Hi Folks,
Here is an Astro-Landscape competition for you. 28 Days to go, so start clickin' >>>
http://twanight.org/newTwan/news.asp?newsID=6110
Best
JA
From page:
The on-line “Earth and Sky” photo contest is open for submission by any photography enthusiasts of any age from around the world. International projects The World at Night and Global Astronomy Month along with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory are the organizers of the Earth and Sky Photo Contest. The contest was founded by TWAN and Dark Skies Awareness project in 2008 as a regional program. It was expanded to an international effort in 2009-2010 during the International Year of Astronomy. The contest news is usually broadcasted by major science and art news media world-wide and the winning images are widely promoted. With the growing impact of TWAN on both photography and astronomy communities along with the efforts of Astronomers Without Borders (AWB), the organization behind the Global Astronomy Month (GAM), the Earth and Sky Photo Contest will have an even larger feedback this year.
The contest entries should be fresh images, taken since January 1, 2016. They must be created in the "TWAN style" -- showing both the Earth and the sky -- by combining elements of the night sky (e.g., stars, planets, the Moon or celestial events) in the backdrop of a beautiful, historic, or notable location or landmark. This style of photography is called “landscape astrophotography''. This is within "Nightscape Photography" but with more attention to the sky, astronomical perspectives, and celestial phenomena.
The contest theme, “Dark Skies Importance,” has two categories: “Beauty of the Night Sky” and “Against the Lights.” There will be three winners in each category. Photos submitted to the contest should aim to address either category: either to impress people on how important and amazing the starry sky is or to impress people on how bad the problem of light pollution has become. Both categories illustrate how light pollution affects our lives. Photographers can submit images to one or both categories. The contest organizers encourage participants to view examples of winning photos in the previous years: the 2016 winners, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010. The winners of this year contest will be announced in early June 2017.
