Connecticut meadow garden with native wildflowers.
Summer is officially over, so let’s see what it looked like to Gardening Gone Wild readers with a new Picture This photo contest. And let’s welcome some new participants from the PhotoBotanic ebook blog tour.
We will have 2 divisions this time: one for bloggers and one for Facebook entries. Only bloggers are eligible for The Gold award, but all entries are eligible for the Silver. Additionally, at least two honorable mentions will receive critique and comment.
The Gold Award receives either a complete set of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop e-books (now gold award winner) or a light diffusion disc that every garden photographer must have when working in the sun. More below.
The contest runs from now until October 9 and must be a photo taken in the summer – so you can’t be tempted to run out and take a new photo.
Canada Goldenrod flowering in California summer meadow.
You no longer have to have an active blog to enter, but we really like to see blog posts of your summer photos to share, so bloggers get first choice of prizes and I will link all blog entries in the judging.
1. For bloggers to be eligible for judging, you need to leave us TWO LINKS – a direct link to the image, and a link to your blog post that includes the image (and that says you are entering the Gardening Gone Wild Picture This Photo Contest )– in a comment on this post. Your links need to be correct in order for your photo to be entered into the contest. If need be, check out Comments on a previous Picture This contests to see how others have done it.
For Facebook entries you must post your photo to the Picture This Facebook Page and then Comment here with your name and photo title saying you are entering the contest.
2. You are allowed one entry per contest; and by entering you give Gardening Gone Wild permission to reproduce it on our website. While not a requirement, we urge you to watermark your photo in case it gets pinned or “borrowed”.
3. Please make the long side of the image needs to minimally be 800 pixels.
4. The deadline for entries is 11:59 PM Eastern time on Saturday, October 9, 2015. There are no exceptions.
Manzanita shrubs with grasses by swimming pool in California summer garden.
The theme is simply: “Summer” – so that is pretty wide open. Vegetables, fruit, and flowers.
Red harvest in late summer garden
Wildflowers.
Sidalcea hartwegii – Valley Checkerbloom California wildflower in Sierra meadow.
Shrubs,
View through garden gate into summer garden with flowering Hydrangea shrubs
Prizes
My e-book Good Garden Photography just received the Gold award from the Garden Writers Association as Best Overall Book published in 2014 and I have just finished a blog tour for the book and invited new garden photographers to our contest. A complete set of all three Workshop e-books is one of the prizes.
The other prize is a diffusion scrim, a disk to soften the harsh light of summer. I wrote about these tools in a post and showed how I use them : How to create soft light for photos.
Sunlight scrim for harsh light for photographing Lilium humboldtii
I am happy to say the good folks at Visual Departures have provided a 38″ translucent Flexfill disc – my favorite portable scrim.
Prize supplied by Flexfill – a 32″ disc !
The Gold award photo winner gets to choose which prize they want.
But it’s not all about prizes, let’s share photos. I will comment on them all. Join in by Oct. 9.
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