4th Annual Homewood Collection Competition and Exhibition
Organization:
Homewood Living Frederick
Location
Frederick, MD
Entry Fee
Free Entry
Deadline
April 1, 2026
Exhibition
Jun 19
- Jun 18, 2027
Photographers are asked to submit digital images for judging and selection. Twenty-four (24) images will be selected with one of those images designated as Best-of-Show (BOS). This year the cash prizes total $2,950.00. Each selected image will receive a minimum cash prize of $100.00. BOS will receive $500.00 and the Peoples’ Choice Award is $250.00. If selected for the Homewood Collection, photographers will be asked to submit a specially formatted high-resolution digital file that will be printed on large format, gallery-wrapped canvas at the Homewood Living Foundation’s expense. If you have any questions after reading the provided material, please contact us at our email address: [email protected].
2026 theme is 'See What I Imagined.' While this theme invites a creative interpretation, and some degree of imaginative post-processing, we encourage participants to maintain a grounding in reality. Remember, the primary audience for this exhibition is senior adults, many of whom are no longer able to travel extensively. Through your image, we hope viewers will experience the world as you imagined it in the moment you pressed the shutter?whether that world is intimate and focused, like a portrait, or a wonder of nature, architecture, or expansive, like a landscape or cityscape.
Images will be judged on technical excellence, lighting, composition, and the judge?s assessment of their appeal to our intended audience.
Subject Matter
Natural subjects, including landscapes, isolated scenes or arrangements, wildlife, wildflowers, insects or macros and the like are preferred. Buildings and other structures are acceptable, particularly if they showcase a regional historic or cultural character or are part of the landscape. Abstract images, without a recognizable subject, are discouraged. Photo illustrations, such as composites, or strongly altered images are acceptable so long as they do not, in the opinion of the judge, misrepresent the subject, its context, or otherwise tend to mislead the viewer. Images that portray abuse, misuse or degradation of nature are not acceptable. Nude images will not be appropriate. Both color and black and white images are acceptable. Images of people are acceptable, but images of recognizable people should not be submitted unless a release signed by the subject(s) or legal guardian(s) can be provided. You can use either the form provided by Homewood at Frederick, or your own form, provided it covers the use of images as specified in 'Photographer's Rights and Use of Images by Homewood at Frederick'.
2026 theme is 'See What I Imagined.' While this theme invites a creative interpretation, and some degree of imaginative post-processing, we encourage participants to maintain a grounding in reality. Remember, the primary audience for this exhibition is senior adults, many of whom are no longer able to travel extensively. Through your image, we hope viewers will experience the world as you imagined it in the moment you pressed the shutter?whether that world is intimate and focused, like a portrait, or a wonder of nature, architecture, or expansive, like a landscape or cityscape.
Images will be judged on technical excellence, lighting, composition, and the judge?s assessment of their appeal to our intended audience.
Subject Matter
Natural subjects, including landscapes, isolated scenes or arrangements, wildlife, wildflowers, insects or macros and the like are preferred. Buildings and other structures are acceptable, particularly if they showcase a regional historic or cultural character or are part of the landscape. Abstract images, without a recognizable subject, are discouraged. Photo illustrations, such as composites, or strongly altered images are acceptable so long as they do not, in the opinion of the judge, misrepresent the subject, its context, or otherwise tend to mislead the viewer. Images that portray abuse, misuse or degradation of nature are not acceptable. Nude images will not be appropriate. Both color and black and white images are acceptable. Images of people are acceptable, but images of recognizable people should not be submitted unless a release signed by the subject(s) or legal guardian(s) can be provided. You can use either the form provided by Homewood at Frederick, or your own form, provided it covers the use of images as specified in 'Photographer's Rights and Use of Images by Homewood at Frederick'.