Outdoor Photography Contest

Congratulations to the People's Choice Award Winner, Kayla Seitz!  

Thank you  to everyone who submitted photos to the 2011 Outdoor Recreation Photo Contest.  View the Winners and the People's Choice Awards selection on the slideshows page under Photo Contest Winners. 

2012 Outdoor Photography Contest Information

The Outdoor Photography Contest and Exhibit is annually sponsored by the Outdoor Recreation Center. The contest is open to amateur photographers.

Entries accepted: February 1st, 2012 - March 30th, 2012

Judging Criteria
The Outdoor Photography Contest aims to highlight human or naturally powered outdoor recreation. The photographs are judged by presentation and appropriateness of category, as well as by technical skill with the camera and visual framing of subject. Leave No Trace principles will also be considered. The Contest Organizers reserve the right to refuse entries that do not meet these criteria. All photographs must be entered in a specific category.

The categories are as follows:

• Landscape: Photographs of large-scale scenes of nature as one might see while participating in human/natural powered outdoor recreational activities. No man-made structures.
• Action Adventure: Photographs of people participating in human/natural powered outdoor recreational activities.
• Wildlife & Still-Life: Photographs of wild animals in natural settings or close-up/isolated photographs of small-scale plants or natural scenes in natural surroundings as one might see while participating in outdoor recreational activities.
• Cultural: This category includes adventure travel photographs that illustrate cultural significance of another society. This category can also include domestic photographs that picture wilderness settings with historically or culturally significant structures.
• New Category for Spring 2012 Leadership: This category includes YOUR definition of leadership through a photograph.  It could be a flock of geese flying in a V, leading a climb with your friends, or whatever you think leadership is.  The point of this category is to communicate your idea of leadership through the art of
  photography.