2019 National Park Photo Contest Winners
The three Grand Prize winners are Bryan Anderson for Landscape, Eileen Hartmann for Wildlife and Juan David for Night Skies. Also see 30 Honorable Mention photos.
Contests
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Are you feeling lucky? National Park Trips Media offers contests and sweepstakes for recreational gear, trips, camera equipment, and lodging. Here you will find our current contests.
Photographer? Be sure to enter our annual National Parks Photography Contest sponsored by Tamron.
Tamron introduced the world’s first ultra-telephoto 22.2X all-in-one zoom camera lens with extended range that covers 18-400mm. Whether you’re shooting the Half Dome in Yosemite, photographing bears in Yellowstone, or capturing dew on a perfect cactus flower in Arches National Park, the new Tamron 18-400mm camera lens handles almost every possible kind of subject beautifully.
Backstories of the 2018 Winning National Park Photos
Want to know how to get a winning shot? Read these behind-the-scenes stories on how our three first-place photographers captured award-winning photos.
Behind the Shot. Stories About the 2017 Winning Photos
The three winners, Roger Twilley, Matt Meisenheimer, and Tony Prince, are all hobbyists—none is a professional photographer by trade—but their images were no accidents.
Winners of the National Park Road Trips
Is your dream vacation in the desert or the mountains? Would you rather stay in a modern lodge or a historic hotel? Would you treat your taste buds with New Mexican cuisine or hot chocolate and s'mores?
National Park Photo Contest presented by Tamron
Love to take photos in national parks? Whether it’s a landscape, a wildlife pic or a Milky Way shot, send it our way. You could win a Tamron camera lens!
National Park Photo Contest Winners - 2014
2014 Grand Prize: Mike Wheeler with his photo of a grizzly and two cubs in Grand Teton National Park. Also winners Dana Raynor and Jonathan O'Reilly
National Park Photo Contest Winners - 2015
2015 Grand Prize winner is Amit Lamba - A Storm is Coming! Grand Canyon National Park. Runners up are Stephen Goldschmidt and D Brent Young.
National Park Photo Contest Winners - 2016
2016 Grand Prize winner is Kate Noll of wildlife from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. Runners up are Phill Monson and Sandeep Gali. + 56 Honorable Mentions
National Park Photo Contest Winners - 2017
The three Grand Prize winners are Matt Meisenheimer for Landscape, Roger Twilley for Wildlife, and Tony Prince for Night Skies. Also see 48 Honorable Mention photos.
National Park Photo Contest Winners - 2018
The three Grand Prize winners are Max Foster for Landscape, Lindsay Donald for Wildlife and Nathan Dolin-Aubertin for Night Skies. Also see 30 Honorable Mention photos.