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Photo Challenge The Photo Challenge inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons. Monthly thematic competitions encourage participants to try new subjects, new photographic or processing techniques, and to develop skills while improving the Commons repository of free images. Photographs entered into a competition must be new to Commons and taken by a Commons user.

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Challenges

Challenges are based on a theme and run for a month. The theme may be a concrete subject, an abstract concept, a photographic technique or artistic style.

Participation

Everybody can participate in challenges open for submission. You simply

1. Choose one or all of the current challenges
2. Read the challenge description(s), which may vary in their rules (e.g., some place restrictions on when the photos are taken)
3. Take picture(s) for the challenge(s) during the challenge period (or, if allowed, select from your own existing pictures that are not yet on Commons)
4. Upload your picture(s) during the challenge period
5. Submit your candidates at the top of the current challenge gallery during the challenge period. To do that you click the [Edit] button of the Entries section of your chosen challenge and insert the File name above the last entry (or above File:-Insert image here-.svg for the first entry).

   Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

   Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

   For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

6. Do not sign your submission(s)
7. If you want, you can have a look at previous challenges and Vote

Challenges are open to any Commons user. Submissions must be your own work, not previously uploaded to Commons prior to the challenge date and should illustrate the challenge theme in the opinion of the photographer. Please read the challenge descriptions, as there may be additional rules or explanations for specific challenges. There is no limit on the number of submissions per user (unless specially so restricted in the challenge), but please choose from among your best and most varied images.

To submit pictures, you edit the gallery of the contest and add your candidate(s) to the top of the list.

New themes can be proposed and discussed here.

Assessment

After the challenge has closed to new submissions, the pictures will be assessed by popularity voting in the subsequent month. You are allowed to vote for images submitted by others if your Commons account is at least ten days old and has more than 50 edits or if you participated in one of the challenges. Challenges open for voting can be found here.

Winning

The best three pictures will be awarded first, second and third place. They will be displayed on the Photo challenge page and may use the template {{Photo challenge winner}} on the file description page.

New media viewing experience

Please note users can disable the media viewing experience for all images on Commons when logged in (uncheck "Enable Media Viewer" under Files and click Save in Preferences, Appearance).

Challenges open for submission

2024 – June – Construction site

The new challenge features Construction sites.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout June UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. June 2024 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 20 days 8 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  Stavoren. Shipyard shipyard crane.
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  Construction at rgipt
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  家门口的建筑工地
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  589 Fulton Street under construction
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  The worker was paste a new advertising banner on the glass surface of building window.
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  Polyethylene gas pipe installation
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  Tokyo Skytree under construction.
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  Worker with milling machine
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  Machine on site sky
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  Crane and concrete pipe on site
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  Crane on site sky
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  Construction site Container
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  Construction ongoing
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  Greenhouse building in progress
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  Arc construction in process
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  Construction and deconstruction - a process in single frame
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  Humber Bay Park, Toronto
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  Самое начало. Строительство подземной камеры.
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  Установка арматурной конструкции в подготовленную траншею
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  Groningen (city), construction cranes above the station area.
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  Pouring of Concrete Foundation
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  Construction site of Tokyo Gaikan Expressway in Misato, Saitama, Japan
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  Carpenter working on a concrete formwork
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  Reconstruction site at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, May 2024
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  Reconstruction site at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, May 2024
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  Reconstruction site at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, May 2024
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  Ryukan-Sakura Bridge under construction in Tokyo, Japan
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  Installing roof structure, Indonesia, November 2019
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  Construction of Beiheng Passageway in Shanghai, China, in June 2023
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  Australian Sailor Monument under construction, Rockingham Naval Memorial Park, June 2024
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  A construction site as part of urban transformation in the Asian side of İstanbul
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  Railway construction in Khabarovsk, 2024
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  Workers installing roof on construction project of Light Rail Transit Station in Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. Picture taken at Friday, 16 March 2018
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  A construction of an addtional buildings at a mall
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  Demolition of the old Stade Municipal Emmanuel Thery (2019) Villeneuve d'Ascq.
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  Decathlon Aréna project - Stade Pierre Mauroy Construction (2012) Villeneuve d'Ascq.
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  Construction site for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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  270 Park Avenue in NYC under construction
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  Canadian Parliament Buildings renovations in 2021
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  Henan Nanyang pavement construction site
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  A seaside construction site in Busan
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  Just finished building the Buddha statue
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  FORMER EVERGRANDE GROUP REAL ESTATE IN GUIYUAN ROAD, SHENZHEN, Photo taken at Tuesday, 2 October 2022
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  To submit pictures please follow this link

