Our next Shutterbug Photography Contest tasks entrants to capture their hometown pride — and that hometown can be where you’re living currently or a place from your past that had a major impact on shaping the person you are today. Winning photographs will show a strong grasp of technical skills such as use of light and composition as well as captivating subject matter.
Images can include people or not, and they can be selfies. As you accept this challenge, please stay safe. We don’t want anyone to take a tumble in the name of the Shutterbug contest.
Contest rules
- The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers. For the purposes of this competition, you are considered a professional if you regularly sell your images or garner more than 50 percent of your income from photography.
- Photographs must have been taken by you.
- A photographer can enter no more than three photographs. There is no cost to enter.
- All entries must be made online. We won’t accept prints for this contest. Sign on to tnmagazine.org and click on “Entry Forms” under “Contests.” Complete the form and upload your photograph(s).
- Employees of Tennessee’s electric cooperatives and their immediate families are not eligible to win.
- Please include the name of each recognizable person, if any other than yourself, in your photograph. It is the photographer’s responsibility to have the subject’s permission to enter his or her image in the contest. You must include the subject’s name and contact information with your submission. Omitting any of this information can result in disqualification.
- By entering the contest, photographers automatically give The Tennessee Magazine permission to publish the winning images in print and digital publications, to social media and on websites.
Shutterbug assignment
“My Hometown”
Submissions — online entries only
Enter using the form below.
Deadline
Entries must be entered online by midnight (Central Daylight Time) on Monday, July 17. Winners will be published in the September issue.
Prize packages:
Judges will select a first-, second- and third-place winner in each division and age group. These prizes will be awarded: First place wins $150, second place $100 and third place $50.
