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Photo Challenge The Photo Challenge inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons. Monthly thematic competitions encourage participants to try new subjects, new photographic or processing techniques, and to develop skills while improving the Commons repository of free images. Photographs entered into a competition must be new to Commons and taken by a Commons user.

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Challenges

Challenges are based on a theme and run for a month. The theme may be a concrete subject, an abstract concept, a photographic technique or artistic style.

Participation

Everybody can participate in challenges open for submission. You simply

1. Choose one or all of the current challenges
2. Read the challenge description(s), which may vary in their rules (e.g., some place restrictions on when the photos are taken)
3. Take picture(s) for the challenge(s) during the challenge period (or, if allowed, select from your own existing pictures that are not yet on Commons)
4. Upload your picture(s) during the challenge period
5. Submit your candidates at the top of the current challenge gallery during the challenge period. To do that you click the [Edit] button of the Entries section of your chosen challenge and insert the File name above the last entry (or above File:-Insert image here-.svg for the first entry).

   Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

   Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

   For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

6. Do not sign your submission(s)
7. If you want, you can have a look at previous challenges and Vote

Challenges are open to any Commons user. Submissions must be your own work, not previously uploaded to Commons prior to the challenge date and should illustrate the challenge theme in the opinion of the photographer. Please read the challenge descriptions, as there may be additional rules or explanations for specific challenges. There is no limit on the number of submissions per user (unless specially so restricted in the challenge), but please choose from among your best and most varied images.

To submit pictures, you edit the gallery of the contest and add your candidate(s) to the top of the list.

New themes can be proposed and discussed here.

Assessment

After the challenge has closed to new submissions, the pictures will be assessed by popularity voting in the subsequent month. You are allowed to vote for images submitted by others if your Commons account is at least ten days old and has more than 50 edits or if you participated in one of the challenges. Challenges open for voting can be found here.

Winning

The best three pictures will be awarded first, second and third place. They will be displayed on the Photo challenge page and may use the template {{Photo challenge winner}} on the file description page.

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Challenges open for submission

