Bicycle Travel Photo Contest
The winner of each category will receive $300 cash. Winners and honorable mentions will receive free one-year Classic Adventure Cyclist membership with Adventure Cycling. Chosen images will be printed in Adventure Cyclist magazine. Payments can only be made to a US-based bank account.
Your original images in digital format, capturing all aspects of bike travel, are eligible for the competition. Images will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact, and artistic merit.
Enter up to five (5) images per category, upload your submission(s) to Adventure Cycling before December 31, 2024, at 11:59 PM Mountain Time.
Photos must have been taken between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024, with the exception of the First Bike Adventure category.
Submissions must include:
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A print-quality, high-resolution jpeg image file no less than 4000 pixels on the long side, no smaller than 8 MB
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An image title
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The location in which the image was taken and route name, if applicable
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A description of the trip, circumstances, etc. to be used as an image caption if your photo is chosen
The 16th Annual Bicycle Travel Photo Contest is open to ALL photographers at least 18 years of age.
Entrants must not submit images that infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person.
Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified. Multiple exposures that have been combined to produce a single “High Dynamic Range” image are acceptable.
Entries may originate in any format — including, but not limited to digital files, digital prints, color transparencies, color prints, or black and white prints — so long as they are submitted electronically. Previously published material for which non-exclusive rights were granted may be entered as long as you still maintain the right to grant us a license (see “Your Rights”). You must disclose when and where the image appeared previously to Adventure Cycling.
Your Rights
You will retain all rights to any photograph you submit — including ownership if applicable — other than those rights licensed in the next sentence. By entering the contest, you hereby grant to Adventure Cycling Association (i) a nonexclusive, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform the photographs you submit to Adventure Cycling, and (ii) the right to use your name, city, state, and country of residence in promotions and other publications in perpetuity.
Adventure Cyclist will offer photographer compensation commensurate with our standard rates for any editorial use in Adventure Cyclist magazine beyond the publication of winning images in a 2025 issue (use in an Adventure Cycling house advertisement does not qualify).
By entering this contest, you agree to certain legal conditions.
Questions and inquiries about contest rules can be emailed to magazine@adventurecycling.org.