Enter our Your Best Shot photo comp sponsored by Blonde Robot

After more than a decade of our photo competition Your Best Shot being only open to AP magazine readers and subscribers, we've decided to shake things up and open it up to everyone in Australia to enter from 2024.

There's a different theme in every issue of AP mag, and you can win great prizes thanks to our good friends at Blonde Robot, the Australasian distributors of Peak Design, 3 Legged Thing, and Angelbird.

Each issue, AP's Editor Mike O'Connor will choose six images to be published both in print and online, with both a winner and a runner-up selected. Our winner will also receive an amazing prize thanks to Blonde Robot. 

How to enter

To enter, email your entry to yourbestshot@australianphotography.com with the name of the competition theme in the email subject line, for example: Flight, Framing, Water, etc. You can see a list of the 2024 themes below. 

The image file must be the same as your name, for example Jane Smith.jpg. If you enter multiple images, each new image file name should be appended with a unique number, eg Jane Smith2.jpg. A maximum of three images can be entered per person.

Images must be in JPEG format, and your email size must not exceed 7MB.

In addition, please include the following information about your entry in the body of your email: Name, image title and up to 200 words explaining how you created your image. Please also include technical details including camera, lens, focal length, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, tripod (if used) and a brief summary of any software edits.

Upcoming themes for 2024

WATER

Deadline: 31 May 2024

Shortlist published in August/September 2024 issue of AP.

RURAL

Deadline: 31 July 2024

Shortlist published in October/November 2024 issue of AP.

SPORT

Deadline: 30 September 2024

Shortlist published in December/January 2025 issue of AP.

AUSTRALIA

Deadline: 31 October 2024

Shortlist published in The Annual 2025 issue of AP (Feb 2025).

You can find out more about the terms and conditions of the competition and image entry guidelines here.