The Photography For Real Estate monthly competition is a jury judged real estate photo contest held every month. Please follow the following if you’d like to participate.

Contest Schedule

1. Entries are displayed in the PFRE Photographer of The Month flickr group.
2. We accept images from the 1st until 15th 00:00 UTC of every month.
3. The PFRE Jury votes on images from the 15th of the month to the end of the month.
4. The winner is announced the 1st of the following month.
5. Voting by the jury starts on the 15th of each month.
6. You can join the fickr group and comment on the photos entered in the contest but comments are no longer considered votes. The jury listed below chooses the winner.
7. Any juror who enters a photo in the contest cannot vote that month.
8. Checkout the past winners here.

Contest Rules

1. There will be a new contest each month. The contest is open for entries during the first 15 days of each month. Contest submission deadline is Midnight on the 15th day of the month (UTC/GMT).
2. To submit a photo for the competition send your photo to: contest@PhotographyForRealEstate.net. In the subject line put “contest” and the month you are submitting for. Please include your full name, location information and website URL.
3. The body of the email must also contain the the following waiver and release of liability (Copy and paste all the following blue bold text into your email submitting your photo):
• I have read, understand and agree to the following terms of the PhotographyForRealEstate.net monthly and yearly photo competition: I agree to have my photo posted on flickr.com and on photographyforrealestate.net for the purpose the review and voting and agree to release Larry Lohrman and PFRE Media LLC from any liability resulting from any infringement of the submitted image by any third party. Also, I have no expectation of any benefit by virtue of submitting this image.
4. Submitted photos should be a JPG with maximum of 2000 pixels on the longest edge with quality 9. Note: the reason you want to submit this large a file is that contestant’s images are not just viewed in the relatively small flickr pool size. I also do a slideshow on the blog that people (an jurors) can look at the images in fullscreen mode so if you submit a small image it will look bad fullscreen.
5. Because it is the desire of the majority of readers and contest participants that the entrants are anonymous, it is preferred but not required that photos entered are NOT watermarked. Also the EXIF copyright field is left as submitted when posted to flickr. This means flickr users that know how, can view the copyright of entrants in the contest. In summary, copyright notices are all a choice of the entrant; remove them if you wish to remain anonymous or leave them on if you are more concerned about copyright.
6. Photo entries for contest are accepted 1st day of the month through mid-night on the 15th day of the month (UTC/GMT)
7. Please submit only one photo per month per individual photographer. Photographers working for the same company can submit photos in the same contest. Photos will only be accepted if they match the theme for the month. See below.
8. Each month there will be a different theme for the photo. See the Theme Schedule listed below.
9. All the submitted photos will be posted to the flickr group PFRE Photographer of The Month. So at any given time all the current contestants will be viewable on this flickr group.
10. Voting starts at 00:00 (UTC/GMT) on the 15th day of each month.
11. Comments are no longer considered votes. Make what ever comments you want on any of the contest photos. I encourage everyone to continue to comment on your favorite photos. Perhaps you can influence the jurors. 
12. At the end of each month the winner will be announced and all photos in the contest group will be deleted and the next month photos will be posted to the group.
13. It is the intention that both the photography and the post-processing for images all be done by the person submitting the image, but of coarse that’s impossible to strictly enforce.
14. This competition is void where prohibited by law.

Theme Schedule

1. January: Twilight exterior shots
2. February: Living room or Family room
3. March: Kitchen
4. April: Master bedroom
5. May: Interior with breath taking view
6. June: Large interior adjoined space
7. July: Master bath
8. August: Daylight exterior
9. September: Patio deck or garden space
10. October: Elevated exterior shot- Pole Aerial Photography, Aerial or Drone
11. November: Open – that is any real estate shot you want to enter
12. December: Voting for PFRE Photographer of the year among monthly winners from the previous 11 months.

Winners Receive

1. A large Photoshop file of the real estate photographer of the month logo for use on your web site and advertising.
2. A link on the front page of the PFRE blog (along the bottom right side bar) to your web site.
3. An entry on the PFRE Best-of-the-best page that contains your winning photo and a link to your web site.
4. A PFRE post that features your business similar to this.
5. Note that the reason I don’t give away money, equipment or software prizes is that this competition is world wide and making sure I don’t violate some country or state’s contest laws is just too complicated and too much legal risk for me. Besides what greater honor is there than being simply recognized by your peers?
6. An invitation to participate on the PFRE Jury.

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