Forest Photo Contest 2025
It’s a big year for the photo contest: our tenth anniversary! The first Forest Photo Contest was a decade ago in 2015, organized by then-Culture Minister Frieden-und Freudenland. Since then, it has given us the chance to mark the end of each year and reflect back on it for at least a moment before diving into the next one. I’m truly proud that this tradition has been sustained for so long and has managed to become a fixture of Forest’s yearly calendar. (That said, in recent years that calendar has been getting a bit skewed by the procrastinatory habits of yours truly, such that the remark I used to include about announcing the winners of the contest in time for the arrival of the new year would now be nearly a month divorced from the reality. Maybe by the time the twentieth anniversary contest comes around, it will actually take place in June. Or maybe I should find someone to replace me who has a responsible sense of time management…)
In any case, at slightly-longer-than-usual last, the Forest Photo Contest 2025 is still here before we bid farewell to this year. Whether you’ve participated for all the iterations, or this is your first time – and whether you’re a Forestian denizen or a friend from one of our embassies – we invite you to join in for another year of photography!
Here’s what you need to know:
🌲 We have four categories once again this year:
- Trees (this category is permanent each year)
- Juxtaposition (two things, elements, or aspects placed side-by-side or against each other with contrasting effect)
- Stillness (the opposite of motion or sound: things that are silent, calm, or static, whether tranquil or eerie)
- Nature in Human Space (houseplants, street trees, ants on a countertop, birds on a telephone wire, or anything else where the natural world finds its way into human-built, “artificial” environments)
🌲 You may submit up to 12 photos total. You may choose how to divide those among the different categories, but please do not submit more than 12.
🌲 Please post your photos in the appropriate thread on our forums (see the categories above for links).
. You may also submit photos via a link to an image hosting site (we like Imgur) in a telegram to Mount Seymour or via Discord to @somyrion.
🌲 The photos must be taken by you, but can be taken at any time (not just during the contest).
🌲 Anyone in Forest or in a region which has an embassy with Forest may submit photographs for the contest.
🌲 Timing:
- Submissions will be open from December 20 at 23:59 UTC (7:00pm Dec 20 EST) to January 9th at 23:59 UTC.
- Voting will begin on January 10th at 23:59 UTC and end January 17th at 23:59 UTC.
🌲 Voting will take place on a Google Form. Needless to say, please no puppeteering!
🌲 The photographers with the top three photographs in each category will have their photos acknowledged on our RMB, on our World Factbook Entry, and potentially in our next foreign update. A banner will also (hopefully) be created with a collage of the top photos to applaud the winners, and participants in the competition will be encouraged to add it as their nation’s custom banner. Forest’s flag will also be changed to the 1st place photos in each category for a week after the Contest.
Now it’s time to head out and start photographing! Good luck to everyone!
Any questions about the Contest should be directed to Mount Seymour.
