About
Carolina is a 23 year old wildlife photographer living outside of Philadelphia, PA. Carolina began taking photos with her mom's point-and-shoot camera when she was ten. She took photos occasionally afterwards until she began taking photos with a DSLR around the beginning of the 2015 year.
2023 update: diagnosed with fibromyalgia, currently working part time utilizing her creativity while figuring out life with chronic pain.
2024: Nature’s Best Youth Ambassador! https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/62oM9rlnuOE3T
Awards and Recognitions
Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice Awards Highly Honored (also exhibited in the Jonny Morris Wildlife Wonders Museum)
Bird Photographer of the Year Attention to Detail Honorable Mention (2019)
National Geographic Your Shot (1 of 16 selected) “Your Best Photos of the Week, March 29, 2019”
Bird Photographer of the Year Shortlist (2 images, 2019)
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Semi-Finalist (2019)
National Geographic Your Shot Daily Dozen June 20, 2018
Audubon Photography Awards Top 100 (4 images, 2018)
Wildspeak 2017 Speaker with the Kid’s Conservation Photography Workshop (series of Human; Nature from Ecuador)
Nature's Best Photography Youth Highly Honored (2017)
Audubon Photography Awards Top 100 (4 images, 2017)
Young Bird Photographer of the Year Shortlist (2017)
Youth Outdoor Photographer of the Year Book Featured Photographer (2017)
Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year Semi-Finalist (4 images, 2017)
Audubon Photography Awards Youth Winner (2016, featured in a traveling exhibit as well as a year long exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural Sciences)
NANPA High School Scholarships Recipient (2016)
National Geographic Student Photo Contest Finalist (2016)
Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice Awards Semi-finalist (4 images, 2016)
Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year Semi-Finalist (3 images, 2016)
Publications
Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice Awards Fall/Winter 2019
Bird Photographer of The Year Portfolio (2019)
Audubon Gala 2019 Journal
Audubon Behind the Shot: “How a Photographer Snuck Under the Wing of a Loon Parent” (2019)
Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice Awards Fall/Winter 2017
Audubon Magazine (May/June 2016 Issue): Photography Awards Issue
Great Smoky Mountains Journal of Photography (Issue 7 Fall 2016)
Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice Awards Fall/Winter 2016
Outdoor Photographer of the Year Portfolio II