This image is one of 5 that won a Silver Medal award for Nature Landscape Series in the Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) in 2011.

This image was also part of a series of 12 photographs that received an Honorable Mention Award in the Nature Portfolio category of The Pollux Awards from the World Photography Gala Awards in London. The contest received 18,912 entries from 65 countries. It was juried by Phillip Brookman, Chief Curator and Head of Research at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.