Photography Forum & Digital Photography Forum FAQ

TPF’s Photo Challenge is a monthly photo contest, with a new theme for each challenge.

Any registered member of The Photo Forum may enter.

Images must be emailed to one of the Challenge Moderators. All submitted photos must include a form that needs to be completed. A copy of the form will be posted each month, along with the new theme for the Challenge. Just copy and paste the form into your reply email. This will ensure that no mistakes are made when photos are submitted and therefore, hopefully, no photos will be disqualified. If the form is not included in the submission email, the photo will not be included in the Challenge gallery and voting process.

Yes. The image can be no larger then 150 KB.

The Monthly Challenge submissions must all be anonymous. Images that have been previously posted on TPF will be disqualified. Images with watermarks, signatures, or any distinguishing marks that identify the photographer will be disqualified.

If there is any question of copyright violation, the image will be disqualified. The forum Admins and Moderators reserve the right to not include or disqualify any photo solely at their discretion.

As long as your submission has followed the Challenge guidelines, ie, you've submitted with the entry form and are within the image size values, etc., you will NOT hear back from the Challenge moderator. If there is any special issue with your submission, however, you will be contacted.

They won't be displayed until after the deadline to submit. After the deadline, there will be a new poll in the Challenge forum, and a link to the Challenge gallery with all the submissions.

The voting polls are open for one week.

Each registered member is only able to vote once. A member who has been registered with TPF for less than 10 days, and has fewer than 25 posts on TPF, is not eligible to vote in any poll, including The Photo Challenge. If it comes to our attention that a member may have employed methods to artificially inflate the number of votes for their photo (such as created multiple accounts), we will investigate. If we determine anything fraudulent has occurred, the photo in question will be disqualified, and the member will be banned.

Prizes are sometimes available, and can vary widely in value. This may mean that, for some months, the prize is recognition for the win by displaying the winning photographer’s name, with the winning image, on the TPF homepage – while other months, if sponsored, a specific prize will be announced in the monthly challenge announcement. We also plan to offer winners a selection of items from the TPF store, depending upon availability – so keep checking!

Yes. In order to keep the Challenge open for a “first win” to as many eligible TPF members as possible, a prize will only be awarded to the same winning member once every six (6) months.

You can submit images to the Challenge anytime. However, in the event you win again within the time frame specified, the prize will default to the next highest winner.

In the event of a tie, the forum Moderators will vote for the winner.

You can send in whatever photo you think best represents the subject. We deliberately keep the Challenge themes brief, so a lot is left to the interpretation of the photographer. Part of the fun is to see all the different ways we respond to a given theme. Use your imagination - and have fun with it!