Audubon Community Nature Center 2025 Nature Photography Contest
Your nature photo could win you $200 and be seen by thousands!
- Deadline: 30 June 2025
- Entry fee: $15/photo
- Website: https://www.gogophotocontest.com/acncphotocontest2025
Audubon Community Nature Center's 2025 Nature Photography Contest gives photographers – young and old, amateur and professional – an opportunity to communicate our shared passion so others may be inspired to become stewards of the natural world.
This year's categories of Birds, Waterscapes, and Single Blooms are destined to inspire: Birds because they are incredible creatures that come in a wide variety of shapes, colors, and sizes; Waterscapes because from large expansive oceans, to rocky stream beds, rushing rivers, and lovely lakes, the earth is full of amazing views that include water; and Single Blooms because flowers are so incredibly delicate and detailed.
Join us to share the beauty you have found in nature and to receive recognition for your work!
Judges will choose a Youth (ages 8 to 18) and an Adult (age 19 and older) winner in the categories of Birds, Waterscapes and Single Blooms. Each of those six winners will receive a $200 cash prize. Three Youth and three Adult Finalists will also be named in each category.
Additional $200 cash prizes will be awarded to the Adult and Youth photos receiving the most Community Choice votes online, and three each will receive honorable mentions. A photo could receive both the Community Choice and a judged award.
Prizes:
- Cash Prizes: $200 each for Adult and Youth winners in each of four categories: Birds, Waterscapes, Single Blooms, and Community Choice.
- Winners and Finalists will be displayed on the contest website.
- Winners will be named in a news release that is widely distributed, including to their local media when known.
- Winning judged photographs will be printed and exhibited in the Nature Center.
Eligibility:
This contest is open to photographers from around the world ages eight and older. There is a $15 entry fee for each photo entered into the contest. Contestants must have access to a valid email address for communication with contest officials. Submitted photos must be original works with the focus on nature. Human-made objects should be incidental in the photograph, not the main focus. Photos of animals must be wild, not of animals in zoos or other forms of containment. Predators in photos cannot be baited to draw them in. This includes using prey animals such as mice to attract owls and other predators. Photos near bird feeders can be used. Submitted photos must be taken by a camera or phone. Winning submissions will have their files checked for device metadata. Photos will be disqualified if metadata cannot be provided. (Phones and cameras automatically record metadata and most photos have metadata included.) Submitted photos cannot be significantly altered in photoshop. Photos may have basic lighting and cropping adjusted, but not be altered with new backgrounds or other heavily edited properties. Files must be in high resolution JPG format. Any aspect ratio is acceptable, but please size the file so that the longest dimension is 1500 pixels and set the quality to “high.” Please set your phone to the highest possible resolution before taking a photo to submit to the contest. Photos must be submitted in the correct category to be judged for that category and win a prize. Photos must be submitted online via this website by the contest deadline and will not be accepted in any other form. Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) staff, board members, and their family members are welcome to submit photos, but they are ineligible to receive judged prizes. ACNC staff, board members, and their family members are eligible to receive the Community Choice award.
Copyrights & Usage Rights:
The photographer retains full copyright to their images. Participation in the contest gives Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) permission to use the photographs without compensation on the contest website as well as on other ACNC websites and in news releases, which may appear in print or on third party websites to publicize the contest, as well as other ACNC activities. ACNC will always include the photographer's name when using a photograph for any purpose.