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Photo Challenge

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The Photo Challenge inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons. Monthly thematic competitions encourage participants to try new subjects, new photographic or processing techniques, and to develop skills while improving the Commons repository of free images. Photographs entered into a competition must be new to Commons and taken by a Commons user.

Formal things

Challenges

Challenges are based on a theme and run for a month. The theme may be a concrete subject, an abstract concept, a photographic technique or artistic style.

Participation

Everybody can participate in challenges open for submission. You simply

  1. Choose one or all of the current challenges
  2. Read the challenge description(s), which may vary in their rules (e.g., some place restrictions on when the photos are taken)
  3. Take picture(s) for the challenge(s) during the challenge period (or, if allowed, select from your own existing pictures that are not yet on Commons)
  4. Upload your picture(s) during the challenge period
  5. Submit your candidates at the top of the current challenge gallery during the challenge period. To do that you click the [Edit] button of the Entries section of your chosen challenge and insert the File name above the last entry (or above File:-Insert image here-.svg for the first entry).
    Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
    Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
    For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
  6. Do not sign your submission(s)
  7. If you want, you can have a look at previous challenges and Vote

Challenges are open to any Commons user. Submissions must be your own work, not previously uploaded to Commons prior to the challenge date and should illustrate the challenge theme in the opinion of the photographer. Please read the challenge descriptions, as there may be additional rules or explanations for specific challenges. There is no limit on the number of submissions per user (unless specially so restricted in the challenge), but please choose from among your best and most varied images.

To submit pictures, you edit the gallery of the contest and add your candidate(s) to the top of the list.

New themes can be proposed and discussed here.

Assessment

After the challenge has closed to new submissions, the pictures will be assessed by popularity voting in the subsequent month. You are allowed to vote for images submitted by others if your Commons account is at least ten days old and has more than 50 edits or if you participated in one of the challenges. Challenges open for voting can be found here.

Winning

The best three pictures will be awarded first, second and third place. They will be displayed on the Photo challenge page and may use the template {{Photo challenge winner}} on the file description page.

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Challenges open for submission

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2020 – March – Nature's yellows

The new challenge features Nature's yellows or naturally occurring yellow color.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout March UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

  • Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
  • Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. March 2020 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
  • Submissions must be added to the top of the Entries section below.
  • Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

  • Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 14 days 2 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

Examples

  • 2012-10-13 15-29-35-sun.jpg
  • Ochre quarry, Roussillon, France (465185258).jpg
  • Vitoria - Olarizu - Crocus 01.jpg
  • Kurkuma.jpg
  • 2013.07.01-20-Wustrow-Neu Drosedow-Gelbe Lohbluete.jpg
  • Cucumis melo on white background.jpg
  • 2016-01-20 19-42-36 Chou-romanesco 70f.jpg
  • Calabacín, Múnich, Alemania, 2013-03-30, DD 01.JPG
  • Panurgus female on Glebionis 1.jpg
  • Primula aka.jpg
  • Rikr0068 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg
  • Yellow pansy (Junonia hierta cebrene) male.jpg
  • Wasp Punjab-India.JPG
  • Annapurna South, Himchuli, Machapuchare Himal-3794.jpg
  • São Lourenço The palm tree and rainbows. Madeira, Portugal.jpg
  • Flores-amarillas.jpg


Entries

  • Yellow sunset in Guadeloupe

  • Sulfur fumarole in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

  • Sonnenuntergang in Marsa Alam.

  • Rapsfeld beim Hohndorf. Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.

  • «Трипільська Толока».]]

  • Vineyards of Lavaux on Lac Léman near Epesses, Switzerland

  • Alpine Globeflower (Trollius) in the Swiss Alps near Grindelwald

  • Bumblebee in Canola

  • Yellow Donald Duck flowers at Kaas Plateau

  • Goldfinch at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery

  • Ficaria verna 2020.jpg

  • Snow crocus

  • Marsh marigold

  • Common primrose

  • Crocus vitellinus

  • Fuligo septica

  • Sunflower_Field_-_Nebraska_USA

  • Oriental white-eye on red flower, Windermere, Ooty

  • Sunflower with a 40mm macro lens

  • Rainbow with all colours after thunderstorm

  • Wild bee on dandelion

  • Parthenocissus quinquefolia -wild wine- in autumn discoloration

  • Episyrphus balteatus on the blossom of a chamomile

  • Sunset at Point Fermin, Califormia.

  • Yellow flowers among the ruins of Kollytos

  • Flower of a lithops cactus on the window sill

  • Vineyard in Kallstadt, Germany, with autumn colours

  • Buttercups on a meadow near Carsington Water, Derbyshire

  • Champ de colza dans le Val de Loire (3)

  • Champ de colza dans le Val de Loire (2)

  • Champ de colza dans le Val de Loire (1)

  • Autumn foliage in Oze National Park, Japan.

