“Beauty and Adventures in the DWGNRA"

Submissions may be made from now until Saturday August 3rd.

Our annual calendar contest is now open for submissions!  We have been doing an annual calendar contest since 2020 and never tire of seeing and honoring the excellent photographers of our area. We offer 4 different categories for the photos.  Each category will have a winner chosen for a prize of $50.  Other honorable mention awards will be chosen to appear in the calendar to fill out the 12 months and the cover.  

• Landscapes and Waterfalls:
• Wildlife
• Recreation in the Park
• Historical Structures and Miscellaneous

The annual contest takes submissions that feature the wildlife, beautiful scenery, historical structures, and fun activities one can find in the Park. They can be taken on either side of the Delaware River and there is no dating limit on when the photos were taken, but they must be taken by you. 

You must submit your photos by August 3rd! They will then be turned over to the judges and the calendar will be planned. 

You must specify on the submission form how the photos can be used. If the photos may used by the National Park Service (and Friends of DWGNRA) for marketing (all forms) and display at the Headquarters building, please respond "NPS" to the release question on the submission form. This does place any photo the NPS can use in the Public Domain. NPS and Friends of DWGNRA will always give credit to the photographer whenever a photo is used.  If you want to release only to the Friends of DWGNRA for the calendar and marketing purposes, just say "Friends".  If you want to limit the Friends use to calendar only (no marketing use), just say "Calendar".

The cost to enter is $5 for 4 photographs.  They must be named with the Photographers name - title of the photo as to where it was taken. An example is "John Doe - Marie Zimmermann House".

Please fill out the form below where your photos can be attached, and then make the payment for the submission.  You may pay for more than one submission at once, but you must make multiple submissions of 4 photographs each.  For instance, if you want to send 12 photos - pay $15 and fill out the submission form 3 times with 4 photos in each submission. For large files, you may need to do multiple submission anyway - please consider resizing them.

The contest was held in partnership with the Pocono Photo club. Judges for 2024 were Darice Pauselius, (Pocono Arts Council), Kathleen Reilly (Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau), and Kevin Furst (Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau) - huge thank you to all three judges!!! It's a tough job! The Winners in each of the 4 categories are: 

• Landscapes and Waterfalls: Maurie Harmon - Hackers Falls
  
• Wildlife: Stephen Warshaw - Cedar Waxwing Milford Beach
  
• ​Recreation in the Park: Richard Cramer - Dingmans Falls Walkway
  
• ​Historical Structures and Miscellaneous: Eric Goins - Zimmerman Farm

Honorable Mentions were also chosen to be in the calendar to fill out the 12 months and cover.  They are allow shown below.  Thank you for all of us at the Friends for the excellent photographers entered this year!! 

The calendar pictures are shown in order below (verticals are cropped for website, but not for the calendar): 

Cover - Paul Kovalski Jr - Delaware River from Mt Tammany

Jan - Richard Cramer - Dingmans Falls Walkway

Feb - Stephen Warshaw - Red Bellied Woodpecker McDade Trail

Mar - Eric Goins - Zimmerman Farm

Apr - Maurie Harmon - Hackers Falls

May - Charlie Fineran - Bear cubs Donkey Hollow Trail

Jun - Richard Cramer - Bushkill Access

Jul - Paul Kovalski Jr. - Cinnabar Chanterelle Mushroom Fossil Trail

Aug - Richard Cramer - Millbrook Village wagon

Sep - Stephen Warshaw - Cedar Waxwing Milford Beach

Oct - Maurie Harmon - Hidden Lake

Nov - Karen Keenan -Smithfield Beach

​Dec - Thomas Dillon - Raymondskill Falls, tallest in PA