Weekly Photo Contest | January 27 2026 - February 3, 2026 | Trees

[cjsuk]

Been stuck in or around the city for a week or and am missing the outdoors.

Hence, show us your best photos of trees!

And not Christmas trees because we're done with that now 😂

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As always, the standard rules apply:

• The photographs must be your own work. No AI generated images.
• You may only submit one photo per contest.
• No commenting or liking photos until after the judging has taken place.
• This contest runs for about a week, starting now.
• At the end of the competition, the judge (last week's winner) will choose a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place photo, providing as much feedback as possible.
• The 1st place winner will start a new thread here with the topic/theme of their choice, and act as the judge for that contest. (Winner has 48 hours to create new theme, after that it defers to 2nd place).
• Be sure to update the Contest Master List as soon as you post a new theme.
• Contest will end Feb 3rd, 2026 at approximately 12:00 GMT.

 

[thirsty_monk]

 

[oblomow]

 

[Snowlover]

 

[iPhone-Guy]

 

[C0ncreteBl0nde]

 

[goldmac2006]

 

[tcphoto1]

 

[someoldguy]

 

[Janichsan]

 

[OldMacs4Me]

Young Cottonwood growing in the rubble at the base of the Frank Slide. As always best viewed at full resolution.

 

[arkitect]

Winter…
Bath, Somerset

OM-5
M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8

 

[cjsuk]

Ok competition now closed. Sorry a few hours late. I hit the forum earlier and was just getting 403 errors so skipped a bit.

Judging will commence later today if I get a minute!

Edit: sorry this will have to happen tomorrow - have a bit of an emergency going on with a family member.

 

[cjsuk]

Ok sorry for the delay. Here we go. I am unfortunately going to have to skip the detailed comments today because I'm a little short on time due to other pressures. Grr. I'd like to say that the entries here, as always, are amazing quality and it's really hard to judge.

I've broken down everything on three points: brief, artistic, quality and rated them 1-5. Then ranked them. There wasn't a lot between them so if you're not featured it's not because you're somewhere down the bottom of the list - everyone is at or very near the top scores!

Podium:

1st: @C0ncreteBl0nde

2nd: joint @Janichsan and @arkitect

3rd: joint @someoldguy and @Snowlover

Thanks everyone and again apologies for the lack of detailed feedback this time.

 

[C0ncreteBl0nde]

Oh wow...I just woke up and I didn't expect this! Thank you @cjsuk for the 1st place; I loved all the entries. Congrats to the other podium winners...certainly, everyone deserves to be there.

I will wake up with the help of some caffeine and will try to come up with a new contest by the end of the day. Great theme with great entries; it will be hard to top this!

 

[C0ncreteBl0nde]

New contest is up HERE .