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Nashville Environmental Sustainability Photo Contest
Contest Description The Metro Nashville Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Committee is searching for pictures that represent Nashville’s environmental successes and prospects. Pictures could contain a range of environmental difficulties, impacts, or methods. Entries will be judged on relevance to the concept, as well as composition, originality, and specialized top quality, and will consist of open voting by the general public. Winners will be exhibited on the net and all over a variety of venues all-around Nashville. The contest is open up to inhabitants of Davidson and surrounding counties. Connect with for Entries: Opens early December 2022. Indicator up to get an email recognize when the contest opens. Deadline to Submit: February…
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‘Everyone is an artist. We just need to learn how to see’: Zimbabwe’s My Beautiful Home contest | Global development
A crescent moon hung high in the starry sky above Matopos village in Zimbabwe, while an eagle owl was hooting on the thatch roof as Peggy Masuku crept out of her clay-brick home. It was 4am, the hour before daybreak, and two weeks before the competition she had put every fibre of her being into. My Beautiful Home is a project that seeks to rekindle the ancient art of decorating and beautifying rural homesteads using materials, colours and pigments gathered from the earth. Prizes are practical and useful: shovels, rainwater tanks, three-legged iron pots, day-old chicks, and even a hive and beekeeping course for regional winners. But as judging day…
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New art contest open to Kingston youth
The Sydenham District Association (SDA) is managing an artwork contest open to youth in Kingston. Tuesday, Jan. 31, is the submission deadline. Winners will be declared on Feb. 10 throughout numerous age categories—the greatest in the 15-18 and 19-25 brackets will each just take property $50. The Journal spoke with Tara Sharkey, SDA board member, about the contest and applying artwork to improve associations among youth and the community. “We required to involve the [19-25] age team to permit the college students of Queen’s know that we are listed here. We would love for them to be portion of it,” Sharkey explained. The contest prompt is ‘What I Like About…
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A Landscape Photography Contest Rewards Unique Approaches to the Genre
The genre of landscape photography usually involves cliffs, gorges, mountainous peaks, and other monumental natural formations captured from the panoramic perspective of a wide-angle lens. The inaugural Natural Landscape Photography Awards’ (NLPA) selection for Photograph of the Year is an unexpected and delightful break from tradition. What at first glance looks like an icy snow cap gleaming underneath a rust-tinged, amorphous moon is actually the tip of a miniature iceberg lying atop a black sand beach in Iceland, decorated with an orange pebble nearby. The photograph’s friendly parody of perhaps the most common compositional silhouette in landscape photography makes for a tongue-in-cheek winning entry in an oftentimes self-serious category. “Landscapes…
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The stunning winners of a landscape photography contest that has strict rules on photoshopping
Here’s a landscape photography competition that’s keeping it real. The Natural Landscape Photography Awards has revealed its 2021 winners, with each entrant adhering to strict rules on photoshopping and editing so that viewers ‘would not feel deceived by the end result if they were to see that original scene themselves’. The founders of the contest strive to promote ‘realism’ in landscape photography, saying: ‘Digital adjustments are allowed with the understanding that the integrity of the subject should be maintained.’ Utah-based landscaper photographer Eric Bennett takes the top spot in the first year of the contest, winning Photographer of the Year and trumping 13,368 entries from 47 countries. Bennett says of…