Sarah Yeoman | 4-minute read
1000 Friends of Oregon is hosting a photo contest to showcase the state’s iconic farms, ranches, timberlands, and the people who steward them. We encourage photographers across the state—amateur, professional, and hobbyist—to submit images that celebrate Oregon’s working lands.
The Working Lands Photo Contest is open for entries starting September 15, 2025 and closes October 17, 2025.
What we're looking for
Beautiful, inspiring, impactful, and/or unique images of farms, timberlands, ranches, urban farms, and the people who work them. Images of barns, equipment, animals, and people in action working the land are all welcome.
What we’re not looking for: Images from national or state parks, recreational spaces, nature photography, or wild places. While 1000 Friends of Oregon works in environmental stewardship and conservation, this contest aims to specifically highlight farms, ranches, and other working lands. However, nature and farms are not separate entities. Images may depict the overlap of nature and working lands, as long as a working landscape is the focus. For example: An elk herd traversing over a fenced field, birds nesting in an orchard, etc. Please submit your image with a caption clearly stating that the image was taken on a ranch, farm, timberland, or other working land.
Prizes
One grand-prize winner will be featured on our special statewide postcard, which is mailed to our members across Oregon. The winner’s image will also be featured on our social media channels, website, and annual report.
Thanks to generous sponsorship from Tamron, the grand-prize winner will also receive a new Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD All-in-One Zoom lens valued at $699. The lens will be shipped directly from Tamron in the camera mount of the winner’s choice (available for Canon RF mount, FUJIFILM X-mount, Nikon Z mount, Sony E-mount).
Finally, the grand-prize winner will receive a pair of Portland Timbers tickets for a game in the 2026 season.
One first-place winner will receive a pair of Portland Timbers or Portland Thorns tickets for the 2026 season.
The top five photos will be featured on our website and social media.
Who can enter
The 1000 Friends Working Lands Photo Contest (the “Photo Contest”) is open to all professional and amateur photographers aged 18 and up who reside within the United States. The Photo Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Board members, employees, interns, or partners of 1000 Friends of Oregon and its affiliates ("1000 Friends"), as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) and household members of those persons, are not eligible to enter.
By submitting an entry to the Photo Contest, entrants represent and warrant that the laws of their governing jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry do not prohibit or restrict the receipt of any prize under the Photo Contest.
Entry period
The Working Lands Photo Contest begins at 12:00:00 a.m. PDT on September 15, 2025, and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. PDT on October 17, 2025. Entries submitted before or after the entry period will not be eligible.
How to enter
Send no more than three images via email to Sarah@friends.org with the subject line: Working Lands Photo Contest Entry
- Images must be in JPG or JPEG format.
- Please keep each image size to around 3 GB. If your image is selected as a winner, you will be asked to provide a high-resolution version after the contest closes.
In the body of the email, please include:
- Your full name
- Your town and state
- A description of each image, including where it was taken and who is in it (if applicable).
AI photos are not accepted. All photographs should accurately reflect the subject matter and the scene as it appeared. Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard editing (cropping, spotting for dust, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified.
As a requirement of entry, a photograph must have been shot by the entrant. The entrant certifies that he/she is the sole creator and copyright owner of the submitted photograph. As a condition of entry, the entrant is responsible for obtaining the prior consent of any persons depicted in the photograph and any other steps necessary to ensure that infringement of rights related to such depiction does not occur.
Everything else (read before entering!)
The cost of entry is free.
You retain your rights to your photograph; however, by entering the contest, you grant 1000 Friends of Oregon a royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publicly display, distribute, reproduce, and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or later developed, for any purpose, including, but not limited to, advertising and promotion, exhibition, printing, distribution, public transmission, adaptation, and commercial products (this includes any sales of products utilizing the photograph), including but not limited to 1000 Friends of Oregon publications. Any photograph reproduced will include a photographer credit as feasible. 1000 Friends of Oregon will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.
1000 Friends of Oregon reserves the right to reject any entries that do not comply with these Official Rules. By entering, each entrant indicates his or her unconditional agreement to, and acceptance of, these Official Rules and 1000 Friends' decisions, which are final and binding. An entrant cannot win a prize unless the entrant complies with all requirements in these Official Rules.
Participation in the contest requires the collection of your name and email address. By entering this contest, you are consenting to the use of your name and email address for further communications regarding this contest. To access our privacy statement, click here.