Amateur Photography Contest – Niagara County Fair

2026 Amateur Photography Entry Form

Submission Guidelines

Each photographer might submit as much as three pictures, both multi function class or unfold throughout a number of classes.

Entry Fees:

• 1st photograph: Free
• 2nd & third pictures: $10 every (extra photograph price)
• Maximum price per entrant: $20 (for 3 pictures)

File Naming Format

Each photograph filename should comply with this construction (use dashes, not areas, underscores, or dots besides earlier than the file extension):

Example: Kids-with-green-eggs-and-ham-by-Dr-Seuss-2026-04-01.jpg

Photo Metadata

All pictures should embody metadata itemizing the artist and copyright. Entrants can watch a video or read a guide from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources on find out how to edit photograph metadata earlier than submitting.

Only pictures assembly these standards, submitted with a accomplished entry kind, might be eligible.

Official Rules

Deadline for Entry

Photo submissions and accomplished entry/launch varieties should be submitted by Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 4:30 p.m.

CCE Niagara won’t settle for late, incomplete, or non-compliant entries. CCE Niagara reserves the appropriate to regulate deadlines as a consequence of circumstances past its management and can make cheap efforts to inform entrants of any modifications.

Content Standards

• Submissions should not comprise inappropriate, indecent, obscene, or illegal content material (CCE Niagara has sole discretion on this).
• Photos should be unique, beforehand unpublished, and created solely by the entrant no copyright or third-party IP violations.
• Photos beforehand entered in different contests or printed elsewhere are ineligible.
• Photos should precisely replicate the topic/scene. Standard optimization (mud elimination, cropping, publicity/coloration/distinction changes) is allowed; extreme digital alteration will end in disqualification.
• AI-generated images usually are not accepted.
• Photos might not embody names, signatures, logos, or different figuring out marks.

Categories

1. Agriculture & Rural Life
2. People & Portraits
3. County Fair Fun
4. Creative & Artistic Photography
5. Youth Perspective (beneath 18)

Eligibility

• Open to photographers of all ages/talent ranges who’re authorized U.S. residents at time of entry.
• CCE Niagara workers and their kids might enter however are not eligible to win prizes.
• Winners can’t win the identical class once more for three years.
• If entry charges aren’t paid by the deadline, all pictures after the primary (free) entry might be disqualified.

Judging & Selection

• Judged by a panel of 5, together with at the very least one photographer, one farmer, and one educator.
• One winner chosen per class (5 complete).
• Judging standards:
  • Visual effectiveness — 40%
  • Originality/creativity — 25%
  • Universal attraction — 25%
  • Message/theme — 10%
• CCE Niagara has sole discretion over winner choice; entrants waive rights to dispute outcomes.

Prizes

• $25 money prize per class winner.
• Winners notified by telephone/e mail by September 8.
• Winners introduced publicly through e mail, information launch, and social media on/round September 8.