View Photo Contest Submissions & Winners
We are no longer accepting entries into the photo contest. Check out this year's submissions and winning photos online on the slideshows page. Winning photos will also be on display in the Student Recreation Center soon!
Thanks to the WSU Photography Club for all of your help with judging and preparing the photo displays!
2009 Outdoor Photography Contest Information
The Outdoor Photography Contest and Exhibit is annually sponsored by the Outdoor Recreation Center and Student Involvement. The contest is open to amateur photographers.
Entries accepted: January 27 - March 27
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.
- Special Focus - Prove or Disprove Global Warming: Photographs in this category must be wilderness or human/natural powered outdoor recreation based and reflect the impact (or not) of global warming.
