(includes contest series: ‘Weekly Wednesdays’!)
This is where you’ll find the shorter photo challenges, typically one week long (see “Photo Contests” tab for the 2012 ‘Instagram Alphabetography A-Z’ contest). The short time period puts the pressure on, which can boost your creativity. And be sure to check out the 2012 Winners Showcase & PhoozL Points and the 2013 Winners Showcase & PhoozL Points scoreboards. The more you participate, the more chances you have of moving up the rankings!
SEE BOXES BELOW: Weekly Wednesdays! A new theme each week + 2-week Photo Hunts. Showing both 2012 and new 2013 contests together below with new themes always coming or being planned!
SEE BELOW: At bottom are the longer Photo Assignments (only 2 showing), which are fanciful photo challenges modeled on traditional assignments that art directors, editor, and publishers have always given photographers. These are more sporadic.
The Elements - Air
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Continuing our series of the four classic Elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire... this week is Part III: AIR. What does Air mean to you? Show us!
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Architecture Nights
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
If Architecture can be defined generally as buildings and other physical structures, and if we define Night here as between sunset and sunrise, then show us your best Architecture Nights images!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
B&W - Curves
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Curves can be smooth and sensual, or icily perfect. Curves can make you smile. Show us your best curvy B&W images—what comes to mind when you think of Curves?
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
The Elements - Water
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Continuing our series of the four classic \"elements\": Earth, Water, Air, and Fire... this week is Part II: Water. What does “Water” mean to you? Show us!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Trio
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Trio... three of anything, either showing similarity or harmony, or contrast or opposition. Show us your best triple threats, your best threesomes.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Small Is Beautiful
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
What are your most interesting up-close or macro shots? The views that invited you to explore the beauty of a whole new (small) world?
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
The Elements - Earth
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
The four Classic Elements are: Earth, Water, Air,
and Fire. We are starting here with Earth. What
does it mean to you? Show us!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Foodtography
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Home-cooked meals, dining out, fast food, studio shots... all are fair game for this contest about food (focus on food, not drinks). And the bonus is that you can eat the subject!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Color Blind
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
The traditional black-and-white (B&W) photo. Show us your best monochrome (grayscale) images that focus on composition, tone, and form. No selective color or color tints; just B&W like the good old days.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Spring Fever
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
To mark the change of seasons, let us celebrate the spring equinox (North Hemisphere) with your visions and interpretations of spring’s best qualities: rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, and regrowth. It is spring!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Bending Reality
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
We leave reality behind this week for an excursion to a place where Surrealism meets Abstraction, and Photorealism is left behind to wander the corridors of your creativity.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Me, Myself & I
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
This week\'s theme is YOU. Show us some or all of your physical being (tastefully, of course!). Self-portraits, close-ups, reflections, fleeting impressions... Show us U!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
A Still Life
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
This week’s theme is ‘A Still Life,’ which basically means: any intentional grouping or depiction of inanimate objects. Could be of single or multiple subjects. We’re leaving this wide open to your interpretation, but remember: composition is important.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Circles
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
This week\'s theme is \"Circles\" - anything that contains circular forms OR contains a subject that folds back on itself OR suggests a cyclical nature. The judge is intentionally leaving it wide open for you.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Minimalismo
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Minimalist photography is a style that has at its core the famous phrase: Less is More. And Minimalismo recognizes our judge in Barcelona. Show us your best/less minimalist photos!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
The Shadow Knows
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Make (or find) compelling images where the shadow is the star, but it gives hints about the identity of its “parent.” These should be well-thought-out images. Have fun, and be creative!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
The Rural Life
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Country life, agriculture, small towns, villages; definitely NOT the Big City... Show us your rural visions.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Duo
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Duo... two of anything, either showing similarity and harmony, or contrast or opposition. Let’s see your double vision (prefer solo images, not diptychs).
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Show that Song - The Beatles
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
2013 STARTS... It’s music appreciation time! Take ANY Beatles song title or lyric and represent or illustrate it with your photography, new or old.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Dream
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
2012 CONTESTS END HERE! Martin Luther King, Jr. had one. You have them. You see them with your eyes closed on the big screen in your mind. Now show us how they look through the lens of your camera. Show us your dreams.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
New Beginnings
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
A new year represents new beginnings. What do you see as a new beginning? Show us. (new or archived images OK)
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Photo Hunt - Celebration
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
A new photo scavenger hunt to celebrate the winter holidays and more. But new captures only! (Dec 8 - Jan 2, 2013) Extended 2-week Contest.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
A Skewed View
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Cameras are normally held either horizontally or vertically. Not in this contest! Instead, show us your Skewed Views where the camera is rotated or twisted to create a compelling photo.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Signs of the Times
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Think about the signs all around you and show us your best visual takes on them. Consider not just road signs, but any sort of display of utility or wayfinding information.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Pattern & Form
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Lines, shapes, and patterns are an important component of photographic composition. What do they reveal about the world and you? What do you see?
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Photo Hunt - At Home2
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
A photo scavenger hunt to find or capture the target subjects at or around your home. Don’t just record it; interpret and be creative/artful.
Extended 2-Week Contest.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
White
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
The color of everything or nothing, depending on how you look at it. Clouds, snow, starched shirts... let your creativity loose on the mother of all color.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
To Abstraction
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Going beyond visual recording, abstract photography can use distortion, multiple-exposure, photo montage, blur, and more to create from the realm of the mind.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Headshot
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Mug shots, head-n-shoulders, portraits, self-portraits... formal or informal. Humans or not.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Close-Up on Nature
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Close-up photography of the natural world. Includes Macro. Get up-close and personal with nature!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
The Blues
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
We’re not talking about melancholy but the color: Blue. Show us images that prominently feature our favorite section of the visible light spectrum.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Pet Art Show
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Photo Assignment: Pet food company creating gallery at its head- quarters. Art consultant seeking pet images for gallery walls. Photos to be of “companion pets,” not wild animals. And not only dogs and cats,
but snakes, turtles, tarantulas...
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
After Dark
CATEGORY: Weekly Photo Contest
Photo Assignment: Art director working on revamp of old magazine (24HOURS) seeking photos of nighttime scenes (indoor or outdoor) for cover and inside stories. The more artistic, the better.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
For “Pet Art Show” and “After Dark” ABOVE: Not weekly, these are longer photo assignments that are photo challenges modeled on traditional assignments that art directors, editors, and publishers have always given photographers. There is a task, a limited time period, and a final selection by the person giving the assignment.
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