NBP Awards Competitions

The Nature's Best Photography Awards Mission since 1995: To discover, celebrate, and display the creative and documentary works of dedicated nature photographers and visual storytellers of all ages and levels of expertise. RETURN TO HOMEPAGE

ENTER the 2025 Best Backyards Photo Contest NOW! (see links)

GET ALL THE DETAILS: See the suggested photo topics and ethical rules on the Entry Guidelines. CLICK ON THE LINKS ABOVE to log in or start a new contest user account, and start your entries today! DEADLINE EXTENDED. You will have time to upload/edit photos and captions while we prepare the winter issue for publication. Youth aged 18 and under ENTER FOR FREE!

Bookmark this page and check back often! ADD YOUR EMAIL TO OUR LIST FOR CONTEST UPDATES (NO SPAM): Questions? awards@naturesbestphotography.org

View past Best Backyards Galleries for inspiration:

Congratulations to the Top 100 in the 2025 NBP Awards Gallery:

The NBP Awards Winners and Highly Honored contests finalists appear in the Nature's Best Photography magazine where you get the stories behind the shots! You may order the single issue and back issues for $18 each, plus shipping, or save and Renew, Subscribe, or Give a Gift to get two big, award-winning issues for the best price of $30 in the USA.

The next National Parks Contest dates will appear here. View the past Parks Galleries below:

NBP / AWF Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards & Traveling Exhibition

The Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards was a wonderful two-year global photographic competition run in alliance with the African Wildlife Foundation to help celebrate their 60 years of conservation leadership and to raise awareness and support for AWF programs protecting the unique wildlife and wild lands of Africa: "Bringing the World to Africa, and Africa to the World."

Photos of Africa should now be entered in the NBP Awards competitions.

See the past Mkapa winners:

Join us on this virtual journey into the wild. Your participation in and support of the NBP Awards is key to our future success in program development and fulfillment.

With your support, together we can make a difference in the lives of many.