New Mexico Magazine Photo Contest

New Mexico Magazine is known for its stunning photography of the land and its people. Each year, we invite you, our readers, to submit their favorite photos of the state and you always amaze us.

View the 2012 grand prize winner and runners up here.

Here are our revised rules.

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Here are some key points to know about our contest:

• The cost is $25 for the first five images submitted.  Each additional image is $5 with a maximum of 10 submissions.
• Winners will be published in the February 2013 issue, available on newsstands on or about January 22, 2013.
• The grand prize will be a workshop of your choice with Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, our co-sponsor.
• The judges include Reid Callanan, Director, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
  Douglas Merriam, contributing photographer
  Dave Herndon, Editor-in-Chief, New Mexico Magazine
  Fabian West, Art Director, New Mexico Magazine
  All decisions made by the judges are final. New Mexico Magazine shall determine winner eligibility in its sole and absolute discretion.
  Finalists will be selected on or about November 5 and notified by email or regular mail on or about November 8.

Here are our revised rules.

Please click here to enter.

The New Mexico Magazine Photo Contest is about presenting the beauty of New Mexico through photographs of its people and places. It is open to anyone with a keen eye for capturing the essence of our enchanted land. It is an amateur contest in the best sense, and not open to professionals who derive more than 50% of their income from photography.

Digital photography has changed the way in which images can be made. Our contest is about the simple statement of your lens. Yes, you can darken, lighten and enhance the color in your photographs. You can change contrast, burn and dodge your images, and convert them to black and white. You can use digital software to enhance texture, clarity, ambience, and mood to further engage the viewer.

However, our contest is not about presenting fictionalized images—those photographs that are created by the addition of pieces from other images or the combination of several photographs, or enhanced in such a way that the image appears outside of reality. New Mexico is already so incredibly beautiful that we consider this type of image-making contrary to the spirit of this contest.

WHO CAN ENTER
With the following exceptions, anyone can enter the New Mexico Magazine Photo Contest:   photographers who derive more than 50% their annual income from photography; employees of New Mexico Magazine, the New Mexico Tourism Department, and prize sponsors may not enter.
By submitting images to the contest, photographers grant New Mexico Magazine and all other sponsors the right to publish the images in their publications, websites, email newsletters and any promotional material (i.e. press releases or advertising) without payment.

Here are our revised rules.

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ENTRY CATEGORIES
You may submit up to 10 images. A Grand Prize will be awarded to the best overall entry for the quality of the body of work submitted. First, second, and third prizes will be awarded in each of the following categories:
1. Outdoor scenes: landscapes, waterscapes, and weather from the Land of Enchantment
2. Sense of place: cities, villages, buildings, ruins, monuments, or other structures that suggest a feeling of place
3. People: people working, playing, celebrating
4. Animals: all creatures great and small that dominate the image
5. Plantlife: all plants great and small that dominate the image

 

The contest is now closed. Winners will appear in the February 2013 issue.