Annual member contests are a tradition at the Native Plant Society of Texas. Once again this year we will have contests in photography, short videos and chapter newsletters. Winners will be recognized at our fall symposium.
We will let you know later when the time comes for submitting your entries. But it is not too early to start thinking about which contests you want to enter.
Our photography contest is actually 12 contests in one. There is a separate winning photo for each of the 12 Level III ecoregions as shown on this map on our website. You can enter as many ecoregions as you want, as long as your photo was taken in the ecoregion, and the plant is native to that ecoregion. Check out some of the past winners in our Smugmug gallery.
This is the tenth year we have held a video contest. We are talking about short videos of five minutes or less, with a subject matter relating to native plants. Check out past entries in the video contest playlists on our YouTube channel. For hints on making short videos register for the upcoming webinar on April 17 by Lee Smith, an Emmy award winning video producer with over 40 years of professional experience.
Finally we will have a third contest for chapter newsletters. If you are proud of your chapter newsletter, tell the editor or your chapter president to enter it in the contest. You can’t win if you don’t enter.
We also need contest judges!
Each of our contests is judged by a panel of members. It is not hard to do and is actually a lot of fun. We supply a worksheet for you to use in judging, and you can do it on your own time.
If you would like to help judge or have any questions about the contests contact Bill Hopkins at bill.hopkins@npsot.org.
