Wildlife Photography Contest and Prizes Up to $40,000 from Pangolin

Pangolin invites photographers around the world to participate in its Wildlife Photography Contest.

This Pangolin Photo Challenge 2021 is divided into four challenges – Birds of the World, Black and White, Mammal Behavior and Creative Captures.

Each challenge has a theme or subject which is explained in full on each of the relevant entry pages for that challenge. Once you have registered and made your donation your account will be live and you can enter your images into each of the challenges. You can enter only one image into each category and the image must have been taken by you in 2021. When each challenge closes the judge will take approximately 2 weeks to go through the images and select a winner and runner up for the challenge.

If you have entered all of the challenges throughout the year you will have a portfolio of four images – one from each of the challenges which will be submitted to the judges. Only portfolios containing four images will be considered for this prize.

Throughout the year, you will be able to vote for your favourite images and encourage your friends and family to do the same. The People’s Vote will close 7 days after the Challenge closes and 7 days before we announce the Challenge winner and runner up.

4 x Challenge Winner Prizes

• Five days at The Pangolin Chobe Hotel for two people. Valued over $4000
• 4 nights at the Pangolin Chobe Hotel (Full board)
• Twice daily photo activities in The Chobe (Photo Boat and Game viewer)
• All meals and drinks
• Advice and assistance from The Pangolin Photo Hosts
• Afternoon image review and editing sessions
• Airport pick up and transfers from Kasane Airport
• All Park fees, bed levies and taxes
• A limited-edition Pangolin Body Warmer

4 x Challenge Runner-up Prizes

• Pangolin Photo Safaris Voucher for $2000 + A Pangolin Body Warmer

4 x People’s Vote Prizes (one per challenge)

• Pangolin Photo Safaris Voucher for $1000 + A Pangolin Body Warmer

Winner of the Pangolin Photo Challenge 2021 Best Portfolio

• 10-day Chobe, Delta and Kalahari Safari for two people. Valued at $20,000
• 3 nights on The Pangolin Voyager Houseboat
• Charter flights courtesy of Mack Air and Safari Air
• 3 nights at The Pangolin Photo Camp
• 3 nights at Ker and Downey’s Dinaka
• All meals, drinks, park fees, bed levies and taxes
• Limited edition Pangolin Body Warmer

1 Lucky Prize Draw – every image entered (max 4) is a ticket to the draw.

• The winner of The Lucky Prize Draw wins
• Five days at The Pangolin Chobe Hotel for two people. Valued over $4000
• 4 nights at the Pangolin Chobe Hotel (Full board)
• Twice daily photo activities in The Chobe (Photo Boat and Game viewer)
• All meals and drinks
• Advice and assistance from The Pangolin Photo Host
• Afternoon image review and editing sessions
• Airport pick up and transfers from Kasane Airport
• All Park fees, bed levies and taxes
• A limited-edition Pangolin Body Warmer

• The Challenge is open to everyone, from any country with the following 2 exceptions.
• You may not be:
• Employees of Pangolin Photo Safaris and their immediate relatives/household.
• All Photo Safari Operators and Guides who make the use of Pangolin Photo Safaris properties and services.
• The submitted image must have been taken in 2021. The metadata of the file will be inspected to ensure qualification. The capture date will be published on the website along with the image. Please make sure when you export your image from your editing programme of choice that you select to include the Meta (aka Exif) data with the image.
• All images should be a faithful representation of the original scene in the natural world. The subject should be wild and not captive. The scene should not be staged for photography. Composite images will not be allowed (except for night photography images). Post-production adjustments can be used but excessive use will count against the image’s overall standing with the judges.
• The judges may request the original image file for review when the shortlist has been completed.
• An image that has previously won a national or international nature photography competition prior to The Pangolin Photo Challenge will NOT be considered. If chosen as a winning image and later found to be in contravention of this rule it will be disqualified.
• The judges reserve the right to refuse photos that they deem unsuitable at their discretion. The image must be the sole property of the submitter and have no third-party publishing rights/restriction attached to them.
• Your images must be submitted as jpeg files without a watermark.
• The owners of the winning images give permission for their image to be used for the purposes of promoting the Pangolin Photo Challenge.

About Pangolin:

Pangolin Photo Safaris was born out of the principle that these days “Everyone Is a Photographer”. The site offers photography tools from cameras and others as well as photography guides for wildlife photographers of all levels.

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