Award Categories

Color Photography

Celebrating vibrant, compelling color work that captures light, mood, and the spectrum of human experience. From photojournalism to fine art, color photography demands mastery of saturation, tone, and emotional resonance.

Black & White

Timeless monochrome imagery that relies on composition, contrast, and emotion. Emphasizes form, geometry, and the essential structure of light. Black and white photography strips away color to reveal the pure essence of a moment.

Mobile

An open category dedicated to photographs captured with smartphones and mobile devices. Any subject and style is welcome, as long as the image reflects strong composition, creativity, and visual impact. Democratizing photography.

Landscape & Nature

Grand vistas and intimate natural details. The untouched beauty of Earth's diverse ecosystems—mountains, deserts, forests, and wilderness. Explores humanity's relationship with the natural world and the environment's visual majesty.

Birds

Avian photography celebrating the diversity, grace, and behavior of birds. From rare species to common varieties, capturing flight, plumage, and ecological significance. Documents our planet's ornithological heritage.

Human & Environment

Portraiture and cultural documentation. Explores the human condition and humanity's relationship with the natural and built world. Celebrates diversity, tells stories, and bridges cultural understanding through visual narrative.

Climate Change

Documentary imagery addressing environmental challenges. Visual evidence of climate impact and the imperative for global environmental action. Holds a mirror to our changing planet and calls for urgent response.

Wildlife

Animals in their natural habitats, from majestic wildlife to intimate creature portraits. Captures behavior, beauty, and the biodiversity of our planet. Celebrates the animals that share our world.

Agriculture & Rural

Images of farms, fields, livestock, harvests, and the daily lives of rural communities, from traditional practices to contemporary methods. Honors the people and places that sustain our world.

Macro & Details

The hidden world revealed through magnification. Intricate textures, patterns, and intimate details visible only through close observation. Transforms the microscopic into the monumental.

Water & Life

Aquatic environments and marine ecosystems. Explores water's vital ecological role and the biodiversity that depends on aquatic habitats. Reveals the underwater world that sustains all life.

Architecture

Built environments and structural form. Examines contemporary and historic architecture, design, geometry, and humanity's imprint on the landscape. Celebrates the art of construction and urban design.

Aerial & Drone

Perspectives from above revealing landscape patterns, scale relationships, and visual compositions invisible from ground level. A new vantage point on our world's geography and beauty.

Minimalism

Simplicity and restraint as artistic power. Essential composition, negative space, and distilled visual language conveying profound meaning. Sometimes less is infinitely more.