2024 Oceania Photo Contest is now open
TNC Australia’s nature photo contest is back with more than $14,000 prizes up for grabs. Share your pics and enter the contest, which will run from September 18 until November 8, 2024. Read the T&C's for details.
Oceania is an extraordinary region, with many of its species found nowhere else on Earth. We’re on the lookout for images that help capture the vibrance and vulnerability of its incredible wildlife, landscapes and ecosystems.
Whether you’re an amateur, a budding enthusiast or a total pro, all photographers have an important role to play in showcasing the power and peril of the natural world, and allowing us to reflect on the role we all have to play in safeguarding its future.
Categories
With six exciting categories to enter you’ll be in with a shot no matter your preferred style or subject matter:
- Oceans
- Lands
- Climate
- People & Nature
- Plants & Fungi
- Wildlife
Prizes
The Grand Prize for Overall Winning Entry is a $5,000 Gift Card.
Additonally, there are prizes for each category:
- Oceans Category – (Gift Cards) 1st Prize: $750 / 2nd Prize: $500 / 3rd Prize: $250
- Lands Category – (Gift Cards) 1st Prize: $750 / 2nd Prize: $500 / 3rd Prize: $250
- Climate Category – (Gift Cards) 1st Prize: $750 / 2nd Prize: $500 / 3rd Prize: $250
- People & Nature Category – (Gift Cards) 1st Prize: $750 / 2nd Prize: $500 / 3rd Prize: $250
- Plants & Fungi Category – (Gift Cards) 1st Prize: $750 / 2nd Prize: $500 / 3rd Prize: $250
- Wildlife Category – (Gift Cards) 1st Prize: $750 / 2nd Prize: $500 / 3rd Prize: $250
Entry is free – so submit your best shots now for your chance to win! (Entries open to residents of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands).
Past Global Photo Contest Winners
Between the Stars: I photographed this moment underwater. I was able to do it by putting my camera in an underwater case, attaching it to a metal weight and placing it all under the eggs. I waited nearby for it to be dark, and when the newt appeared, I lit it with an LED lamp. I started the camera with a home-made wired remote release. It turned out 1-2 sharp pictures. © Litauszki Tibor/TNC Photo Contest 2023
Dawn's Whispers: Graceful Hoopoe Silhouette at Sunrise: A Hoopoe took flight with its wings spread in a smooth motion across the canvas of the early-morning sky that was illuminated by the sunrise's bright hues.I saw that this bird would occasionally grab its prey in the air and other times on the ground. Additionally, I observed that each time it caught a prey, it flew in the same direction to a nearby tree. © Hermis Haridas/TNC Photo Contest 2023
Living inside the yellow fields: Aerial perspective of a small settlement of the city of Swidnica, surrounded by beautiful rapeseed fields. © Agnieszka Wieczorek/TNC Photo Contest 2023
Magadi Airshow: The alkaline Lake Magadi provides breathtaking patterns on the surface of the lake to photograph flamingos. Lake Magadi, Kenya 12 Sept, 2023. © Neelutpaul Barua/TNC Photo Contest 2023
Black and White: Drone photo of a creek during a snowstorm, Salisbury Mills, New York © Derek Robertson/TNC Photo Contest 2023
Branching Out : On either side of a highway, gullies formed by rainwater erosion span out like a tree in Tibet, an autonomous region in southwest China. © Li Ping/TNC Photo Contest 2022
An Unforgiving kingdom: A leopard known as Olimba carries the carcass of a female vervet monkey with its baby still hanging on for dear life. Picture taken in South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. © Shafeeq Mulla/TNC Photo Contest
Breastfeeding in town: A female polar bear breastfeeding her two cubs of the year in the harbour of the abandoned Russian settlement, Pyramiden. © Florian Ledoux/TNC Photo Contest
Adi: Slope of Mount Adi, in Navarra. © Francisco Javier Munuera González/TNC Photo Contest
Mystical Bromo: Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (TNBTS) is one of the 10 priority tourist destinations in Indonesia. © Hendy Wicaksono/TNC Photo Contest
Malui: Western lowland gorilla female 'Malui' walking through a cloud of butterflies she has disturbed in a bai. Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011. © Anup Shah/TNC Photo Contest 2021
Fireflies: Just before Monsoon, these fireflies congregate in certain regions of India and on a few special trees like this one, they are in crazy quantity which can range in millions. © Prathamesh Ghadekar/TNC Photo Contest 2021
Drought: Carcass of a Pantanal alligator (Caiman yacare) in the dry soil on the banks of the Transpantaneira highway, municipality of Poconé (Mato Grosso). © Daniel De Granville Manço/TNC Photo Contest 2021
Serra do Mar: In a helicopter flight through the sea mountain range, I came across this white cloud cover, which resulted in this magnificent image that resembles the head of a dinosaur. © Denis Ferreira Netto/TNC Photo Contest 2021
Salt Ponds: If you have flown into San Francisco International Airport, you may have seen these colorful salt ponds over the bay. This aerial image was taken while flying my plane. © Jassen Todorov/TNC Photo Contest 2021
Burst: California sea lion framed by kelp beds in Monterey Bay, California. Grand Prize Winner for 2019 TNC Global Photo Contest. © Tyler Schiffman/TNC Photo Contest 2019
Wanayo Waterfall: A small waterfall and stream in Wasior, West Papua. © Diyanto Sarira/TNC Photo Contest 2019
Hope: Polar Bear in Svalbard, Norway June 2019. © Fernando O’Farrill/TNC Photo Contest 2019
Singing Silhouette: A Chestnut-sided Warbler sings out. © Raymond Hennessy/TNC Photo Contest 2019
The Grevy's Illusion : A Grevy's zebra staring at the camera in Lewa, Kenya. © YARON SCHMID/TNC Photo Contest 2019
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