HOW TO ENTER

Open to professional and amateur photographers from any country worldwide shooting in all forms of photography using traditional or digital methods.

Professional category is for photographers whose occupation and income is made as a photographer. The Amateur category is for photographers who do not make their main income from photography.

Create your online Portfolio, upload your images and pay entry fees. Your entry is submitted when entry fees are paid. You will receive an entry confirmation email upon payment of entry fees.

All entries must be received by the Closing Deadline - midnight (PST) Friday, September 13, 2024. No entries will be accepted after this date.

Entry fees are $35 (Professional) or $30 (Amateur) for a single image entry. Entry fees are non-refundable.

The early bird deadline offers a discount on entry fees. Deadlines are subject to change and may be extended.

You can submit 2 single entries for the price of 1 with the "2 for 1" Special - ends May 24th.
You can submit 5 or 10 single entries with the "Multi-Pack" specials - ends July 19th.
To pre-order specials - upload placeholder images and pay. Placeholder images to be replaced before the Closing Deadline.
Entry fees are automatically calculated using the best discount at time of payment, upload all entries before paying entry fees. Entries do not have to be in same category. Specials can be used multiple times.

Members of photography trade groups, associations, societies and clubs receive an extra 10% discount off entry fees. To qualify, click link at checkout and input your group's name.

You can pay by visa, mastercard, amex or paypal. All payments are processed in USD currency.

You earn 10% Rewards on entry fees. Rewards are added to your Portfolio at the opening of current year. Rewards can be used to pay entry fees.

There is no limit to the number of images you can submit.

Each image can only be submitted into one category.

Published and unpublished work is accepted.

Winning and nominated images cannot be entered again.

There are no restrictions on the date of photograph.

Copyright remains with the owner at all times. Submitted images may be used to promote the awards. The photographer’s name will always be credited with an image. (See usage).

Your personal information remains private at all times. Only your name, country, biography and website are shown publicly on the website. We respect your privacy and will never sell your data to third parties.

Digital images must be 2400 pixels max. longest side, 120 ppi, jpeg format, sRGB. Files should be named lastname-firstname_title.jpg (no accented characters in the filename).

We recommend submitting digital files. Prints are accepted and will be digitized and uploaded to your Portfolio. Books are not accepted. You can mail a CD of digital files. Prints and CDs will not be returned.

Images must not have any embedded marks, logos, names or borders.

Digitally manipulated images are accepted.

AI created images are not accepted.

You can replace any image by clicking on the image (give the new image a different filename). Entries where entry fees have been paid cannot be deleted, they can only be replaced.

You can change the title, caption or category by clicking on the image.

The caption is for anything noteworthy about the photograph, such as when, where or why it was taken, subject, context, etc.

Jury members donate their time to the awards. Lobbying and unsolicited contact to the judges invariably leads to their withdrawing from the panel. This is a huge loss to both the awards and participating photographers. Lobbying and contacting jury members is instant disqualification from the awards.

Winners and nominees will be announced at the live online Photoshow, December 7, 2024.

Prepare an Acceptance Speech to be posted on the website.