WILD Photo Awards – Win UNCAPPED Prize Money

The WILD Photo Awards were founded on the prospects of delivering talented photographers a global platform to showcase their work and offer a realistic opportunity to monetise their passion through monthly photography competitions.

We give away 50% of our income as prize money in every competition – The global community of landscape and wildlife photographers is continuously growing, and opportunities to make a living in this industry have never been more competitive. The WILD Photo Awards aims to offer another avenue of income to talented photographers by running back-to-back photography competitions every quarter throughout the year, offering uncapped prize money to our winning entrants in every competition. Our prize money will always scale with the popularity of our competitions, and we won’t ever cap what we give out.

ANIMAL PORTRAITS CATEGORY

This category is for images that show an animal’s character or defining features in a creative way where the main subject of the image is the species itself.

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​Images should focus on demonstrating the behaviour of a species or how it interacts with it’s environment in familiar and interesting ways. 

SCENES IN NATURE CATEGORY

Images depicting classical views of scenery or more undiscovered locations from all over the world,  this category is for lovers of landscape photography in its purest form.

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​Images should show off the finer details in nature, concentrating on the beauty that can be found in patterns and colours as well as advocating experimental camera techniques.

Every entry plants a tree

We believe our community shares our passion for wildlife and is the perfect place to act as a creative hub to showcase the natural beauty of our world. If you've ever entered images in to any of our competitions, whether it's the landscapes and species close to home or images taken further afield, you have been inspired to do so by our beautiful planet.

We want to do more than provide a platform for world class nature photography and with our entire ethos revolving around giving back, we plant a tree with Ripple Africa  for every image entered in to one of our competitions.

A completely level playing field

Ever entered a community photo contest where the winner is decided by other participants voting for their favourite image, where tactical voting plays a part and images that that were submitted on the opening day of the competition usually end up winning? ​

Not here. All of our competitions are judged by expert photographers within their respected fields and judging doesn't begin until after the closing date of each competition.

RULES

Eligibility

• Our competitions are open to both amateur and professional photographers over the age of 18.

• Individuals or persons directly connected (deemed as partners and family) with judges or competition organisers are not eligible to enter.

  Entry Submissions and guidelines

  • Entrants are permitted to submit as many images to each competition as they wish.

  • Competitions are run quarterly throughout the year (4 competitions per year for each category) and are run back-to-back.

  • All competitions will begin on the first day of the first month of each quarter and run until the final day of the final month. For example, our Q1 competition will run from 00:00 1st January until 1st April 08:00 GMT unless otherwise stated. If an image is submitted after this date and time it would automatically be entered in to the the next quarterly competition.

  • Submissions must be in JPEG format, saved at a minimum quality of 8 - Scans of transparencies/negatives are eligible.

  • Images should be a saved at 1920 pixels on their longest side. Click here for help if you're unsure on how to process your images to meet our guidelines.

  • Entrants are permitted to make basic adjustments to images that do not alter the contents of an image, such as - exposure, contrast, levels, noise reduction, dust removal, cropping, dodging and burning etc. 

  • Adjustments such as adding or removing objects to images, sky replacements and composites are not permitted

  Ethics

  • Images of domestic pets or farm animals are not permitted, however images of captive species are allowed but must be declared in the description of the image.

  • Image captions detailing locations/species must be true and accurate if provided.

  • It is the duty of all photographers to obtain any necessary licenses needed to pilot drones if used and adhere to laws surrounding their use.

  • It is the duty of all photographers to obtain any necessary licenses needed to photograph protected or vulnerable species and abide by all laws regarding disturbance to wildlife.

  • We do not condone the practice of live baiting and images created using this technique are prohibited.

    Prize Money

    • All prize money is generated from entry fees we receive from participants and 50% of all income is used as prize money in each competition.

    • Prize money will be awarded to the named person on the entry form.

    • Winners will be contacted by the email address provided on their entry submissions and will have 60 days from the day they are notified of their success to provide valid payment details. If no details are provided, prize money will be forfeited.

    • All prize money will be paid via PayPal - any fees induced for foreign currency conversions are the responsibility of the recipient.

    • The percentage of the prize money each winner will receive is as follows:

    • Winner - 35%

    • Runner-up - 15%