Indiahikes August 2022 Photo Contest - Open To All

Indiahikes August 2022 Photo Contest - Open To All

Theme: Contrast

Category Photo Contest Trekkers Space

By Jothiranjan

2022-08-06

We are back with the August edition of the Indiahikes Photo Contest, which is open to all. You're welcome to participate no matter which part of the country you are in. You're welcome to share pictures from your Indiahikes treks or treks you have done on your own.

The theme for this month's open photo contest is Contrast

When we think of striking contrasts, our mind immediately goes to photographs where the photographer has played with textures, highlights, shadows, colors, clarity.

A strikingly colourful sunset or a stark silhouette against a snow-clad mountain. It could be a macro shot of a soft flower against a thorny bush. It could be a terrific play of light and shade.

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Composing such shots is not easy. Timing is everything! Being at the right place at the right time, with a little bit of luck. Or it could be purely your skill as a photographer and masterful editing. That’s why, with this month's theme, we want to see how good you are at your art!

Here are the kind of photos we are looking for:

Before sending in your photos, take a look at these:

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This shot, taken at the top of Mt. Chandrashila, captures a lovely contrast of colours. Notice how the sky lights up over the dark foreground. Photo by Vivek Saini

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This is an example of a technically sound picture. Watch how perfectly the light falls on the lone soft cloud. The lighting also makes the grass glitter. A play of light and dark lends character to this photo of the Lidderwat campsite on the Tarsar Marsar trek. Photo by Shreenath

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Here's another brilliant example of how contrast brings out the scale of mountains in the background. It's a photo from the Phulara Ridge trek taken by Nitesh Kumar.

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We have another photo from the Tarsar Marsar trek. The grass in the foreground is bright, glowing in contrast to the dark mountains rising in the background. Photo by Amit Anand

Now that you have a good idea of what we're looking for, run through your archives and share your Top 5 Photographs that depict the theme Contrasts.

We have special prizes for our top 3 photographs :

  • The winner gets a trek voucher of Rs 5,000 with 35 litres backpack by Adventure Worx.
  • The Runner up gets a trek voucher of Rs 3,000 with Paany bottle
  • Trekkers Choice Award gets a trek voucher of Rs 2,000 along with surprise Indiahikes merchandise. The photo that wins the highest votes out of our Top10 nominations will be the Trekkers choice award
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Contest rules & how to enter :

1. You can submit maximum of 5 photos

2. The size of each photograph should not exceed maximum of 10 MB

3. Please name your photos in the following format

“Trek name – Your name – Caption”

For eg. “Buran Ghati - Aditya Ramesh - A view of the Litham Campsite"

Regarding copyright: Copyright for all images submitted as a participant remains with the respective photographers. However, each photographer grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual license to Indiahikes to feature any or all of the submitted images in any of their publications, their websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition (with due credit).

The last date for entries is on August 25th, 2022 at 11.59 pm.

We will announce the nominations on our website on August 29th, 2022 and the winners on September 1st, 2022.

PLEASE NOTE: If the above conditions are not met, we will not be considering your photos for the contest.

Send your top 5 photos through this link

The last date for entries is 25th August, 2022.

Looking forward to seeing your best photographs!

Jothiranjan

Head Photographer

About the author

Jothiranjan is a National Award Winning wildlife and landscape photographer with over 8 years of experience. He has spent several years documenting animal and bird life in the remotest forest reserves of India. He joined Indiahikes with a keen interest to document the trekking world like nobody has before. He has been successfully pursuing his thirst for adventure and trek photography since 2021, gaining the priceless skill of adventure photography as he grows.