September challenge: Your Best Work
This month, I am looking forward to seeing your personal favorite—your best work! How you interpret this is entirely up to you. Whether it is a stunning landscape, a powerful portrait, or a perfectly timed street shot, anything goes. If it is an image that you are proud to call your best, I want to see it!
Guidelines for Everyone
We want this challenge to be a fun and welcoming space for photographers of all ages and backgrounds. To keep it that way, please follow these simple ground rules:
Family-Friendly Content: Please keep all submissions family-friendly. This means no nudity, graphic violence, politically motivated content, or highly controversial and provocative subject matter.
Originality: Please only submit work that you have captured yourself.
Permissions: If your image features people, please ensure you have the proper model release or permission to use their likeness.
Important Dates
Submissions: The upload form will open from September 1st until September 30th at 23:59 CET.
Display: All images will be visible in the gallery below after September 1st once they are uploaded.
Voting: The voting phase will officially begin on October 1st.
Looking for the next challenge? If you want to prepare for the future, please check out next month's challenge!
Check out the examples below for a little inspiration, and get your best work ready for September!
Join the Monthly Photography Challenge
Every month, I host a photography challenge via my YouTube channel and this website. On this page, you can view all submitted images and vote for your favorites once the challenge period has concluded.
At the end of each month, I will showcase and discuss the 10 most-voted images in a dedicated YouTube video. My own submissions will be included anonymously, and alongside the top 10, I will feature three randomly selected images and reveal which one was mine.
How to Participate If you would like to join this month’s challenge, please submit your image using the form below.
You may submit one image per challenge.
Please ensure your images do not include watermarks or names.
Once the submission period ends, voting will open on this page, and the next challenge will be announced on YouTube and this website.
There is nothing to win or lose—these challenges are purely for fun and for learning from one another. I am looking forward to seeing your entries, so please feel free to be as creative as you like!
Submission Guidelines
Maximum file size: 10 MB
File format: JPG
Minimum size: 2500 pixels on the longest side
Required details: Please include your name, country, and EXIF data (camera, lens, and settings) with your submission.
Example images
Share your challenge idea
Got an idea for a monthly challenge? Fill out the form here, and who knows — maybe one day your idea will show up in a video!