SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 16, 2025

Applications are open for the SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest 2025. The SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest is held yearly to boost consciousness in regards to the International Day of Light and to exhibit the affect that mild has on cultural, financial, and societal facets of our world. Amateur {and professional} photographers alike are inspired to submit pictures for an opportunity to win money prizes.

Help showcase the transformative and awe-inspiring affect of mild on our lives, communities, and planet by submitting your eye-catching photos. A particular “Judges’ Choice for the Best of Science” prize can be provided this yr.

Examples of content material embody, however are usually not restricted to, inventive photos that depict:

• Various properties of mild and the way it interacts with the environment, nature, and supplies
• Light expertise resembling lasers, LEDs, and so on.
• Images created with mild expertise, resembling telescopes and microscopes
• People interacting with mild and/or mild expertise
• The betterment of the human situation with mild

Prizes

• First Prize: US$2,500
• Second Prize: US$1,000
• Third Prize: US$500
• Judges’ Choice for Best of Science Prize: US$1,000

Eligibility

• Open to adults aged 18 and up, each beginner {and professional} photographers, besides workers of SPIE and optics.org, their rapid households, the competition judges, and consultants/contractors of SPIE.
• Immediate household is outlined as all grandparents, dad and mom, spouses, siblings, kids, grandchildren, in-legal guidelines, or anybody dwelling within the SPIE or optics.org worker’s family. Entrants are topic to all relevant federal, state, and native legal guidelines and laws. Contest is void the place prohibited by regulation.

Judging Criteria

Each {photograph} can be judged on the next standards:

• Content: Appropriateness and protection of content material in relation to the theme.
• Scientific curiosity: Overall effectiveness in partaking and speaking the competition theme to viewers.
• Creativity/artistry: Innovation and creativity within the idea.
• Execution: Execution of images methods used to boost the standard and content material of entries.
• Overall attraction for the International Day of Light.

Application

Simply submit your finest {photograph} that embodies the ability, magnificence, and significance of mild. Whether it’s an awe-inspiring pure scene or a picture capturing chopping-edge mild expertise, your submission will assist showcase the brilliance of mild in our world.

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For extra info, go to SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest.