2025 Outback Roundup Photo Contest
Calling all talented photographers who love the rural American West. Contest winners will share fame and money and publication in RANGE magazine.
Best of Show—$225
1st Place—$175
2nd Place—$150
3rd Place—$125
Plus Merit Awards—$50
DEADLINE FEBRUARY 13, 2025
We are looking for your best images of cowboys, cowgirls and sheepherders who live and work on America’s outback, plus horses, dogs and wildlife that shares the West’s open ranges.
Winner will appear in RANGE magazine during 2025 and be shared with readers from coast to coast. All you have to do is select your best, and select a way to upload photos the easiest way you can.
RULES: All rules must be followed and a completed and signed entry form must be submitted. One photographer per packet, a maximum of five images, plus a fee of $5 per image.
CONTENT: All photos must be of the people, places, and critters of America’s rangelands. They can be in color or black and white, amateur or professional. Entries must be submitted digitally as high-resolution JPEGs or PNGs via our FTP site (preferred), WeTransfer or Dropbox. You can also mail a thumb drive with images, caption information, entry form and payment before the deadline to RANGE, P.O. Box 639, Carson City, NV 89702. Media will NOT be returned but will be secured at the RANGE offices or destroyed.
TECHNICAL GUIDELINES: Send high-res JPEGs or PNGs. Minimum size: 3 megapixels (multiply pixel height x width).
FILE NAMES: Label each image with your phone number and a numeral to match the image, like this: 775-555-1212-3. Do not include names or dates in the file name but make sure to include detailed captions that match your image label and will assist in publication.
IMAGE MANIPULATION: No cloning of physical objects or major shifts in color or tonalities—that means no removing telephone poles or adding border collies! Cropping, subtle color corrections and contrast adjustments, conversion to black and white, and removal of spots are allowed. Photos with watermarks, names or date stamps will be disqualified.
IMAGE PREPARATION: Please send us high-resolution images to facilitate publication on high-quality slick paper. To check previous winners, go to www.rangemagazine.com and click on the Summer, Fall and Winter issues of recent back issues.
PERMISSION: Contestants must grant permission to use entries for possible publication in future RANGE magazines, calendars and books. It may also be used for future contest publicity. Calendar, book or magazine use (with other feature stories) all earn extra money.
Start shooting now!
Upload up to five of your best hi-res images (JPEGs or PNGs) to our FTP site or via WeTransfer. Please email edit@rangemagazine.com to let us know your images are ready for pickup from our FTP site. WeTransfer will notify us.
Early submissions are appreciated with final deadline February 13, 2025. Please email edit@rangemagazine.com if you have any questions and to check previous photo contest winners, go to rangemagazine.com and click on recent Summer, Fall and Winter issues.
Don’t forget! Contestants have earned cash, starred in RANGE books, the Real Buckaroo Calendar, and have also been featured in award-winning RANGE—and were paid for each use!
GOOD LUCK!
2025 Outback Roundup Photo Contest
Calling all talented photographers who love the rural American West. Contest winners will share fame and money and publication in RANGE magazine.
Best of Show—$225
1st Place—$175
2nd Place—$150
3rd Place—$125
Plus Merit Awards—$50
DEADLINE FEBRUARY 13, 2025
We are looking for your best images of cowboys, cowgirls and sheepherders who live and work on America’s outback, plus horses, dogs and wildlife that shares the West’s open ranges.
Winner will appear in RANGE magazine during 2025 and be shared with readers from coast to coast. All you have to do is select your best, and select a way to upload photos the easiest way you can.
RULES: All rules must be followed and a completed and signed entry form must be submitted. One photographer per packet, a maximum of five images, plus a fee of $5 per image.
CONTENT: All photos must be of the people, places, and critters of America’s rangelands. They can be in color or black and white, amateur or professional. Entries must be submitted digitally as high-resolution JPEGs or PNGs via our FTP site (preferred), WeTransfer or Dropbox. You can also mail a thumb drive with images, caption information, entry form and payment before the deadline to RANGE, P.O. Box 639, Carson City, NV 89702. Media will NOT be returned but will be secured at the RANGE offices or destroyed.
TECHNICAL GUIDELINES: Send high-res JPEGs or PNGs. Minimum size: 3 megapixels (multiply pixel height x width).
FILE NAMES: Label each image with your phone number and a numeral to match the image, like this: 775-555-1212-3. Do not include names or dates in the file name but make sure to include detailed captions that match your image label and will assist in publication.
IMAGE MANIPULATION: No cloning of physical objects or major shifts in color or tonalities—that means no removing telephone poles or adding border collies! Cropping, subtle color corrections and contrast adjustments, conversion to black and white, and removal of spots are allowed. Photos with watermarks, names or date stamps will be disqualified.
IMAGE PREPARATION: Please send us high-resolution images to facilitate publication on high-quality slick paper. To check previous winners, go to www.rangemagazine.com and click on the Summer, Fall and Winter issues of recent back issues.
PERMISSION: Contestants must grant permission to use entries for possible publication in future RANGE magazines, calendars and books. It may also be used for future contest publicity. Calendar, book or magazine use (with other feature stories) all earn extra money.
Start shooting now!
Upload up to five of your best hi-res images (JPEGs or PNGs) to our FTP site or via WeTransfer. Please email edit@rangemagazine.com to let us know your images are ready for pickup from our FTP site. WeTransfer will notify us.
Early submissions are appreciated with final deadline February 13, 2025. Please email edit@rangemagazine.com if you have any questions and to check previous photo contest winners, go to rangemagazine.com and click on recent Summer, Fall and Winter issues.
Don’t forget! Contestants have earned cash, starred in RANGE books, the Real Buckaroo Calendar, and have also been featured in award-winning RANGE—and were paid for each use!