Be Published In The International Landscape Photography Book 2024!

We are currently judging the awards - we aim to announce the results on 15 November 2024.
The competition closed on 30 September 2024, and the 'every 5th entry free' offer closed 23 September 2024
No AI-generated images are allowed. Photographs must have been taken after 1 January 2020.
Any questions? Check out our FAQ page!

Do you spend days or weeks in the wilderness waiting for the perfect light, searching for the perfect angle? Or are your landscape photographs the result of your imagination - where you spend days or weeks refining your vision?

At the International Landscape Photographer of the Year awards, we believe that there are many legitimate approaches to creating inspiring, exciting and diverse landscape photographs. After all, photography is a language and we can write fiction or non-fiction as we choose. Both are valid forms of expression and our annual awards book is a testament to the belief that our rules shouldn't in any way limit or curtail the imagination of our entrants.

This is our eleventh year of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards and the main aim of our Award is for you to have one or more of your entries accepted into the Top 101 landscape photographs of the year. This gives you a place in our exclusive book which is published online and can be purchased as a 'real' hard-cover paper publication as well.

There is a total of US$12,500 in cash prizes, printed copies of the book for the major prize winners and some excellent NiSi filter outfits (see the rules for full details).

So, what's the process? Your job is to impress our five judges, including last year's winner Tony Hewitt. And the entry process is easy - just size your photo to 4000-5000 pixels on the longest side, save it as a JPEG/JPG and upload it. The entry fee remains unchanged at US$25 per image, and if you enter by 23 September 2024, every fifth entry is free. Final entries are accepted until 30 September 2024. 

When the competition closes, our judges will use calibrated monitors to judge each photograph, giving it a score out of 100. Judges can open each and every entry and view it pixel for pixel on their monitor if required - and this is invariably done before they give their higher scores. Technique and craft are just as important as creativity for the top awards.

Once the first round of judging is completed, the top scoring 101 photos are selected and checked to ensure they comply with the rules (not taken before 1 January 2020 for example) and that there are not two or more photographs by the same photographer that are very similar (we are looking for variety). There is also a limit on the number of photographs a single entrant can have in the Top 101 - no more than four, just to share the experience around. We then move into the next round of judging, as outlined in our rules. The judges are engaged a second time to determine the Photographer of the Year (1st, 2nd, 3rd), the Photograph of the Year (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and five special subject awards. This can take two or even three rounds of scoring and comment before the judges come up with their final result.

We hope you enjoy getting your entries ready for our eleventh Awards and the best of luck!

Peter Eastway and David Evans

International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards

To enter, click on the 'Entrants Login Here' menu button at the top right of the page.