PHOTOGRAPHY RECOGNITION

Earth Day – 2026: Showcased at Honoring the Earth Day

Mega – 2026: Showcased at Mega 2926

2026 Monochromica Publication,

• “Carrie Furnace” & “Blast Furnace” photographs published.
• http://monochromica.com/ProofsIssue007-t7c/SantiniRon.pdf

Faces 2026, Group Exhibition, Exhibizone Magazine

• “Here’s Looking at You”
• Online Catalogue

October 2025 Publication of “Artistonish”, Issue 83 photo published:

• Inside Carrie Furnace
• 2025 Iredell Photography Club Open Art Show

2025 Iredell Photography Club Christmas Party

• Member’s Choice Award
• “The Setting Sun of the Dolomites”

2025 Iredell Photography Club Open Art Show

• “Half-Time”
• “Grandfather Mountain”
  • Honorable Mention

2024 Iredell Photography Club Competition

• “Carrie Furnace”
  • 3^rd Place

Carolinas Nature Photographers Association

March 2023: 2022 Member’s Choice Awards

• Tier 1: Landscape Category
  • First Place
  • “After the Storm” Badlands, SD

January 2023: 2022 North American Nature Photographers Association

• Landscape Category
  • Judge’s Choice Award
  • “After the Storm” Badlands, SD

Summer 2022 Editon “Camera in the Wild,” CNPA published article

• The Extreme Environments of Death Valley

2021 Member’s Choice Awards

• Tier 1: Landscapes Category
  • Honorable Mention:
    • “Great Sand Dunes”

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery December 2020

• Nature Art Exhibition
  • Photography & Digital Category: Special Merit Award
  • “Monument Valley”
  • https://www.lightspacetime.art/nature-art-exhibition-2020-photography-digital-category/

View Bug November 2020

• Fall Award 2020
  • “Golden Glow”
  • https://www.viewbug.com/user/fallaward20Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery June 2020

• 10^th Annual SeaScapes Online Art Exhibition
  • 1^st Place – “Morning Reflections”
  • http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/880-10th-annual-%E2%80%9Cseascapes%E2%80%9D-2020-art-exhibition-winning-artists-announ

ViewBug.com March 2020

• Elite in Animals Award
  • https://www.viewbug.com/photo/79852863?type=myaward&fbclid=IwAR0ShskKLUB8NAdGqDyETghmuVnQQOPmz39hXn9FdiagCOEG8hyrNM4sxno

ViewBug.com January 2020

• Ranked in the Top 10% most popular photographers in 2019

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery July 2019 Primary Colors Art Exhibition

• “Clivia”
• Special Merit Award

Landscape Photography Magazine Featured Photograph, October, 2019

https://landscapephotographymagazine.com/2019/bannf-canadian-rockies-by-ronald-santini/?fbclid=IwAR18R-ZN23ggAZWzwwzUgopa-HIM1dg6Jb19H84dq6IWtusaP4VQ_g1LrHM

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery June 2019 Landscapes Art Exhibition

• “After the Storm”
• 8^th Place

Carolinas Nature Photography Association

• 2019 Annual Meeting
• Member Choice Award
• 3^rd Place Landscapes

PDN - Photo District News Magazine

• 2018 World in Focus Travel Photography Competition
• 1^st Place – Wildlife/Insects
• Link: http://www.shutterloveonline.com/contest_galleries/worldinfocus/2018/#main

2018 Photo Hall of Fame - Viewbug.com

• Early Morning Fog over Lake Moraine

 

 

 

2018 37^th Glennie Nature Salon International Photography Competition

• Merit Award: Landscape-Mountain Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery 2018 Landscapes Art Exhibition
• 1^st Place - Photography Category
• 2^nd Place - Overall Winning Artists Category
• The gallery received 577 entries from 29 different American states and from 26 different countries.
• Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wle0az8wysk&ab_channel=LightSpace%26TimeOnlineArtGallery
• Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL32-5SwFnU&ab_channel=LightSpace%26TimeOnlineArtGallery

15th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition & Exhibition 2018

• Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University
• Two Finalist Photographs - 1500 images submitted
• Link: https://www.appmtnphotocomp.org/galleries/15th-annual-finalists/

Circle Foundation for the Arts

• 2017 Photographer of the Year – Honorable Mention

North American Nature Photographers Association Showcase 2017

• NANPA Expressions Publication
• Top 100 Award
• 3350 images submitted

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery Open 2106 Art Exhibition

• 1st Place – Photography Category
• 2nd Place – Overall Winning Artists Category

Colors of Humanity Art Gallery Juried Competition

• Landscapes 2016 Best of Show
• Link: https://www.colorsofhumanityartgallery.com/Landscapes-2016/Landscapes-2016-Show/n-ZGcfhX

Rough Guides Travel Publisher

• Selected Lake Moraine at Sunrise Photograph as one of the 15 Awesome Images of Canada for 2016

Mooresville Arts Guild 2016 Photography exhibit

• 1^st Place – Landscape
• 2^nd Place – Landscape
• 1^st Place – Macro

Carolina's Nature Photographers Association

• Members Choice Award 2016
• Honorable Mention Tier 2 Landscapes 

Arts Council of Lincoln County

• 2014 ACLC photo competition
• Best of Show Award
• 1^st Place – abstract
• 3^rd Place – Abstract
• 1^st Place Nature
• Elephant – Riverfront Zoo, Columbia, SC

2013 Arts Council of Lincoln County Photo Competition

• Best of Show Award

 

Western North Carolina Magazine

• One of 16 images selected for the people’s choice award in the images of Western North Carolina photography contest 2016
• Link: https://wncmagazine.com/images-western-north-carolina-1

Lake Norman Currents

• October 2021 Edition
  • Featured photograph of Clutch Studios
• December 2015 Edition
  • Featured photograph of Crystal Sain, rugby player