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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.

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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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Please note users can disable the media viewing experience for all images on Commons when logged in (uncheck "Enable Media Viewer" under Files and click Save in Preferences, Appearance).

Challenges open for submission

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2023 – May – Macro photography

The new challenge features Macro photography.

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 May 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. May 2023 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 5 days 0 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)


Examples

Entries

2023 – May – Feather

The new challenge features Feathers

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 May 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. May 2023 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 5 days 0 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)


Examples

Entries

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.


April 2023

Previous challenges

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March 2023

Laundering: EntriesVotesScores
Rank 1 2 3
image Burano Hausfassade Wäsche-20090315-RM-113043.jpg Washing clothes in a open area.jpg Washing day in Venice Italy.jpg
Title Facade of a house
at 277, Fondamenta
Cavanella in Burano (Italy)
Washing clothes in a open area Laundry lines in a
residential neighbourhood
in Venice, Italy
Author Ermell Pauloleong2002 Marc-Lautenbacher
Score 15 12 11
Hotels and Motels: EntriesVotesScores
Rank 1 2 3
image Ice-Hotel Quebec Canada.jpg CH.GR.Arosa Tschuggen-Grand-Hotel 2220 16x9-R 16K.jpg CH.ZH.Zurich Hotel The-Dolder-Grand 3x2-R 15K.jpg
Title Ice-Hotel in Quebec Canada,
the only one in North America
Spa at Tschuggen Grand Hotel The Dolder Grand, Zurich, Switzerland
Author Marc-Lautenbacher Roy Egloff Roy Egloff
Score 15 14 12

February 2023

Handles: EntriesVotesScores
Rank 1 2 2
image Leather trunk handle.jpg Handle Of A Pot Lid.jpg 2019042701 Elix Maurerglättkelle-roter-griff 2019.jpg
Title Handle of leather trunk
from the early 1900s
Handle Of A Pots Lid Glättkelle mit
rotem Holzgriff
Author Mariojan photo OJjnr VSchagow
Score 14 8 8
Cruise ship: EntriesVotesScores
Rank 1 2 2
image Royal-clipper.jpg Cruise vessel Expedition off Cuverville Island.jpg 20160604T095017 norwegen-ms1.jpg
Title Royal Clipper
sailing the Med
cruise vessel
'Expedition' in Antarctica
Cruise ships in
Geiranger Fjord, Norway
Author Cbuske46 Virtual-Pano Hgrobe
Score 26 10 10

January 2023

Ice: EntriesVotesScores
Rank 1 2 3
image 114 once an iceberg now a Growler and a scupture V-P.jpg Rime-ice-found-on-summit-cross.jpg Jahn-Wehr Bamberg Winter 2018-20180228-RM-114615.jpg
Title A growler became a sculpture wind-blown rime ice found
on a summit cross
jogger crossing the icy right barrier
gate of the Jahnwehr weir in Bamberg, Germany
Author Virtual-Pano Roy Egloff Ermell
Score 19 18 15
Hospitals: EntriesVotesScores
Rank 1 2 3
image Krankenhaus 002 2015 03 24.jpg Namib sand in Kolmanskop hospital 1609-0914.jpg New part of Haukeland University Hospital from Møllendal Graveyard in Bergen, Norway.jpg
Title Hospital corridor in the
“Marienhaus Klinikum Hetzelstift“
Hospital corridor covered
with Namib sand in ghost
town Kolmanskop, Namibia
Ny del av Haukeland Universitetssykehus
fra Møllendal gravplass i Bergen
Author F. Riedelio Mozzihh Odd Roar Aalborg
Score 16 14 11

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