2026 – May – Oceanography

The new challenge features Oceanography.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout May UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. May 2026 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 1 days 8 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  A collection of seashells on the Baltic Sea beach at Warnemünde
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  A colony of herons on the Atlantic coast
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  A monkfish (Lophius piscatorius) is lying out of the water
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  Wild jumping dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) photographed in a northwestern part of the Indian Ocean.
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  Starfish display at the Oceanarium of Vladivostok
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  Scallop aquaculture display at Asamushi Aquarium
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  Large tank with a sardine school at Notojima Aquarium
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  Tsunami experiment tank at Tokai University Marine Science Museum
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  Sea turtle release
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  Un bidon, un flotteur, que fait-il ?
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  Megalodon jaws at American Museum of Natural History
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  Calliostoma formosense
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  Sea urchin on the sand in the Persian Gulf.
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  A specimen of a blue whale
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  Corals at the Museum of the World Ocean, Kaliningrad
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  Sperm whale skeleton, Museum of the World Ocean, Kaliningrad
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  Bivalve clam in the intertidal zone, Tersky Coast of the White Sea
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  Chamelea gallina shells in the intertidal zone, Tersky Coast of the White Sea
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  Rotes Meer - Marsa Alam. Hotel The Three Corners Equinox Beach Resort. Ägypten.
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  Ägypten, Rotes Meer. Das Korallenriff am Grand Makadi Hotel, Makadi Bay.
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  Former research vessel "Lance" of the Norwegian Polar Institute at the pier of the research station Ny Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway, 1986 (Scan of a slide)
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  Former research vessel "Gauss" of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Port of Hamburg, Germany, 2003 (Scan of a slide)
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  Underwater laboratory "Helgoland", in operation from 1972 to 1981, Meeresmuseum Stalsund, Nautineum Dänholm, Rügen Island, Germany
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  Hydrological computer equipment (around the late 1980s), Meeresmuseum Stalsund, Nautineum Dänholm, Rügen Island, Germany
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  Praterie di Posidonia oceanica, fondali oltre la costa di Marciana Marina (Isola d'Elba)
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  Coral reef under the Arabian Sea
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  It is a Beach Morning Glory flower that grew on the sandy beach of Lakshadweep, India.
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  This is a Horned Ghost Crab on the beach of Lakshadweep, India.
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  The dissection of a beached Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
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  A specimen of Japanese giant spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi).
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  Penguin at the Tennōji Zoo viewed from below
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  Piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri in Montreal Biodome (Canada)
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  A junk tire was trapped on Laomei Green Reef.
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  Ancient diver in the Museum of the World Ocean
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  German Wadden Sea at low Tide: clusters of coiled castings of lugworms (Arenicola marina)cover the mud flats and a washed up barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) in the foreground
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  Laboratory Experiment at Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR): Environmental tolerance of different populations of native Gammarus species
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  Geomar’s research vessel FS Alkor moored at the quay in the port of Kiel, out of action due to the coronavirus pandemic
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  The research vessel FS Polarstern of Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven
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  A Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) washed ashore in the North Sea, Rømø island, Denmark
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  Taken at Blackpool Beach, overlooking the Irish Sea
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  Bathyplane "Tetis" in the Museum of the World Ocean
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  Crab (Grapsus tenuicrustatus) on the coast of Salalah, among rocks in the lagoon of the Arabian Sea - part of the Indian Ocean.
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  Little life trying to survive underwater
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  More such greens going to retain the water bodies
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  Too polluted to enter in?
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  Plastic plastic everywhere
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  Where the day begins in gold.
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  Archaephippus Asper, replica
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  Seagulls circling a Ferry Service from Mumbai Port to Alibaugh in Arabian Sea
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  The underside of the arm of the starfish Marthasterias glacialis
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  Hakurei, a marine resource research vessel of Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC).
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  Shell Collection
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  Thornback ray (Raja clavata), a juvenile seen from below. Bergen, Norway
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  African penguin colony at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town, South Africa
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  big white spider conch shell approximately 23 cm long and 17 cm wide
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  Geomorfologia di un tratto della Costa di Aljezur sull'Oceano Atlantico e presso la foce del fiume Seixe (Portogallo)
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  Francobollo Italiano del 1978, serie 'il Mare deve vivere', Cernia (Epinephelus marginatus).
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  Historic specimen of a shark, Strahov Library, Prague
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  Historic specimens of rays, Strahov Library, Prague
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  Historic specimens of oceanic creatures, Strahov Library, Prague
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  Historic specimens of crabs, Strahov Library, Prague
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  Banded triangle clam (Donax trunculus) on the beach of Sérignan Plage, FR
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  Mediterranean shore crab (Carcinus aestuarii) on the beach of Sérignan Plage, FR
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  Pulmonary jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) on the beach at Sérignan Plage, FR
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  General Sea Fisheries Inspectorate, field office in Ustka seaside resort
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  Sunrise at Elliot's Beach,Chennai, India
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  Get set ready for fishing at the sunrise
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  Ocean viewed from old weathered stone arch
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  Setting sun in ocean coloring the sky pink
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  One Shoreline, one fisherman awaiting the catch
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  Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) in Biodôme de Montréal (Canada)
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  Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula).- Nausicaá (Boulogne-sur-Mer) France
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  A group of pelicans and other aquatic birds gathered on some rocks on the shore at the La Jolla Shores Beach.
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  Ausstellung zu regionalen Sardinenfischerei und -konservierung.
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  Abandoned Strand Jetty, South Africa: marine life clings to weathered timber where ships once docked.
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2026 – May – Horizontal lines

