Photo Contest – Wildlife in Focus (WiF)

Contest #1) Wildlife Alliance Photo Contest (Team Contest) Landowner
Registration $500

For a landowner you have the opportunity to win money, you will obtain a portfolio of 100 images from your own land!

Contest #1) Wildlife Alliance Photo Contest (Team Contest) Photographer Registration $500

You have the unique opportunity to photograph wildlife on private land, win money and get published!

Contest #2) Lone Star Photo Contest
Individual Contest Photographer $100

You can participate for a day, a week or the whole contest. Photograph on one or more of any landowners that will be listed as open to individuals.

Contest #2 Individual Photographer Registration

Contest #3) Lone Star Video Contest Videographer Registration $100

You have the opportunity to win money…and video wildlife on private land…and/or create great videos of interviews with landowners and photographers that tell a story !

Contest #3 Videographer Registration

Wildlife in Focus 2025 Photo
and Video Contests Overview –
Registration is Open

Both landowners and photographers should register as soon as possible so that WIF can help put you in contact with a registered photographer or landowner as desired. There is no need to wait until you know who your partner is. It is your choice of who you partner with so you can register now even if you have a partner in mind that has not yet registered.

What is different about these photo contests?

Our primary event is the Team Photo Contest – pairing a photographer with a private landowner. For the upcoming contest we have added a video contest and a individual photographer event. See the rules document.

The Team photo contest is unlike any other photo contests in that all photos are taken on participating private lands during the 100 day window of the contest. This provides a unique opportunity for private landowners and photographers to get to know each other and work together as a team in this contest. It is also why advance registration is needed.

For a landowner you have the opportunity to see your own land through the lens of a photographer, to obtain a portfolio of up to 100 images that showcase the diversity of life on your land, all with the opportunity to win money. As a consideration, to hire a photographer to come and provide you with a portfolio of wildlife images from your land would cost $1000’s of dollars with no chance of winning money.

For a Photographer you have the unique opportunity to experience and photograph wildlife on private land without crowds. As a consideration a “normal” photography trip with hotel, park access, photo leader cost, transportation etc, would cost you $1000’s of dollars…much more than the entry fee, and you would not be the opportunity to win money…or more importantly make new friends with your landowner teammate. Participating in the contest will cause you to really improve your photography skills. Some past participants started entering as amateur’s and are now full time professionals leading tours around the world!.

We encourage all to participate, support conservation, and getting out to experience and explore wildlife, to share your experience with others and to create new relationships and friendships with others that enjoy wildlife.