For the final photography contest of the year, we want to see your best images taken in 2024! There isn't going to be a specific genre for our December contest so anything goes as long as it's one of your favorite or most successful images of the year. Of course it must have been taken or published for the first time in 2024.
Rules
- This contest is 100% free to join
- Each photographer may submit up to 3 images
- Each photograph must include a small description that includes details about how the photograph was taken, what post processing was done to it, where it was taken, and why it was your best image taken in 2024. Simply writing a single sentence that doesn't explain much of anything will disqualify you from being chosen!
- These images must have been taken or published for the first time in 2024
Prizes
Fstoppers is excited to be giving away some amazing photography related gear for each of these critique the community contests. For December's critique we are mixing it up a little bit.
All Picked Submissions will Received the Follow Prizes!
To celebrate the launch of Lee Morris's hot sauce, each image featured in the next Critique the Community will receive a free bottle of Oliveum Hot Sauce. For anyone who has followed Fstoppers over the last few years, you have probably heard the story of Lee's journey into the hot sauce world. Today marks the first time the public can purchase a smaller, more affordable 3.3 oz bottle.
Also, every photograph featured in the next Critique the Community will also receive a free Fstoppers Photography Tutorial from Fstoppers.com/store.
We are excited to see some of the best images created by the Fstoppers Community and we look forward to heading into the new year with a bang!
Featured image taken by the incredible Richard Johnson
Thank you for this awesome year, guys!
By saying that the photo has to be published for the first time in 2024, it means on Fstoppers site or anywhere, including IG, for example?
Ever. You can't have an awesome image you took 5 years ago and claim it to be published today on Fstoppers for the first time. If you took it 5 years ago and did nothing with it but published it in 2024 on your website or delivered it to a client or added it to a book you published this year then it can counted. It just needs to be something you've never shown anyone publicly until 2024.
Obviously, it would be hard to call anyone out on this stuff. But isn't the point that these images should be 'shot in 2024'? as in exif data in 2024... just saying. The contest does say "your best image 'taken' in 2024". But it's all an honor system mostly, I don't think they can call you out on it, unless you happen to be taking a photo of something with a 'Clock' or of something that happens to give away a time-sensitive object.
I agree. It seems ridiculous to call it a "Best of 2024" contest and then allow images that were not taken in 2024 and have them compete against images that were taken in 2024.
Great. Thanks.
Wait... are you saying that the photos
A) have NEVER been posted before on any sites or social media?
B) Were shot between January 1st, 2024 and December 30th, 2024
Or
C) that the photo has never been posted before, regardless of what year it was take?
Oooor ... All of the ABOVE! ;)
thanks 2024! lot of great things and achievement in this year. more to come!!!
I'm curious to know what Lee's and Patrick's best photos are of 2024.
Anyone else struggling trying to pick their favorite/best images to enter?
What a great year 2024 has been for photography, especially for me as an amatuer! Subjects ranging from the Great American Eclipse of 2024, first time to see and photograph the Northern Lights, 3 week Alaskan Adventure, Antelope Canyon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and a myriad of Zoo Animals.So many highlights I'm sure I'm not naming all of them!
For me this is a difficult task to narrow it down to 3, even if they are amatuer images, they are special to me - perhaps that is why we call it a "passion"!
I haven't been to that many great locations, but I still really struggled to decide what I should enter! I think I deleted and uploaded other photos 3 or 4 times, so now I'm stuck with the 3 I finally ended up with :P
With you on that one Frank. You certainly get around by the way! How much should we be influenced by the star ratings that others give us I wonder? Do you know what I like most about this months contest over all the others? It is that every entry fits the subject (theme), whereas SO OFTEN when watching the judging videos I say to myself "WHAT HAS THAT PHOTO GOT TO DO WITH THE SET SUBJECT?"
If you want some suggestions, I'd say your photo of the snow leopard, the comet, and the Starlink launch stand out the most.
Thanks Ed!
Is it possible to change or delete one pic that I already uploaded? I can not do it. Thanks and happy Christmas!
Click on the 3 dots in the top right corner
Many thanks! I couldn't find the dots by using the mobile view. Now, I got it.
good idea