The new challenge features Horizontal lines.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout May UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. May 2026 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 1 days 8 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  A view through the railings of the Waldschlößchen Bridge onto the River Elbe in Dresden
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  A protective grille in the IGA Park Rostock
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  Evening atmosphere by the sea at the entrance to Rostock harbour
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  In a building under reconstruction, a historic window is protected by wooden boards
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  The sun is below the horizon
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  Seagull, horizon line
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  Footprints, beach, horizon line
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  A horizontal line formed from a head of Guinness beer
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  Bridges in Bratislava, Apollo Bridge in front and Harbour Bridge in back (Slovakia).
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  Immeuble Lumière - Paris 12
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  Immeuble près des quais St-Emilion - Paris 12
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  Immeuble près des quais St-Emilion - Paris 12
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  croisement de trains à grande vitesse – filé
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  Horizontal Line Building
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  Horizontal Architecture with Flying Vulture
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  Evening Light On Building
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  A dual-height handrail at JR Toyama Station, Japan
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  Blind shadows pattern on a bowl with three oranges
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  My room, window with a light curtain
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  The UMCS rector's office building in Lublin, Poland
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  :Felled trees on a cart - the village of Męćmierz near Kazimierz Dolny
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  A bench in winter-"Czechów" housing estate, Lublin, Poland
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  Mine d'ocre
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  Cantharellus cibarius
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  Saarpolygon in Ensdorf Saarland
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  Berlin-Marzahn, high-rise buildings at Helene-Weigel-Platz, seen from Springpfuhl-Park.
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  Berlin-Marzahn, high-rise buildings at Helene-Weigel-Platz.
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  Double rainbow on an apartment building
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  Glass Wall design creates Horizontal Lines
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  Wooden buckets (Teoke / 手桶) on a shelf (Teoke-dana / 手桶棚) and ladles (Hishaku / 柄杓) at Yanaka Cemetery in Tokyo
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  Ecocathedral in Mildam municipality of Heerenveen, Part of surplus building material stacked in a special way.
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  Knitted pullover for a member of our family, self made.
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  Bridge across the Teriberka River
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  Pumping station at the oil terminal
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  No way
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  View from Pferdskopf looking west towards the Taunus mountains in a distance of 108 km
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  2026 Miami GP grandstand aspect
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  Kornwerderzand Museum. Detail of casemate with firing slit.
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  Rangierbahnhof Limmattal, seen from a train
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  Round led lights above wooden beams
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  Mantis religiosa
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  Disk golf disks
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  power pole on a bright day.
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  Sonnenblumenfeld bei Glaubitz. Landkreis Meißen in Sachsen.
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  Painted staircase in the museum "Pommersches Landesmuseum", Greifswald, Germany
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  Boardwalk at geyser "Old Faithfull", Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA
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  Painted staircase on Via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour (artist: Carlo Coniglio), Noto, Italy
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  Terraces of copper mining, Bingham Canyon Mine, southwest of Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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  Photo of some electricity cables taken on Navalagamella
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  Taken on the ground floor of the Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
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  Sonnenuntergang über den Atlantik, betrachte von Faial
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  Blick in den Braunkohle-Tagebau in Inden (Rheinland)
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  Impression am Rhein-Herne-Kanal
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  Ansicht des Rhein von der Halde Rockelsberg auf die gegenüberliegenden Hafenanlagen, Duisburg
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  Fencing Lines protection at Cubbon Park, Bengaluru, India
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  Tourists leaning at parapet lines of Dolphin's Nose View Point at Coonoor, Nilgiris
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  Pattern of Lines at Parry's Corner, Chennai, India
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  View through window grid lines of Government Museum at Bengaluru
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  Time ON LINE
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  Okayama Castle seen through an art installation
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  Interior of Senjokaku, Toyokuni Shrine, Miyajima
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  Atrium of Kojimachi NS Building, Tokyo
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  Circular window corridor at Yokosuka Museum of Art
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  Grand Canyon West – panoramic view from Guano Point
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  Staff gauge on Buffumville Dam
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  Saint Pétersbourg Doors of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Russia
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  Terp fan de Takomst near Blije is located in Noard-Fryslân Bûtendyks. Part of the project in progress.
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  City Landscape on Horizontal Line
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  Unterführung Essen Hauptbahnhof_Lichtinstallation
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  Sonnenaufgang über dem Roten Meer. Makadi Bay, Ägypten.
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  Spitfire showing off the invasion stripes on the underside of its wings.
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  Red Arrows flying in formation leaving behind parallel smoke trails.
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  Praga R1 with a livery showing aerodynamics inspired lines across the car.
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  JR Kyushu Station Hotel Kokura in Japan
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  Mohnfeld bei Grumbach in Sachsen. Landschaftsschutzgebiet Mulden- und Chemnitztal.
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  Stromnetz. Seiltausch für höhere Übertragungsleistung
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  Dado Sura above Breil/Brigels. Skihut/restaurant Alp Dado Sura (2070m.) Terrace fence.
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  A street stage decorated in the national Yakut style
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  A street stage decorated in the national Yakut style