  • Yellow Portulaca flower in sunshine, on black background

  • The Reclaimer at sunrise at the Brockman 4 iron ore mine, Western Australia

  • Bengal tiger at Bengal Safari Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary.jpg
  • Indian leopard at Rasikbil.jpg
  • The Tree of the Flame Yellow.jpg
  • Yellow Flame of the Forest.jpg
  • Bamboo row.jpg
  • Tagetes marigold.jpg
  • Ginkgo biloba fallen leaves.jpg

  • sunset over the factory of Bayer in Brünsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein

  • Bee on a goldenrod, a neophyte in Germany

  • Bee on flower early spring 2020 in Florence - 1 -.jpg

  • Рослини Чатир-Дага]]

  • Sunset at Stanford

  • Sunset at Stanford

  • Autumn in Germany

  • Quitten

  • Gelbe Rosen und Raps.jpg

  • Old ochers quarries, Provence

  • Start a fire in a wood stove

  • Bee On Flower

  • Hyacinth macaw

  • Rose in Germany

  • Ginkgo biloba tree in Germany

  • Flowers and rocks, Brittany (France)

  • Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid at the United States Botanic Garden

  • Yellow tulips

  • Yellow flower with a hoverfly

  • Yellow stamens of a lily blossom

  • View from the Madonnenweg at Deidesheim to the east over the vineyards in autumn coloration

  • Oriental white eye on a mango tree at Pune, India

  • Осенний подсолнух в Ивановском, г. Подольск

  • Пупавка красильная, Подольский р-н

  • Желтые грибы, Сокольники, г. Москва

  • Одуванчик, пробивающийся у бордюра, г. Подольск

  • Yellow fruit

  • Holland, parade of flowers.

  • Don't miss the blooming tulips and pasqueflowers in the spring.

  • Olanda, fioritura dei tulipani

  • Авринія скельна]]

  • The sunrise in Himachal Pradesh

  • Gold-Krokus (Crocus flavus) von oben

  • Gold-Krokus (Crocus flavus)

  • A Forsythia shrubbery in the English Garden in Munich

  • Yellow rose

  • Rapsfeld beim Hohndorf. Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.

  • Gelbe Krokusse in Drebach. Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.

  • Highschool Courts

  • Yellow autumn leaves

  • Yellow roses

  • Tournesol

  • Yellow tulips, Yurigahara Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.jpg

  • Twig of Genista

  • L'ape cerca il nettare sui fiori gialli della colza

  • Ranunculus montanus in Vanoise National Park, France

  • Crepis aurea in Vanoise National Park, France

  • Doronicum grandiflorum in Vanoise National Park, France

  • Arnica montana in Vanoise National Park, France

  • Sonnenuntergang Laguna di Marano.jpg

  • Melanochromis auratus

  • Цветок райской птицы (Стрелитция королевская)

  • Желтая роза

  • Бабочка углокрыльница c-белое

  • Желтая тыква на жостовском подносе

  • Sunset over a Western Australian mining camp in the lead-up to Tropical Cyclone Damien

  • Wheat field, Prangins, Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland.jpg

  • Coreopsis lanceolata, the lanceleaf coreopsis, is widespread in Japan and is considered an invasive species.

  • Iyokan is in among jujubes.

  • Sun set in Macau

  • Onion skin under microscope

  • Iris pseudacorus flower

  • Yellow tulips at the Spring Flower Ball in Kharkiv 01.jpg
  • Yellow tulip at the Spring Flower Ball in Kharkiv 01.jpg
  • Yellow tulips at the Spring Flower Ball in Kharkiv 02.jpg
  • Yellow tulips at the Spring Flower Ball in Kharkiv 03.jpg
  • Oranges displayed at a market in Kerala .jpg

  • On the way to Qubbet el-Hawa

  • Beach of Wissant and the Cap Blanc-Nez (Fr)

  • Sonnenuntergang, Bloubergstrand, Lions Head, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Maskenwebervogel im Augrabies Falls National Park in Südafrika

  • Sonnenuntergang beim Berg Sentinel, Hout Bay, Südafrika

  • Misumena vatia on a sunflower

  • Желток в кружке

  • Тигровый питон-альбинос

  • Одуванчик в моем саду

  • Black Pollens

  • Flower of Golden shower tree in Kerala

  • Flower of Cassia fistula--in Kerala

  • Yellow Python

  • Quince Tree in Winter

  • SmileYellow

  • BloomandWilt

  • ShyYello

  • FarmFreshLemons

  • A Beautiful Insect

  • sunset great sand dunes

  • Жовті лілії

  • жовта комаха сонечко

  • жовта береза восени

  • сонечко на жовтій квітці

  • Dragonfly, France

  • Yellow flowers

  • Yellow sunset

  • Rainbow lorikeet in a golden bouquet tree

  • Foglie in autunno

  • Yellow flowers

  • Common Iora India

  • Laburnum India

  • Yellow Flowers Along Lone Cone.jpg
  • Yellow Tang at Ripley's Aquarium of Canada.jpg
  • Ginkgo Biloba a Firenze (piazzale Michelangelo).jpg
  • Rotoloni d paglia nella campagna della Valdisieve.jpg

