Criteria
Judges will base their decisions on the following qualities: focus, lighting composition, impact, creativity, and storytelling. Photographs may be color or black and white. Photographs may be either vertical or horizontal. Minor digital enhancements for cropping, red-eye removal, filters and corrective functions are permitted, but images that have been altered significantly will be disqualified. Contestants are not permitted to place borders, frames or backgrounds around their images or to place watermarks, dates, signatures or copyright images onto photos.