If you love history, architecture, or just walking around with your camera taking photos of interesting places, check out the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest.
It is an international photo contest created to "improve the number and quality of photos of historic monuments and places" freely available through Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The project started in the Netherlands in 2010, and now spans 35 countries this year. Over 220,000 images have been uploaded worldwide so far. You can browse them by date or country here.
To participate in the U.S. photo contest, go to the Wiki Loves Monuments USA site. There, you can learn more about the contest, sign up, and get the official companion app for Android mobile devices.
By default, photos submitted to the contest will be given the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, which allows others to freely re-use and modify your photos, as long as they include a photo credit to you.
As an added incentive (it is a contest after all), prizes will be awarded in a Best Picture competitions, at both national and international levels. Prizes in the U.S. Best Picture competition are vouchers for photographic purchases, ranging from $300 to $700.
But if you want to compete for a prize, you have to hurry. The contest runs only through the end of September. You can of course still take and upload pictures after the cut off date, but they won’t be considered for prizes this year.
This article was last modified on September 25, 2012
This article was first published on September 25, 2012
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