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Challenges Currently Open for Submissions
Challenge:Earth Day
Type:Open Speed Challenge Open Speed Challenge
Rules:Extended Editing
Submission Deadline:Saturday, April 25th, 2026
Description:Show us what Earth Day means to you or how you celebrate the earth.
Extra Rules:96 Hour Speed Challenge! Extended Editing.
Submissions:18
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Challenge:Dirt II
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Submission Deadline:Sunday, April 26th, 2026
Description:N/A
Submissions:10
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Challenge:Deep DOF VI
Type:Open Challenge Open Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Submission Deadline:Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Description:Take control of your aperture this week and photograph a scene where everything is in focus.
Submissions:8
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Challenge:In the Kitchen
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Submission Deadline:Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Description:N/A
Submissions:1
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Challenge:Free Study 2026-04
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Submission Deadline:Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Description:Free Study for April, 2026.
Submissions:15
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Challenge:Motion Panning VII
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Submission Deadline:Sunday, May 3rd, 2026
Description:In still photography, motion panning is a technique used mostly to freeze a moving object whilst allowing motion blur in the (stationary) background. The desired result is usually a well-depicted, sharp subject in an almost impressionistic sea of blurred lines and colors.
Submissions:2
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Challenge:Best Friends III (Archival)
Type:Open Challenge Open Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Submission Deadline:Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Description:Your challenge this week is to make the special relationship of "Best Friends" come through in your photo.
Extra Rules:Archival
Submissions:7
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Challenge:Sports VIII
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Submission Deadline:Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Description:Capture the action of any sport, recreational or professional.
Submissions:0
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Challenge:Extended Free Study 2026-04
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Extended Editing
Submission Deadline:Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Description:Extended Free Study for April, 2026.
Submissions:2
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Challenges Currently Awaiting Your Votes
Challenge:Cubism II
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Voting Deadline:Monday, April 27th, 2026
Description:Cubism was a 20th-century avant-garde artistic movement that revolutionized the art world. Painters such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Juan Gris embraced this new artistic sensibility. Create your own cubist photograph.
Submissions:25
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Challenge:Contre-Jour VIII
Type:Open Challenge Open Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Voting Deadline:Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Description:Contre-jour is a photographic term that means 'against the light' and refers to pictures taken when the camera is pointing towards (or roughly towards) the main light source. Capture a photo using this technique.
Submissions:33
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Challenge:Art in the Incidental II
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Voting Deadline:Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Description:It shows up where you least expect it; hunt some down and bring it home :-)
Submissions:31
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Recently Completed Challenges
Challenge:Fine Arts: Exhibit VII
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Description:Use a camera and your processing skills to make some art :-)
Submissions:33
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Challenge:Micro Worlds
Type:Open Challenge Open Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Description:Brief: Capture the unseen beauty of tiny details - insects, moss, textures, everyday objects magnified, etc.
Tips: Use macro lenses or close‑up filters. Look for surprising details in ordinary items.
Examples: Ant trails, dew drops on grass, fabric weave.
Submissions:29
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Challenge:Extended Free Study 2026-03
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Extended Editing
Description:Extended Free Study for March, 2026.
Submissions:29
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Challenge:Umbrella IV
Type:Member Challenge Member Challenge
Rules:Standard Editing
Description:Not only the kind you use on a rainy day but any kind. Use your creativity and take a picture that somehow includes one or more umbrellas.
Submissions:18
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