Rules and Conditions
- Photographs must be taken anywhere within Texas.
- Photographs must have been taken within 2 years of the entry deadline and must not have been accepted for a previous Texas Night Sky Festival® Exhibition.
- Photographers 18 years and younger at the entry deadline are eligible for the Youth Category Award.
- Entries will be judged on creativity, photographic quality, and effectiveness in conveying the beauty of
our night sky and the importance of preserving and protecting our views.
Composited images – those photographs that are created by the addition of elements from other images will be disqualified. Multiple exposures of the same scene are acceptable. Entries that fail to comply with the rules or are unsuitable for family viewing will be disqualified.
- The juror will select the photographs to be displayed in the exhibition and the award winners without knowing the identity of the photographers.
- Images may be submitted only by the photographer who created them. While the photographer retains the copyright for his or her images, the Hill Country Photography Club, PODS, the Hays County Master Naturalists, the City of Dripping Springs, and the TNSF Association reserve the right, with full and proper attribution, to unlimited use of the photos for the organizations' websites, displays, brochures, news releases, and other print and electronic media.
- The competition is open to resident and visiting photographers, amateur or professional. The contest juror is ineligible to enter photographs.
- To help defray contest expenses, a $10.00 contest entry fee is required for the first four photographs from each photographer. Up to 4 additional photographs may be entered for an additional $10.00, up to a maximum of 8 entries for $20.00.