Flora & Fauna Foto Contest
COMING SOON!
We are working on getting our first ever "Flora & Fauna Foto" contest off the ground. If you are a youth between the ages 10-18, you will be able to submit up to two of your best photographs of animals in the wild, your hunting animals, flowers, landscapes, etc. All photos must showcase flora or fauna in South Carolina that you took in the past two years (year of the expo and the year before). Currently shooting for a 2025 date.
DETAILS
Photographs need be printed and mounted on a black foam core board, or other sturdy black board. (must be lightweight for hanging.)
Photographs must be submitted with paperwork by deadline provided in the "Foto Rules" (click below to download rules and application for submission.)
Foto Rules (PDF) - Coming Soon!
the CHOSEN
There will be winners in the following:
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Top Choice, Age Group 10-14; Flora
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Top Choice, Age Group 10-14; Fauna
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Top Choice, Age Group 15-18; Flora
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Top Choice, Age Group 15-18; Fauna
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Overall Winner, All Groups, Flora
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Overall Winner, All Groups, Fauna
PAST WINNERS
We don't have any yet! Looking forward to seeing all the great works from our talented SC youth!
BE an INSPIRATION
Be an inspiration to others to get outdoors! By sharing your photography of our beautiful South Carolina, you can inspire others to go outside and SEE IT.
Special cameras are not needed. Those phones that are ever at your fingertips have some pretty powerful cameras on them - so don't feel like you have to be a pro to enter - just share your special photos!
ABOUT the THEME
Why "Flora and Fauna"? Because! That is what makes the outdoors, well, outdoors!
flora (n.)
c. 1500, "Roman goddess of flowers;" 1777, "the plant life of a region or epoch," from Latin Flora, "goddess of flowers," from flos (accusative florem, genitive floris) "flower," from *flo-s-, Italic suffixed form of PIE *bhle- "to blossom, flourish" (source also of Middle Irish blath, Welsh blawd "blossom, flower," Old English blowan "to flower, bloom"), extended form of root *bhel- (3) "to thrive, bloom."
fauna (n.)
1771, "the total of the animal life of a certain region or time, from Late Latin Fauna, a rustic Roman fertility goddess who was wife, sister, or daughter (or some combination) of Faunus.
