Standard Definitions of NIHCC Competition Topics
Nature
Pictures that portray different kinds of various aspects of natural plant and animal life in a living state, that illustrate the natural features of land and sea or that reveal certain natural phenomena, such as cloud formations, light refractions (sunsets, auroras, etc.), precipitation, frost, fire, but which do not show the hand of man, such as buildings, fences, beer cans, etc. Domestic plants or animals may be included provided they do not show the hand of man.