2024 – June – Mushroom

The new challenge features Mushrooms and Fungi.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout June UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. June 2024 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 20 days 8 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  Deformed clouded agaric (Clitocybe nebularis), a mushroom that grows on another mushroom.
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  Zwei Baumschwämme an einem gefälltem Baum
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  Schwefelporlinge an einem abgestorbenen Baum
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  Schmetterlingstrameten an einem toten Baum im Wald
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  Pickled mushrooms in Saint Petersburg shop
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  All Green gathered at the corner
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  Playing Hide and seek at the edge
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  Подберезовик
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  Белый
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  Опята
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  Трутовик
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  Amanita caesareoides
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  Xerocomus subtomentosus in Vanoise National Park
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  Russula ochroleuca in Vanoise National Park
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  Calvatia booniana in Vanoise National Park
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  Hortus Haren. ( Laetiporus sulphureus ) on ( Ginkgo biloba ).
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  Amanita muscaria Location De Famberhorst.
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  Oyster Mushrooms in the Mille Lacs lake area in Minnesota June 2nd 2024
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  Calocera viscosa in Burgundy
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  A young fly agaric in the center of small fairy ring
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  Macrolepiota procera.
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  Armillaria on a fagus sylvatica
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  Pleurotus on liriodendron root
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  Reddish mutinus caninus
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  Pleurocybella porrigens
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  Cerrena zonata
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  Phallus impudicus
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  Amanita muscaria
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  Amanita phalloides
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  Hand holding a portobello mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
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  Leccinum scabrum
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  After the rain
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  Yellow-patches Ontario Canada
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  Some porcini mushrooms
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  Shelf mushroom Ontario Canada
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  Oyster mushroom Ottawa Ontario
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  Mushroom with mushroom
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  Small mushrooms
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  Mushrooms are growing
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  To submit pictures please follow this link

Challenges open for voting

Voting is open to all registered contributors who have held accounts for at least 10 days and made 50 edits, and also to new Commons contributors who have entered the challenge with a picture. Users cannot vote for their own picture. Voters may select up to three photographs in each theme to award points and can give praise to other photos without awarding points. Voting will be open for one month. The votes not complying with those requirements will be removed or converted to praises. In some cases users might be asked to correct their votes after voting ends.

May 2024

• Waves
• Pets

Previous challenges

April 2024

• Vertical lines -> Commons:Photo challenge/2024 - April - Vertical lines/Winners
• Flame -> Commons:Photo challenge/2024 - April - Flames/Winners

March 2024

Grays: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
image
Title	Sieben graue Köpfe	Reflections - Shyok River	Nina-Replica
Author	Mensch01	Prof Ranga Sai	Wingerham52
Score	20	18	11

Courthouses: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
image
Title	Palazzo di Guistizia with Courte di Cassazione at river Tiber, Rome, Italy	North facade of Palais de justice de Paris.	Supreme Court of Finland at night
Author	Mozzihh	FreCha	GPSLeo
Score	19	15	12

February 2024

Lunar New Year: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Dragon Dance, Oklahoma City, OK, Lunar New Year, 2024 (Year of the Dragon)	Sec. 1, Wuchang St., Taipei City, with LED lights decorations above on 2024 Chinese New Year	Eu Tong Sen Street in Chinatown, Singapore, with CNY decorations above
Author	OKJaguar	Junyu-K	S5A-0043
Score	11	9	9

Knots: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Boat knot	Figure-eight loop in mountaineering	Root knot of a beech tree
Author	Teseo	Wagner Cxxx	Foeniz
Score	11	9	8

January 2024

Silos: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Garfield Grain Elevator and Silos Garfield Washington USA	Feed silos in Hirschbrunn near Burgebrach	Silos of the Hannoversche Portland -Cementfabrik (abandoned in 1986)
Author	DaveGinOly	Ermell	Hgrobe
Score	19	13	8

Masks: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Narrentag 2024 - Elzacher Schuttig	Kirchseoner Perchtenlauf - old winter parade tradition in Bavaria. Mask of type "Klaubauf"	Taken in Dublin, march 2014
Author	Rainer Halama	Würmchen-vom-Mölchlein	Oncewerecolours
Score	13	13	10

Previous years

• Photo challenge in 2023
• Photo challenge in 2022
• Photo challenge in 2021
• Photo challenge in 2020
• Photo challenge in 2019
• Photo challenge in 2018
• Photo challenge in 2017
• Photo challenge in 2016
• Photo challenge in 2015
• Photo challenge in 2014
• Photo challenge in 2013