Winter Photo Challenge:
Life From the Frozen Earth

Share your inspirational winter images by Dec. 1!
Organized by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)

Close up of a violet-blue-flower covered in ice crystals. Over the photo, a translucent textbox has the words "Winter Photo Challenge" in large navy blue script

Frozen flower in Ontario’s Manitoulin Island (Credit: Laura Falsone, 2023 winner)

The longest nights of the year are at hand, and the Smithsonian wants to know where YOU find your sources of beauty and inspiration. Send us your favorite winter nature pics, and they could appear on the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s website and social media as part of our 12 Nights of Solstice celebration (with credit to you, of course)!

Here’s how it works:

  1. Submit up to three winter photos taken by you or your child, following the theme Life From the Frozen Earth. Creative interpretations encouraged, but photos must be nature focused!
  2. A panel of SERC judges will choose five winning photos from the public and five winning photos from Smithsonian staff or volunteers.
  3. The final two photos will be chosen by YOU, in a new People’s Choice category! (Stay tuned in mid-December for info on how to vote.)
  4. We’ll feature a different winner on SERC social media for 12 nights, starting on the winter solstice Dec. 21.

Enter the contest

Show me the rules, please (4-minute read)

Questions? Email Kristen Goodhue at GoodhueK@si.edu.