Monthly Wild Embassy Photo Contest
PRIZE WINNINGS: $1,000 (Per Winner Per Month)
There is nothing more powerful than bringing human and nature together then in an interactive way to build the relationship between the two. We’re making every effort to get our ambassadors outdoors and truly connected with the wild world around us. In order to encourage that relationship with the great outdoors, we wanted to introduce an exciting contest into our program. To help persuade our ambassadors to not only talk about nature, but to get outside and have personal experiences with it as well.
To support our mission to get our ambassadors outdoors and exploring our wild world, we’re hosting monthly and annual photo contests for wildlife and nature images. Please follow the instructions and guidelines below to enter the contest.
Contest Rules, Please Read Carefully:
There are no costs or fees to enter into the program. However, contestants must be an active Wild Embassy ambassador to be able to participate and win the prize. This contest was curated around our ambassadors and we reserve the winnings for active ambassadors to celebrate the incredible community supporting our conservation efforts.
Contestants must be 18 or older to participate. However, legal guardians or parents can enter their children’s photo into the contest and will be responsible for collecting the prize earnings and distributing to your minor. We love encouraging children to get out into nature and this can be a great way for your child to participate.
Photos MUST be your own. You must have physically taken the photo in order to qualify for the winnings. Sending in stock photos or stolen images is an immediate disqualification from the contest. In today’s modern technology, it is easy to verify photo credibility. We are emphasizing this note only because we have had stock photo submissions in the past that do not qualify.
Photos MUST be of a wild animal or a photograph of nature. Photos cannot be of pets, cities, neighborhoods, farm animals, etc. Examples can be a photo of a beach, the mountains, the forest, a still shot of a flower or a mushroom, photos of deer, birds, other wildlife, etc. Photos submitted that do not meet our wildlife and nature guidelines do not qualify for the earnings.
Only one photo can be submitted per month per person. If you submit multiple photos, we will only select the first image in the email and use that for the contest. Please submit your favorite image to enter into the program.
Monthly winners cannot submit a photo for a following month for that year. For example, if you win January of 2023, you cannot submit photos for the remainder of 2023. You can however submit photos again in 2024 or following years.
Submissions for that month must be sent in by the 25th. For example, prize winners for January 2023 need to have their photo emailed in by January 25th, 2023. We will then pick the best photo on the last day of the month and announce our winner on our Facebook page and through email. If you submit any images after the 25th of the month, they will be entered into the following month’s contest.
There are no specific guidelines that we are looking for in relation to the image outside of the requirement that it needs to be of nature or wildlife. However, to increase your opportunity to win, we recommend submitting unique shots that are high quality. Blurry, overly pixelated images are unlikely to win. We choose our winners by the most creative and unique photo.
Images are selected by a hand-selected board of 10 industry experts and professionals. Images are carefully narrowed down through our selection process until we have unanimously voted on the top photo.
Payouts will be made on the same day we announce our winner. We reserve the right to decide how payouts will be processed, but will most likely make payments via PayPal, CashApp, or check.
If the winner does not claim their prize and communicate the account they would like payment made to within 14 business days, we will select the second place winner for the prize earnings for that month.
How To Submit Your Photo:
Please submit your photo by the 25th of the month to hello@caledoniaforest.com (Please verify you enter in the correct email and there are not typos.
Photo must NOT be attached as a zip file, but must be submitted either in JPEG, JPG, PNG, or PDF format. Strange files will not be opened. Submissions by strange email accounts will not be opened.
Photo Ownership & Use
When submitting a photo into the Wild Embassy contest, you are agreeing to give us permission for use of the photo on our website, on our social media pages, and other digital and print marketing campaigns. We will use this photo to showcase our winners and their submissions. However, you will have full rights and ownership of your photo. Our use of the image will be in promotional campaigns to celebrate our winners and educate about our contest. We will not sell your image or use it any way outside of it relating to our contest.