Commons:Photo challenge
Photo Challenge
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
- Choose one or all of the current challenges
- Read the challenge description(s), which may vary in their rules (e.g., some place restrictions on when the photos are taken)
- 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)
- Upload your picture(s) during the challenge period
- 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.
- 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:
- Do not sign your submission(s)
- 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.
Table of contents
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Challenges open for submission
2022 – January – Multiculturalism
The new challenge features Multiculturalism or cultural and ethnic pluralism.
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 January 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. January 2022 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 1 days 23 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)
Examples
Entries
- Senhor Piraju, um indígena da tribo Guarani, em São Paulo piraju.jpg
Os Guarani, como outras tribos indígenas, são os primeiros habitantes do Brasil
2022 – January – Heavy equipment
The new challenge features Heavy equipment, or mining, industrial and agricultural machines.
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 January 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. January 2022 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 1 days 23 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)
Examples
Entries
Heavy Russian Truck “Ural Next”
Challenges open for voting
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.
December 2021
Previous challenges
November 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Taxi Driver pull car to the front line to pick up passengers |
An old Nissan Sunny with cats taking a rest on it. |
Sport boat below Bamberg lock in MD canal |
Author | Mojtabagolestani97 | Annatsach | Ermell |
Score | 37 | 17 | 14 |
- Hedges ->
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Hedges protecting on the Vieux chemin de Lille.- Bailleul (Fr) |
Landscape with hedges in the snow near Alfreton, Derbyshire, England |
Snow-covered hedge |
Author | Pierre André Leclercq | Kmtextor | Sudzie |
Score | 18 | 16 | 13 |
October 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Faggeta di Canfaito (Marche, Italia) nella nebbia autunnale |
Autumn trees against the sky in Six Mile Canyon near Virginia City, Nevada, USA |
In the Bruderwald in Bamberg |
Author | IvoK. | Semiautonomous | Ermell |
Score | 24 | 14 | 12 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | Lonesome dromedary in Wahiba Sands (Oman) |
In a beautiful town, in the south of France |
Одиночество в большом городе |
Author | DEspel | Celeda | Андрей Малков |
Score | 14 | 13 | 12 |
September 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | O'Neill & Walsh Crests- Wedding 14 September 1995 |
Populonia - Stemma degli Appiani sulla Porta del Castello simbolo dei Signori di Piombino |
Coat of arms on the portal of the former Domherrenhof in Bamberg |
Author | Joseywales1961 | PROPOLI87 | Ermell |
Score | 14 | 12 | 10 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | CACTUS flower lightbox blooms only of one night in year --Arpit Suman |
Philips projection lamp 6280C/05 for slide projectors, base G17q, 220 V, 300 W |
Siemens & Halske flat relay 48 of an telephone exchange |
Author | Arpit Suman | F. Riedelio | F. Riedelio |
Score | 12 | 11 | 9 |
August 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Chephrenpyramide in Gizeh | Sunrays shining through trees and weak fog near Walchwil, Switzerland |
Echinopsis Oxygona |
Author | Sadarama | Roy Egloff | PtrQs |
Score | 15 | 9 | 8 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | Playground with a view | Детская площадка в холодное время года |
Tiny playground (rather playboard), Berkeley, Jan 1970 |
Author | GabrielleMerk | Vitaliy VK | Foeniz |
Score | 19 | 11 | 8 |
July 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Begegnung früh morgens in der Oberalsterniederung (Naturschutzgebiet), Schleswig-Holstein |
La finestra sul mare, Finale Ligure | Concrete workers on the ABS Nuremberg-Ebensfeld |
Author | ThomasLendt | Valeria1582 | Ermell |
Score | 34 | 24 | 12 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | A stroller wagon | Hundeschlitten zum Transport eines Kindes | Lost pacifiers on the pacifier tree in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park |
Author | Ka23 13 | Bühnenreif | F. Riedelio |
Score | 23 | 18 | 18 |
June 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Abyssinian roller hunts a grasshopper at dusk | whinchat in flight jump from bush to bush | Geese and Common cranes fly with Christian Moullec who reared them. Airshow Bex 2007, Switzerland |
Author | Dotun55 | Irvin calicut | Roy Egloff |
Score | 22 | 21 | 20 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | Reporter bei der Arbeit | Cinq loups arctiques | Five fishing boats on quiet misty lake |
Author | Mensch01 | Musicaline | Foeniz |
Score | 27 | 21 | 20 |
May 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Wolf Spider Eyes | Misumena vatia with prey | Juvenil hermit crab Pagarus, Praslin, Seychelles |
Author | Hsingtism | Bendix Grünlich | Mozzihh |
Score | 17 | 17 | 16 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | Nella pallanuoto attacco da lontano con difesa schierata |
Two canoeists on Maligne Lake (Canada) | Sailing on the Baltic sea |
Author | 66colpi | DEspel | Dizelede |
Score | 24 | 17 | 15 |
April 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 2 |
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image | |||
Title | Fossil of a crocodile in the AMNH | Who ate who? Echinodermata fossils from Morocco | |
Author | Wuselig | Ermell | RomanDeckert |
Score | 23 | 22 | 22 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | Hochhausfassade in Tel Aviv | triangular stairwell, Genoa Italy |
Square origami boxes |
Author | Sadarama | Ddgfoto | Changku88 |
Score | 25 | 17 | 17 |
March 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | Im Industriemuseum Nürnberg | Overhead power line at sunset | Windräder mit einem Kohlekraftwerk im Hintergrund |
Author | Mensch01 | Ermell | Lowcarb23 |
Score | 18 | 16 | 15 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | Oma strickt Strümpfe | Cross stitch image of a street flower market |
Knitted tent |
Author | Sadarama | Garth Weals | Spielvogel |
Score | 53 | 13 | 13 |
February 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Harbourbridge bei Nacht | Devil's bridge (lo schiaccianoci) | Harbour Bridge, Sydney |
Author | Sadarama | Repuli | Ddgfoto |
Score | 13 | 11 | 11 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
image | |||
Title | "verdammt windig hier oben" | Windy Wedding | Baumreihe an einer Straße in Südengland |
Author | Sadarama | Paulhaberstroh | DEspel |
Score | 37 | 25 | 11 |
January 2021
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | [[File:|x240px]] | ||
Title | Maintenance of a railroad switch | Searching the night sky. | The Pink Floyd exhibition: their mortal remains, Rome |
Author | Ka23 13 | Annatsach | Ddgfoto |
Score | 23 | 12 | 12 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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image | |||
Title | Rue Saint-Jean, Sancerre, France |
zwei Skulpturen in Hannovers Innenstadt |
Under the "Umbrellas" of Thessaloniki (Greece). |
Author | Rolf Kranz | Sadarama | Annatsach |
Score | 31 | 16 | 15 |