Arbor Month Photo Contest 2025

Matt Hansen

Arbor Month Photo Contest

Trees provide many benefits to Oregon’s communities. They clean our air and water, save energy, raise property values, foster neighborhood pride, provide wildlife habitat, revitalize neighborhoods, and create an inviting outdoor environment for people to play, exercise, and socialize. Submit your photo to help us remind us that trees are not just beautiful, but also beneficial!

Rules

  • All photos must be of a tree or stand of trees within the City of Tualatin.
  • Contest open to all photographers.
  • Officers, agents and employees of the City of Tualatin are excluded from this contest.
  • An individual may submit one photograph.
  • Each photograph must be submitted with a completed and signed Photograph Submission & Release Form.
  • If the photographer is under eighteen (18), a parent or legal guardian must complete and sign the form.
  • Photos that include a recognizable person or people also require written permission from those individuals.
  • Photographs cannot include borders, frames, dates, watermarks, signatures, or copyright images.
  • Digital enhancements for minor cropping, contrast, saturation, or red-eye removal are allowed, but significant enhancements or manipulations will be disqualified.
  • Submissions must be submitted through the City of Tualatin website.
  • ARBOR WEEK PHOTO CONTEST must be in subject line.
  • File format must be JPEG or PNG
  • File size must not exceed 10M
  • All submissions must be received by March 1, 2025.

How to Submit a Photograph
Entry may be submitted online below.

The City of Tualatin reserves the right to crop photographs as necessary. The photographer allows the City of Tualatin non-exclusive rights to use and publish the photograph on City of Tualatin websites, in publications, press releases, brochures, or displays to promote Tualatin Arbor Week and urban forestry in Tualatin.

Judging
All submissions will be screened for acceptability. Acceptable submissions will be judged by panel. The decisions of the judges are final.

Prizes
The first place winner will receive a $100 cash prize, the second place winner will receive a $75 cash prize, and the third place winner will receive a $50 cash prize. The winning photographs will be posted to the City of Tualatin website and shared on City of Tualatin social media during Arbor Month.

Conditions
City of Tualatin reserves the right to change the rules of the Arbor Week photo contest as necessary. Any rule changes will be posted on the City of Tualatin Arbor Week web page.

For more information about Arbor Month activities visit the Arbor Month page.

 

Files must be less than 10 MB.
Allowed file types: gif jpg jpeg png pdf doc docx.
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