2011 International Best Picture Competition – First Place. Chiajna Monastery near Bucharest.
Mihai Petre (CC-BY-SA)
Participants will compete in the United States Best Picture competition, and the top 10 photos will then compete in the International Best Picture Competition along with the top 10 winners from other countries.
United States Best Picture Prizes
- First Place – $700 cash
- Second Place – $500 cash
- Third Place – $300 cash
International Best Picture Prizes
2011 International Best Picture Competition – 12th Place. Ceiling of the Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles by -donald- (CC-BY-SA)
- First Place - a photo trip to Hong Kong during Wikimania (max. value 2,000 euros)
- 2nd-10th Places – monetary awards ranging from 400 to 50 euros
There will also be a special award at the International Competition for the Best Picture of a GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, or Museum). The British word “gallery” is used here to mean an art museum.
The decisions of the organizers and juries are final. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. The organizers reserve the right to cancel the contest or modify the rules at their sole discretion.
Keep up the GREAT WORK. I love Wikipedia.
Thanks. Keep on sending us your freely licensed photos and we’ll love all of you too!
beauty is Our world. A chance to explore Our world is a Gift. I came across this site in search for ways through international services transform into an entity of Our world. to travel is networking at its best to explore is an experience sort of like worlds vision.
I agree. Everybody with a camera send your free content to them so that everybody on the planet can use them to on their websites and to sell products. That way, there will be no need for those pesky professional photographers.
sour, you make a fair point. When amateurs are willing to give away their work for free, it may hurt the market for professionals. The hope is that the benefit to all people, everywhere, will be enough to offset the loss to a few individuals. And as always, professionals have the ability to practice their craft so that they are able to provide something that amateurs cannot. As for the argument that some businesses will make use of this free content to make a profit, yes, that is one of the ways that we can tell that the public domain is indeed valuable, the fact that individuals and businesses can obtain value from it. Once again, if professional artists and photographers can provide something special that goes beyond what the commons of public domain can provide, then they can still sell their work and do well. I believe that the net result of bringing more people into the creative class will be positive for the world. Your objections are noted, but they need not derail the whole project.
wow.
Love the pics, thanks Wikipedia…again…look forward to more.
I love pictures, but I’m not good at taking them. But I will try!
Why not try?! What have you got to lose? You might even learn something about photography, architecture, or history.
This has nothing to do with the contest, I’m curious about photos that individual take that are digital do you know if they are copyrighted in anyway. I had a person take a photo of mine and use it without my permission, are their any laws to protect orginial photo owners?
Digital photos are like any other form of expression these days, they are automatically copyrighted. When you upload during this contest, you are agreeing to license the photo CC-BY-SA, which lets anybody use the photo if they attribute the photo to you.
If anybody uploads one of your photos here without your permission, please let us know and we will take care of it.
Thanks for your question
i hunger for a chance to explore Our world. I will be an entity the sight behind world vision and productivity through beauty. How can i get closer to community and self development?
Wow.
Join a garden club or become a member of an art community – visual art, poetry, music, dance, etc.
Good luck. Glad to hear that entities are visiting Our world. Welcome. We could use some higher beings w good will that are in love w beauty, as many as we can get. Hope you have a wonderful life here. Enjoy!
Not automatically copyrighted. There is fine line there. Its best to take an extra step and copyright your photos. The second amendment allows for use in certain scenarios as well. Make sure you read up on the laws just to be sure.
this is great_curry.
“voucher for photographic purchases” – What does that mean exactly? Is it a gift certificate to somewhere?
OK, we’ll send you a check.
well to me this is a great idea because it gives everybody a chance to look at photos and other things like that soo…………yeah
-barbra rhett
this is a great idea………….
is there an entry fee?
$0.00
In short, absolutely not.
I hope that we can continue to contribute photos after the contest to build up the database.
Please do. We’ve got roughly half of the 87,000+ NRHP sites photographed, so there are still many sites left to go. Better photos of previously photographed sites are always appreciated. Historic districts are not covered as well as they should be yet.
You probably won’t be able to use the upload button on the county tables after the contest, though. Just go to Commons and click the “Upload file” link in the left hand column, and you should recognize much of the upload form. Please fill in the description from the information in the county tables and from your own observations.
You might even want to start writing or updating the articles on Wikipedia on the sites you photograph.
Is the contest open to people outside the United States?
Absolutely! Of course, to upload photos for the Wiki Loves Monuments – United States contest, the subject of your photos have to be American, on the NRHP list.
But we are part of an international contest. See http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org for a list of the 34 other countries participating.
Yay! Thanks for the reply.
Please make searching and viewing of pictures easier if possible
Properly categorizing all these photos will take some time.
To view a larger size of the photo, just click on the photo, either in Wikipedia or in Commons.
But if you want to see all of your own uploads in Commons, click the “My uploads” link in the upper right hand corner (be careful – its right next to the “Log out” link).
If you want to see all the 16,600 photos uploaded so far, go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_the_United_States
Note that there is an alphabetical index near the top of the page.
If you want to see all the files from a particular area, I’d start at a county list page on Wikipedia. Just click one of the photos and you’ll go to the picture’s page on Wikipedia. Click through to the picture’s page on Commons. Look at all the categories at the very bottom of this page and select the one that is closest to what you want. No guarantee that the cataloguing is finished at this point however.
This is great. I am super glad that wikipedia is putting together this image collection.