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Photo Challenge

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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.

Formal things

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.

Table of contents

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

Challenges open for submission

2018 – March/April – Portraits of influential women

The new challenge features Portraits of influential women well known in their fields. Please provide a name and field.

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 March – April 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. March – April 2018 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 11 days 8 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

Examples

Entries

I want to be in this competition.

2018 – April – Aircraft

The new challenge features Aircraft: Airplanes, helicopters, balloons, zeppelins, hang glider, paragliders, etc.

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 April 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. April 2018 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 11 days 8 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

Examples

  • E-2C VAW-115 CV-63 2007.JPEG
  • P-51 Mustang edit1.jpg
  • Blériot XI Thulin A Mikael Carlson OTT 2013 10 silhouette.jpg
  • Greenland Express Fokker F100 at Lviv International Airport (original).jpg
  • Pilatus Agusta A109 Flug.jpg
  • Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter firing flares over Afghanistan MOD 45158742.jpg
  • Leon hot air balloon festival 2010.jpg
  • Cappadocia Balloon Inflating Wikimedia Commons.JPG
  • Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg
  • Patrouille de France Radom 3 1.JPG
  • V22-Osprey.jpg
  • Parapente - 166.jpg
  • Flying By (3722941513).jpg
  • PEGASOS - panoramio.jpg

Entries

  • Aerophile 5500, the balloon from Villa Borghese gardens, Rome

  • Two Russian military aircrafts in Damascus, Syria

  • Video installation at Munich 1972 massacre momorial in Munich, Germany.

  • Raumfähre Enterprise zu Besuch in Deutschland (Pfingsten 1983).

  • Partenavia Aeroscooter, a 1950s Italian single-seat light aircraft fitted with a two-bladed rotor.

  • The Macchi M.39 was a racing seaplane designed and built by the Italian aircraft company Aeronautica Macchi in 1925–26.

  • The Ansaldo SVA was a family of Italian reconnaissance biplane aircraft of World War I and the decade after.

  • Paragliding ridge soaring

  • Drachen in der Luft
    Kite in the air

  • Propellerturbine einer Antonov An-22
    Turboprop of a Antonov An-22

  • Tragfläche mit Triebwerk einer Boeing 747 (Jumbo Jet)
    ing with engine of a Boeing 747 (Jumbo Jet)

  • Tragfläche mit Sharklet eines Airbus A320-200
    Wing planform with wingtip device of an Airbus A320-200

  • Heißluftballon Stadtwerke Stuttgart über dem Stuttgarter Talkessel

  • Hubschrauber in St. Petersburg am Feiertag. Russland.

  • Flugschau 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russland.

  • Heißluftballon während des Fluges in der Luft.

  • Rettungshubschrauber / Notarzthubschrauber in Sachsen.

  • Electric ultralight VTOL aircraft

  • Aeroplanino di carta

  • MiG-17 on the pedestal - a monument to the pilots born in Makarov, Ukraine

  • The Mi-2 helicopter was installed on the site near the former hangar, and now the department of the history of aviation and cosmonautics. It is an exhibit of the open-air museum of NTUU "KPI", Ukraine

  • Dissambled Antonow An-2

  • Vickers Viscount Type 724 at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

  • MT03 autogyro taking off at Oldenburg-Hatten airstrip, Germany.

  • Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J at Paderborn-Lippstadt airport, Germany.

  • Aircraft in the French Air Museum

  • Aircraft in the French Air Museum

  • Aircraft in the French Air Museum

  • Aircraft in the French Air Museum

  • Swiss Army Helicopter, transporting goods (food and wood) and workers to high alpine huts.

  • Helicopter in the Olympic park

  • New England Balloon Festival

  • Winch launch of a glider on the Friesener Warte in Franconian Switzerland

  • DHC6 takes off from tidal flats

  • Boeing-Stearman VN2S-2 landing at Paderborn-Haxterberg aerodrome, Germany.

  • Quest Kodiak 100 at JadeWeserAirport, Germany.

  • Azores Airlines at PIX, Pico, Portugal

  • SATA at LIS

  • Play equipment at CGN Airport, Germany

  • AgustaWestland (109), finance police helicopter, Italy

  • Aermacchi MB 339 AP.A.N. 'Frecce Tricolori' on the skies of Rome (2017)

  • Breda Nardi NH-500 helicopter of the Carabinieri, Italy

  • Monument to the AN-2 aircraft in Gostomel near Kiev, Ukraine

  • Launch preparation for a hot air balloon

  • Hang Gliding - Point Fermin, California

  • The Baltic Bees

  • Test flight of a drone (in the back yard).

