Winners in three categories — Landscape, Lifestyle, and Wildlife — are eligible for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes, including a spot on a Down East Adventures photo workshop, Down East subscriptions and swag, and publication in the magazine.
Submissions and voting are open through September 8. You may submit as many photos in as many categories as you like; simply repeat the submission form after each submission. The entry fee is $10 per photo. Photographers retain the rights to their work. By entering a Down East photo contest, you accept our contest guidelines. Winners will be notified in September 2025, and their work will be published in the December 2025 issue of Down East.
Contest judges include veteran Maine photographers and Down East contributors Peter Ralston and Benjamin Williamson, and Down East photo editor Tara Rice. The judges will select a winner and a runner-up in each category. The contest sponsor, Natural Resources Council of Maine, will select the winner of its Maine Outdoors Prize, and our readers have voted for a Readers’ Choice winner in each category as well.
Winning photographs will be part of a pop-up exhibit hosted by Down East magazine at Waterville Creates on November 7, 2025, in Waterville's First Friday Art Walk.
By entering this photo contest, you confirm acceptance of the guidelines. Winners will be notified in September 2025, and their work will be published in the December 2025 issue of Down East.
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