The next installment of our Shutterbug Photography Contest tasks readers with the color-focused theme “Something Blue.” Images can be from any year and any place, but they must contain at least one element of the color blue. Enter any subject matter that captures what blue means to you.
The Tennessee Magazine will name first-, second- and third-place winners as well as honorable mention recipients in each division — Adult Shutterbug, Junior Shutterbug (ages 17 and younger) and Professional.
Images can include people or not, and they can be selfies. As you accept this challenge, please stay safe. We don’t want anyone to take a tumble in the name of the Shutterbug contest.
Contest rules
- The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers. For the purposes of this competition, you are considered a professional if you regularly sell your images or garner more than 50% of your income from photography.
- Photographs must have been taken by you.
- A photographer can enter no more than three photographs. There is no cost to enter.
- All entries must be made online. We won’t accept prints for this contest. Sign on to tnmagazine.org and click on “Entry Forms” under “Contests.” Complete the form and upload your photograph(s).
- Employees of Tennessee’s electric cooperatives and their immediate families are not eligible to win.
- Please include the name of each recognizable person, if any other than yourself, in your photograph. It is the photographer’s responsibility to have the subject’s permission to enter his or her image in the contest. You must include the subject’s name and contact information with your submission. Omitting any of this information can result in disqualification.
- By entering the contest, photographers automatically give The Tennessee Magazine permission to publish the winning images in print and digital publications, to social media and on websites.
Shutterbug assignment:
“Something Blue”
Submissions — online entries only
To enter, visit tnmagazine.org and click on “Entry Forms” under the “Contests” tab.
Deadline
Entries must be entered online by the end of the day on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. Winners will be published in the March 2025 issue.
Prize packages:
Judges will select a first-, second- and third-place winner in each division and age group. These prizes will be awarded: First place wins $150, second place $100 and third place $50.
