Help SCC by tapping into your creative side and showing off your best images!
​Submit your photo to the SCC Photo Contest today!
Grab your bike, get your friends, and go shoot some photos! Enter your images for a chance to win and to see your work featured on SCC's website and social media platforms.
​You do not have to be a professional to submit your photo. Wireless phone, point and shoot, and professional level SLR photos are all welcome. Choose your best work, upload, and show off your finest images. All entries may be used for SCC content, so get your wheels rolling and your camera snapping and share what you've captured!
Criteria and Guidelines:
  • Amateur photos welcome. Must be your original photo and not copyrighted (No photos taken from event photography or websites, etc.). 
  • Photos must include a bicycle in its entirety or a portion of a bicycle, with the exception of the Candid and Group theme.
  • Any type of human-powered or pedal-assist bicycle may be represented in the photo.
  • Both color and black and white photos may be entered.
  • Multiple entries welcome. (Choose the best composition. Please refrain from entering different angles or frames of the same content, unless doing so provides a very different visual appeal.)
  • A single photo may be entered into more than one theme.
  • Parental consent required for photos including anyone under the age of 18.
  • Photos containing nudity, obscenities, or any other inappropriate content as deemed by the judge(s) will be rejected.​ ​
  • Photos do not have to be from the current ride season.
Note: This is a call for member contributions to SCC digital content. The purpose is to collect visual content for SCC marketing, promotional, and display purposes. By entering, you grant permission for SCC to use your photo. Submissions may be featured on the SCC website, social media, email, and other platforms. For this purpose, images may be digitally altered (resized, cropped, lighting/color changed, text overlays, etc.). Please contact the SCC Secretary for further information on how your photo will be used or if you have any special requests for how your photo will be used. DO NOT enter your photo if you do not wish for it to be displayed publicly.
​Judging:
​Please don't let any criteria intimidate you. All entries may be used for SCC content regardless of whether or not it is a selected winner. Please enter your photo!! 
​Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
  • Quality and basic technique
  • Special technique
  • Composition and structure
  • Lighting
  • Subject and interest
  • Artistic appeal and originality
  • Image Content - Story and mood
Photos submitted into previous SCC photo contests may be submitted again; However, winning photos from previous contests will not be considered.
​Prizes:
We are currently working on prizes for winners! Prizes TBD
Don't forget that many of the entries will be featured on the SCC website and social media pages. This is a prize as well!
How to Enter:
It's easy! For each entry:
1. Select the theme for which you would like to submit your photo.
2. Click the theme image below to be taken to a Dropbox upload page.
3. Upload your photo, complete your information, and you're entered!
Deadline for Entry: October 18, 2024
Need Inspiration? Check out the winners of the 2019 Photo Contest by clicking here!
Themes:
Bicycle Spotlight
​Bicycle as the main feature of interest in the image
Landscape
​Bicycle or riders with landscape as backdrop
Structure and Architecture
​Bicycle with buildings or other structures of interest
Cycling Action
Riders in action
Creative Context
Bicycle or parts presented in abstract or in an artistic fashion
Nature
Bicycle placed in nature with elements of interest
Candid and Group
Individual or group SCC members in cycling attire
Travel
Bicycle next to sign or landmark illustrating that the rider has ridden outside of the SCC local area
Open Theme
Have something that doesn't really fall into the categories above? Enter it into the open theme.