American Sheep Industry is now accepting photo contest entries

It’s time to start sorting through those great photos you took the past few years and prepare to enter them in the 2023 ASI Photo Contest. Winning entries will be featured in the October issue of the Sheep Industry News.

Rules and prizes for the 2023 contest are the same as last year. Photographs entered in the contest will be judged on clarity, content, composition and appeal. More than $1,000 will be awarded, with prizes of $125 going to the first-place photographer in each of the five categories listed below; $75 for the runner-up in each category; and a $50 prize for third place in each of the five categories.

Entries must be received in the ASI office by 5 p.m. mountain time on Aug. 1, to be considered. Only the top three photographers in each category will be notified of their winnings.

The five categories in this year’s contest are:

1. Shepherd or Shepherdess—Photographs of producers, shepherds or others working with sheep.

2. Scenic (east)—Photographs of sheep outdoors located east of the Mississippi River. Photos entered in this category cannot include people.

3. Scenic (west)—Photographs of sheep outdoors located west of the Mississippi River. Photos entered in this category cannot include people.

4. Working Dogs and Protection Animals—Photographs in this category should show herding dogs, livestock guardian dogs or any other livestock protection animal in their natural environments. Photos must also include sheep in some fashion as proof that these truly are working animals.

5. Open—Photographs with subject matter that does not fall into the four above listed categories.

Entries should be emailed to Sheep Industry News Editor Kyle Partain at [email protected] with the subject line of ASI Photo Contest. Those mailing entries should send photos to ASI, Attn: Photo Contest, 9785 Maroon Circle, Suite 360, Englewood, CO 80112.

For full contest rules and information, visit sheepusa.org/asi-annual-photo-contest.