Winter 2023 Competition Theme: Three Open and High-Low Key Start date: January 1, 2023 End date: January 31, 2023 Judging starts: February 6, 2023 Judging ends: February 13, 2023 The Winter 2023 Competition will include the Color, Monochrome and Creative open categories, and a theme category “High or Low Key” High key photography is a style of photography that uses unusually bright lighting to reduce or completely blow out dark shadows in the image. High key shots usually lack dark tones and the high key look is generally thought of as positive and upbeat. Low key photographs are underlit images that feature dramatic contrast and dark colors. Note that entries in the High or Low Key theme category can be color, monochrome or creative. Competition Rules and Guidelines can be found here Click Here to Enter Current Entries The (Dark Side of) Moon and Stars Conjoined Wood Grain Caught! The Chosen Path A Mouthful Blooming Thistle Beach Sentinel Moonset at Destructed Pier Portrait Moon on a Foggy Morning North Pacific Sunset Eye Contact Alstomeria Sea Clef A SHADOW FIGURE Spider Man Are You Talking to Me Eastern Meadowlark Sisters Flamingo Flying into the Sunset Peek-A-Boo Fortress Segovia, Spain Agitated Cruising for dinner Scanning for Breakfast Stranger Things Woodstork Lone Rider Riding at Dawn I’ll Protect You Mom A Mouth Full Proud Pelican The Look Miami Beach Babe Miami Muscle Man Beata Beauty Brooklyn Skyway We Miss You! Blue Boat Reflection Joy Magical Wheel March of the Reflections Your Looking At Me Storm Approaching An Orchid Pearl High Speed Sushi South Beach Downy Woodpecker Flamingo Rose Fluffy Duo Sania A BOATER’S DREAM WAITING FOR LAUNCH WHAT GRANDMA SAW PEACEFUL SILENCE Water Buffalo Parrot Stretching Its Wings Gorilla Watching the Crowd Sandhill Crane Buttercup Together is Better Bedazzle Rosy Dawn Sunset Shadows Icelandic Church Maroon Bells Sunset Blue Hour Moon Receding Tide Waiting Many Mirasol Crafty Croc MISSED OPPORTUNITY SLIPPERY SLOPE Brrr YOUR GOING TO BE A DAD Splashing The Day Away Celestial Wonder In Harmony With Nature Glacier Ice Isabella The Black Knight Living in the Shadow Portrait of a Fox Lake Pepin Sunrise Watch your step Coming at cha! Saddle Me Up Spoonbill Wyoming Sunset Jordon Pond Staredown Lurker Sacre Coeur River of Sand Petit Dejeuner Otherworldly Cloudy With A Chance Of Love Dinner Time Blue Eyed Beauty Tampa At Night Mr. Brown’s Barn Desert Dawn Misty Morning on Moose Pond First Door on the Left Broken Lisa Platform Deep Breathing Morning Prayers Glowing From the Dark Backyard Beauty Colombian Gulp Andes Buff Inca Glow Walk On By IF LOOKS COULD KILL THE DOMINO EFFECT Lightfall Once a Ballerina Double Axel YMCA! Missed! Window in Giverny Quiet Zone Souriez! (Say Cheese!) Follow the Path Photographing the Milky Way Road to Paradise (NZ) High Key Reflections High Key Tree Snug Hidden bracelets up, up and away Stargate mountain high Standing Their Ground Torres Del Paines Swirling Cloud In the Fishing Maze Merced River View Cloudy Classic Game of Thrones Moody Micah Lost in the Big City Ghostly Cypress Going Out Fiery Swamp Sunset White Shadow The Ring Three Gannets Sheets In The Wind Sarasota Park Marco Sunset Myakka River Park Ivory Gulls Maternal confict View Traditional Color Entries View Traditional Mono Entries View Creative Entries View Special Category (High or Low Key) Entries