April photo contest winners!
First Place
Pine Siskin
by Allen Brooks
2nd Place
3rd Place
Oregon Birding Association Photo Contest
Where each month photographers share images, skills and knowledge and the Oregon birding community chooses their favorite photo.
To enter for April:
- Entries are accepted between April 1 and April 14 at midnight.
- Photos must have been taken in Oregon.
- Photos must have been taken in February, March, or April 2024.
- To enter the contest, email one photo to contest administrator Ed McVicker at photocontest@oregonbirding.org. Please include in the email the species name, location, and your name. Do not insert signature or text into/on photo.
- Photos must be wild birds listed on the Official Checklist of Oregon Birds or a new state bird likely to be admitted to the official list.
- Birds should not be in-hand or otherwise in a non-natural situation.
- Photos can be slightly edited (cropping and small lighting touch-ups)
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Contest Rules
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- Contest submissions must be of wild birds listed on the Official Checklist of Oregon Birds or a new state bird likely to be admitted to the official list.
- While minor editing to crop or adjust lighting are acceptable, photographs with major modifications to the subject or background, or photo montages, will be rejected by the contest moderator, whose decision is final.
- You do not need to be an OBA member to submit a photo in the contest.
- You do not need to be an OBA member to vote in the contest.
- Submission period for photos will be the first two weeks of every month, and must be received by our Contest Coordinator by midnight on the 14th day. Submitted photos will then be posted here for people to vote on.
- Once the voting is completed, the winning photo will be displayed as our website home-page image for the following month.
- When you submit a photograph to OBA photo contest, you retain the copyright to your submission, while granting to OBA a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and perpetual license, in all media (print, electronic, or other), to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, and publicly display the photograph for any purposes that further the mission of OBA. These purposes may include (without limitation) scientific research, display on OBA website(s) and social media, publication in Oregon Birds and other print media, promotional uses, and inclusion in OBA multimedia content and products. Whenever OBA uses your photo, you will be credited by name. Include your social media handle/user name with submission to be tagged in social media.
- Photographers may only submit one photo per contest (monthly).
- Voters may only vote for one photo per contest (monthly). Multiple votes may not be cast in one email.
- Photo must have been taken in Oregon and within the current month or two months prior (although we sometimes make exceptions to the date range rule for special, themed contests). For example, only photos from March, April, and May will be accepted for May’s contest.
- Please include the species name, location, date the photo was taken, and your name and email address.
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