view of a sunset during harvest. A lightning storm lights up a dormant pecan orchard on a cloudy day. A developing kernel inside its shuck is held up to the camera, showing the almost completely mature nut. Two men work on a broken down tractor. Inshell pecans travel up a sorting machine. Rigel Farm in San Pedro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Two inshell pecans with dried shucks on the end of a thin branch. Rigel Farm in San Pedro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A mummified frog on an inshell pecan. A coyote stands between tree rows at a pecan orchard. A squirrel runs jumps from a low-hanging pecan branch with two green shucks in its mouth. Pecans on the ground during harvest. Pecan trees in late fall. Two glass jars filled with pecan kernels. Cracked shells and pecans sit in front of the jars. Catkins and pecan flowers blossom in spring. A large tree cloaked in fog grows behind a row of young pecan trees. The sun sets in the far background of a lone pecan tree. The setting sun casts the sky in oranges and yellows like a fire. Sunlight shines through the tip of a bright green leaf. A little boy and his dad hold hands and walk through a native pecan grove at dusk. A young boy plants a pecan tree. A farmer drives a tractor with a red harvester attached to the back by a native pecan tree next to a pond. The harvester spits out debris and pops as it goes. Two children make "snow angels" on a tarp covered in pecans during harvest. A white dog barks up at a black bear as it walks across a branch in a dormant pecan tree. A pecan harvester picks up native nuts in a grove. A pecan in full shucksplit during harvest. A man holds out pecan kernels at his hand-cracking station in his pecan orchard. Mature inshell pecans with dried shucks hang from a branch. A large bird flies over a young pecan orchard as sheep graze between the trees. « ‹ of 2 › »