Our annual Give Thanks for Nature Photo Contest kicked off on Friday, November 26 when community members were encouraged to #OptOutside.
Professional and amateur photographers alike are encouraged to take their best shot of all that the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve and Woodfield Reservation have to offer.
Submit your favorite photo for a chance to win prizes provided by REI, and to participate in our annual photo exhibition at Small World Coffee!
First Prize: $100 REI gift card
Second Prize: $50 REI gift card
Third Prize: $25 REI gift card
Young photographers, aged 16 and under, are encouraged to enter for a chance to win a gift card to a local business!
Ages 11 to 16: $25 gift card to JaZams
SUBMISSION RULES: Photographs must be taken in the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve or the Woodfield Reservation between November 26, 2021, and March 31, 2022. You may submit a maximum of ONE PHOTOGRAPH. File must be in 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.”
Filename MUST include the photographer's name and the name of image. For example: if your name is Joe Smith and you are submitting a photo of an oak tree, you might name your file: JoeSmith-Oak tree.jpg. DO NOT send a file with your camera's default filename.
In order to ensure anonymous judging, please do not include any signatures or watermarks on the photo that would reveal the name of the photographer.
Entries must be submitted by midnight on March 31, 2022, via email to photos@fopos.org, with “2021 Photo Contest” in the subject line. Please include your Instagram handle if you have one.
Winners will be contacted by April 30, 2022.
View the 2020 photo contest winners here.
COPYRIGHT: The photographer retains full copyright to his or her images. However, with participation in the contest each contestant agrees to give Friends of Princeton Open Space permission to use the photographs without compensation on the website, in news releases, or in promotional print material, for the purpose of publicizing the contest or the FOPOS organization in general. Friends of Princeton Open Space will always include the photographer's name when using a photograph for any purpose.
A special thanks to REI for their continued support of this contest by donating prizes for contest winners.
For questions, please contact photos@fopos.org.