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2025 Alabama Renaissance Feast and Faire

Photography Contest Guidelines

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Get your cameras ready and your best poses perfected for our photography contest, where the only thing sharper than our competition is your focus! Snap a pic that’ll make us laugh, cry, or question your sanity—who knows, you might just win a prize that’s almost as great as you! (We want to offer real prizes this year -- if we can afford them)! So, are you ready to click your way to glory? Let the competition begin!

 

Get ready to flex those photography muscles because the Alabama Renaissance Faire is back with our annual photography contest! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just someone who can point and shoot without cutting off heads, we want to see your best shots that capture the magic of the Alabama Renaissance Feast (ticketed event held at the Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum on October 18, 2025) and the Alabama Renaissance Faire (free event held  at Wilson Park in Florence, AL, on October 25-26, 2025).

 

Winning photos will be immortalized in our Royal Archives, featured in magazines, may even make their way to your mom’s fridge! So grab your camera and don’t miss this chance to prove that you’ve got the eye for a good photo—and maybe snag some bragging rights while you're at it! Your photos of the Alabama Renaissance Feast or Faire may appear on our website and social media!​​

 

Rules for Submission of Entries:

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Welcome to the Alabama Renaissance Feast or Faire Photo Contest! Get your cameras ready, because here are the rules that’ll have clicking away like a jester on a sugar rush!

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1. Make sure your photos are from this year’s event—unless you’re feeling nostalgic and entering the Classic category (cue the time machine sound effects). 

Remember photos in the Feast Category should be of the 2025 Feast at the Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum on October 18, 2025. We know you drink root beer and eat vendor food at the faire, but that isn't what we mean by "Feast Category".

2. Email your masterpiece to director@thealrenfaire.org with 2025 Photography Contest in the subject line—don’t forget, we’re not mind readers! 

3. Only .jpg format allowed—no, we can’t accept your elegant PNGs or that mysterious file type you just invented! 

4. Here is the format we want you to use when you name each .jpg before attaching each submission to the e-mail: Your Name, Professional/Amateur, Category (Feast, Action, Artistic, Portrait, Scenic), Title your photo (don't title it "untitled" and please don't leave a string of random numbers), 2025 (next year's contest will be 2026). 

If these instructions are confusing, see the bottom of the page and we will give you more samples. If you ignore these instructions, we may ignore your submissions!

5. Remember, you’re limited to 5 photos total, so choose wisely—this isn’t an all-you-can-eat buffet! (We still have the Classic Category, but it now has different rules. See Below).

 

6. Deadline for submissions will be November 15, 2025.
 

7. A panel of judges will make the final determination of the winning entries based on artistic merit and suitability as a visual image for the Alabama Renaissance Feast or Faire. Winners will be notified by e-mail. 

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8. All contest photo entries become the property of the Alabama Renaissance Faire. Upon entry, the photographer grants the faire full rights to publish for any and all purposes, commercial, promotional, or otherwise. 

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Now go out there and snap those photos like the talented artist you are!​​

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Samples for how to name the .jpg

Ansel Adams, Professional, Feast, Royal Processional, 2025

Dorothea Lange, Professional, Action, SCA Knights in Battle, 2025

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Vivian Maier, Amateur, Artistic, Strolling the Lane with Elves, 2025

Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco, Amateur, Portrait, Princess with Fairy Wings, 2025

Annie Leibovitz, Amateur, Scenic, Bubbles Floating Over Conical Dwelling, 2025

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We have removed the limit of only 5 submissions from the Classic Category because we are thinking about publishing a 40th Anniversary book in 2027. Send as many past year photos as you wish, and please identify the photographer and/or year if possible!

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