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CNPA 2025 Convention

CNPA’s Members’ Choice Contest

Capture the Best of Nature and Showcase Your Photography Skills

-- link to all of last year's winners --

CNPA’s Members’ Choice Contest

Challenge Yourself with CNPA’s Best Photography Competition

Members submit digital images, which are judged by the entire CNPA membership.

  • Opens 8 AM on October 1, 2024
  • Deadline for submission is 6 PM October 31, 2024
  • $9.50 per image / May enter up to 15 single images in any combination of categories
  • Awards for Best of Show, Top of Tier, and Category winners
  • Eight diverse categories to enter
  • One overall winner receives the Best of Show title
  • Please click on ‘Rules & Guidelines’ for full image eligibility criteria
  • Do not wait until the last day to submit your image(s)
  • 2025 Categories:

    Landscape | Wildlife World | Wildlife North America | Captive | Small Stuff | Plants | Birds | Artistic/Creatively Processed

    Tier One:

    Includes any member who has won a Best of Show, Top of Tier, First Place prize or multiple prizes (BOS, TOT, or 1st to 3rd Place prizes) in any previous CNPA Members’ Choice Contest or who describes him/herself, or is generally recognized, as a professional photographer or workshop leader.

    Test: Have you won (2) 3rd place or better or one of the top prizes – including a 1st Place in all previous Members’ Choice Contests,? If yes, enter it Tier 1.

    Tier Two:

    Includes any member who has never won a Best of Show, Top of Tier, First Place prize or won any multiple of prizes (BOS, TOT, 1st to 3rd Place prizes) in any previous CNPA Members’ Choice Contest and who does not describe him/herself, or is not generally recognized, as a professional photographer or workshop leader.

    A member who has entered in Tier One may enter in Tier Two in subsequent years if they meet the new criteria.

    While any member may choose to enter in Tier One, the Contest Committee may require that a particular member enter in Tier One.

    Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association

    P.O. Box 97323
    Raleigh, NC 27624-7323
    info@cnpa.org

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