  • US Air Force C-119G Flying Boxcar

  • Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane

  • Heissluftballon und Mond am Himmel über Speyer

  • Eine Douglas DC-3 und zwei Beechcraft 18 während einer Flugschau über Speyer

  • Eine Piper PA-28 im Landeanflug auf den Speyerer Flughafen (EDRY)

  • Eine de Havilland Canada DHC-6 "Twin Otter" der Fluggesellschaft Isles of Scilly Skybus auf dem Flughafen von St. Mary's (EGHE)

  • An Aircraft Flying in The Sunset Glow (might be a Boeing 737)

  • ATR 72 UTair

  • This photo is of one of the water bombers stationed at Jandakot airport during the 2016, Australia Day Perth Air Show

  • Airbus A320 Ural Airlines

  • DJI Drone Phantom 3 4K

  • Three A321 in Harbin Airport

  • A figure of the Patrol of France during a meeting at Pornic, France

  • Acrobatics demonsration under a hot air balloon in Thouars, France

  • Unterseite eines Jumbojets im Technikmuseum Speyer

  • Cockpit windows of a Boeing 747

  • Austrian Airlines Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 boarding at Vienna Airport, Austria

  • US Air Force C-119G Flying Boxcar Aircraft - 817th Troop Carrier Sqdn (M)

  • Machine volante `de Jules Verne (Amiens)

  • Старый самолет

  • Спасательный вертолет

  • Самолет перед посадкой

  • Воздушные шары

  • An airplane at an airport

  • ÖAMTC aircraft Eurocopter EC135 T1 Rettungshubschrauber Christophorus 12 OE-XEM

  • Sikorsky CH-53G der Bundeswehr

2018 – April – Videos: verbs

The new challenge features Videos depicting verbs. You might want to use video2commons or Videoconvert tools for the upload. They change the file format and the second allows rotations of videos if needed.

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 April 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. April 2018 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.
  • Restriction: Videos only are allowed.

There are 11 days 8 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

Examples

Entries

Challenges open for voting

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.


March 2018

Previous challenges

February 2018

Archaeology: Entries • Votes • Scores
Rank 1 2 3
Image Baustelle-Mainverlegung-Archäologie-9220085-2-2PSD.jpg Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Ägypten..Eg2010 1477WI.jpg Pergamonmuseum A.jpg
Title Archaeoligic find near Ebing Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Ägypten. Detail of the Ishtar Gate, eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon,
now in the Pergamonmuseum - Berlin (Germany)
Author Ermell Kora27 Rosapicci
Score 19 18 10
Closed businesses: Entries • Votes • Scores
Rank 1 2 3
Image Palermo B.jpg Slaughterhouse, Varnsdorf, Czech republic.jpg Porto A.jpg
Title A closed hotel in Palermo - Italy The building where used to be a slaughterhouse, Varnsdorf, Czech republic Closed shops in abandoned building in Avenida dos Aliados - Porto (Portugal)
Author Rosapicci Mirek256 Rosapicci
Score 19 16 8

January 2018

Trash and waste management: Entries • Votes • Scores
Rank 1 2 3
Image Shanghai recycling transport bycicle.jpg Number of fruit crates.jpg Waste in Chittagong 03.jpg
Title Trycicle transport in Shanghai Fruit crates ready to be disposed of - Caserta, Italy Cows feeding of the refuse of a vegetable market
in Chittagong (Bangladesh)
Author Ermell Aleco86 Xopolino
Score 43 20 17
Blue: Entries • Votes • Scores
Rank 1 2 3
Image Summit photo Zugspitze.jpg Tokyo blue facade at Nishifukawa Bridge 1074.jpg Blaue Maske Karneval in Venedig.jpg
Title Summit photo Zugspitze, Germany Blue facade of a house in Tokyo Karneval, Italien, Venedig
Author CatalpaSpirit Ermell Anna Saini
Score 22 18 12

2017

Archived to Commons:Photo challenge/Previous/2017.

2016

Archived to Commons:Photo challenge/Previous/2016.

2015

Archived to Commons:Photo challenge/Previous/2015.

2014

Archived to Commons:Photo challenge/Previous/2014.

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