IGPOTY: Deadline for Entries Looms

Posted in Photography on October 28 2011, by Ann Rafalko

Fall is a gorgeous time to take pictures at The New York Botanical Garden. In the Thain Family Forest, the trees are slowly but surely changing colors. Through this weekend, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is full of mesmerizing, gargantuan kiku. Pumpkins galore adorn the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. And everywhere you turn, our feathery, fuzzy, and furry friends are scurrying about getting ready for the impending winter. There’s beauty at every turn, and by entering your photos of the Garden into the International Garden Photographer of the Year contest, you could even earn some global acclaim for your shots!

The fifth-annual competition of the International Garden Photographer of the Year contest closes to entries on November 30, 2011. The entry fee is 10£ or around $16, but if one of your photographs wins, you could make that fee back in spades. The grand prize award is around $8,000!

So, to get you excited about entering your photographs into the competition, we thought we would gather up some of our favorite images from past competitions as inspiration. (Click the description below any photo to learn more about it on the IGPOTY website.)

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In addition, we will be resurrecting our monthly NYBG-IGPOTY photo contests over on our Flickr Group Pool for November with a theme celebrating the dedication of the Thain Family Forest. Please submit your favorite shots from this 50-acre urban wilderness wonderland by tagging them with NYBGIGPOTY4. The rules remain the same: You may enter five photos, a panel of NYBG-staff will pick the winners, and a special prize will be sent out to the winners!

If you have any questions, please feel free to let us know. You can leave a comment on the blog, tweet us, Facebook us, or email us. We’ll answer as best we can!

Good luck, and happy shooting!