  • Sunburned herbs

  • Nice dog

  • Flowers at roadside

  • Sunset in Cambodia

  • Taxidermied lion

  • Yellow-headed albino reticulated python.jpg
  • Forsythia with cloudless sky.jpg

  • Butterflower meadow

  • Coreopsis grandiflora come into bloom

  • Jesienne reminiscencje 02

  • Jesień w Warcie 1

  • Żółty ser

  • Trulipany

  • Jesień w parku

  • Echeveria blooming on hill in Canada

  • Yellow flower in full bloom in Philadelphia.jpg

  • Pomegranate flower closeup

  • thumb

  • yellow flower

  • thumb

2020 – March – Canyons and gorges

The new challenge features Canyons and gorges.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout March UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

  • Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
  • Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. March 2020 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
  • Submissions must be added to the top of the Entries section below.
  • Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

  • Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 14 days 2 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

Examples

  • Parque Nacional Aparados da Serra, Brazil

  • Rofental, Tirol.jpg

  • Walpa Gorge, Australia

  • "Canyon des Singes" and "Canyon des Rats", Madagascar

  • Atakora, Benin

  • Avakas Gorge, Cyprus

  • Orrido di Botri, Italy

  • Loch Ard Gorge Panorama July 2005.jpg

  • Wichita Canyon, United States

  • Φαράγγι Σαμαριάς 3754.jpg
  • Måbødalen, 2011 August.jpg
  • USA 10096-7-8 HDR Antelope Canyon Luca Galuzzi 2007.jpg

Entries

  • Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, United States

  • Cirque de Navacelles, 2011

  • Bozouls, le Trou

  • Grand Canyon du Verdon, 2008

  • Bozouls, le Trou (2)

  • Pont du chatelet, vallée de l'Ubaye, Hautes-Alpes, France

  • Natural monument Liechtensteinklamm

  • Gorge in the Sella group in the Dolomites

  • Within the Breitachklamm

  • Within the Breitachklamm

  • Jigokudani (Devil's Valley) in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

  • Canyon in Alaska near Wrangell-St. Elias Nationalpark

  • Gorge Partnachklamm, Bavaria, Germany

  • Calanque de port Miou, France

  • Combe Laval, France

  • Gorges du Tarn, France

  • Gorges du Doux, France

  • Praia da Marinha, Algarve, Portugal

  • Grand Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A

  • Buky Canyon, Ukraine

  • Grand Canyon by Grandview Point. Arizona

  • Wyoming. Grand Canyon of The Yellow Stone

  • Каньон реки Тара.jpg
  • В каньоне Сик.jpg
  • Внутри каньона Сик, Иордания.jpg
  • Из каньона Сик в Петру.jpg

  • view of canyons in Japan

  • Weathering

  • Mount Lu (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

  • Inside Qiandao Lake

  • Utah. Wolf Canyon

  • Utah. Bryce Canyon National Park

  • Geiranger. Norway

  • Utah. Canyonlands Natoin Park

  • Waimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii.jpg

  • Bärenschütz gorge near Mixnitz in Styria

  • Black canyon viewing platform.jpg

  • Los Tilos at Island of La Palma, Spain

  • Vintgar Gorge, Slovenia

  • Niagara Gorge

  • Philopappos Hill

  • Niagara Gorge - the Whirlpool

  • Niagara Gorge - American and Bridal Veil Falls

  • Shirahige Falls, Biei River, Hokkaido, Japan.jpg
  • Iya Gorge, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan.jpg

Challenges open for voting

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Voting is open to all registered contributors who have held accounts for at least 10 days and made 50 edits, and also to new Commons contributors who have entered the challenge with a picture. Users cannot vote for their own picture. Voters may select up to three photographs in each theme to award points and can give praise to other photos without awarding points. Voting will be open for one month. The votes not complying with those requirements will be removed or converted to praises. In some cases users might be asked to correct their votes after voting ends.


Previous challenges

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Rural decay: Entries • Votes • Scores
Rank 1 2 3
Image Бабушкин дом.jpg Kirgistan - Hammer and Sickle.jpg 无人村 3.jpg
Title Бабушкин дом]]] Hammer und Sichel, ehemalige UdSSR,
heutiges Kirgistan		 An abandoned village in Kaiping, China
Author Александр Водолазский Benjamin Goetzinger Mx. Granger
Score 14 13 11
Fruit: Entries • Votes • Scores
Rank 1 2 3
Image Heidelbeeren auf dem Ast IMG 3415WI2.jpg Strawberry Half.jpg Weintrauben Rot-20061010-RM-142355.jpg
Title Heidelbeeren auf dem Zweig. Aufgenommen im sächsischen Wald. Deutschland. Strawberry half Grapes on a balcony in Germany
Author Kora27 5snake5 Ermell
Score 22 15 11

Previous years

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