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  Staccionate di legno lungo il ruscello alle Terme di Sorano (Toscana)
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  橱窗内的滑雪者与水平线
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  Port Adelaide View 1
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  Port Adelaide View 2
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  Esposizione di vasi fioriti nel borgo di Santa Fiora (Toscana)
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  Observation deck at the funicular station on Hrebienok, High Tatras, Slovakia.
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  Strings of a grand piano
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  Hâble d'Ault seen from Cayeux-sur-Mer, France
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  Chambre à 6 lits, sous-marin le Redoutable
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  Lesser Yellowlegs in a puddle.
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  Miami street view from Brickell City Center
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  Buildings in Toronto
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  Life philosophy sign
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  Tunnel ventilation at Vienna Central Station, with butterfly bushes growing in front of it
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  Yellow markings on the Luchtsingel Path, an expensive project launched in 2015 to improve the quality of life in Rotterdam, but which soon fell into disrepair
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  Yards and masts of the cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ship Peking, now a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany
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  Steel steps of the Elia artwork after a rain, Birk Centerpark, Herning, Denmark
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  Shop display at Munich Central Station, D.
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  Eglise Saint-Joseph, Paris, F.
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  Wooden shoes on Ameland, Netherlands.
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  Oystercatchers on Ameland, NL.
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  Horisontal bars of tram poles in Dnipro, Ukraine.
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  Schlechtes Wetter für Biergärten
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  Bank im Hafen von Stralsund
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  Horizontal vineyard wires in a vineyard in contre-jour
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  Hikers walk through a horizontal snow bridge
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  Horizontal tyre casts on a sandy beach
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  Lawn edge in a front garden
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  Horizontal lines of the chairlift for skiers from Štrbské Pleso to Solisko - Furkota, High Tatras, Slovakia.
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  Picketing workers and students rally on Revson Plaza above Amsterdam Avenue during the 2021 Columbia strikes
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  Trackage at NYC's Marble Hill–225th street station
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  Rapsfeld beim Hohndorf. Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.
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  Drainage pit cover near fountain of Yuzhno-Primorsky Park, Saint Petersburg
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  Escalator of Chernyshevskaya metrostation in Saint Petersburg
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  The Mekong, in Laos, near Pak Beng
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  Is this man washing the windows or painting clouds
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  Crescent Moon next to Venus at 5:40am in Brasilia, DF Brazil
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  underside of the JK Bridge in Brasilia, DF Brazil dissapearing into the morning fog
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  a mural on the wall with a checkerboard sidewalk. Brasilia, DF Brazil
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  Caught the Sun red handed
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  Love locks filled bridge railing
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  Towards end of the life
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  Flexible shelfs of the study room
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  Red and white - vertical and horizontal lines
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  Small abandoned building through a glass-less window
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  sky is the limit
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  the Dusk
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  Sunset over Lake Kownackie, Mrówki, Poland
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  Sunset on the beach in Santa Monica, California, USA
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  Exterior of Sound barrier wall while a bus was running on the elevated road at night.
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  Dot pattern zebra crossing with Vehicle light trails in Bade District, Taoyuan City at night
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  Mezereon in the nature reserve Murnauer Moos
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  window
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  Warehouse wall
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  Chikurin-ji temple in Kochi, Japan
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  Balconies in PMQ, Hong Kong
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  Beach hut in Southwold, Suffolk, England
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  Beach huts at the Plage de Calais, France
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  Vineyard in Kallstadt, Palatinate, Germany with trellising
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  garden bench in winter
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  Shadows on a sidewalk, Zakopane, Poland
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  Horizontal and vertical lines of Victoria Palace facade, Prague, Czechia
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  Pankrác metro station, reopened after reconstruction, with partially attached marble siding; Prague, Czechia
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  Municipal district office of Prague 15, Czechia
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  Lijnenspel, een foto gemaakt van kunstwerk gemaakt door Anja Namink
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  Book-shaped tree bark specimen in a Xylotheque in the Strahov Library, Prague
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  Esslingen city wall, steps to the castle, GER
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  Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam open for ships
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  Les Planches beach promenade in the French seaside resort of Deauville
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  Stone bridge of Hohenrechberg Castle, GER
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  Crepuscular rays cloudy sky seaview with a moving line of jet skiing on the Bashi Channel sea in the afternoon
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  Nature Landscape from Seaview tower in Kenting Forest Recreation Area on February 18
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  Bridges in Ustka
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  Stairs connecting the Lone Poplar and the Holy Spring, Protected Area in the Republic of Kalmykia
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  Horizontal Lines in a field of Verlinghem (Fr)
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  Horizontal Lines in a school building in Howrah City
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  Horizontal Lines created by Bus in Howrah City
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  Soffitto decorato nella Camera del Baldacchino, Castello Orsini-Odescalchi di Bracciano
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  Lanterns in Kasuga-taisha shrine (Nara, Japan)
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  Last trip of the bird while the sunset
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  Rustic steps rising upwards
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  Parallel lines for drying the clothes
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  Sweating iron
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  A cat stares out of a window, surrounded by horizontal siding, in Duluth, Minnesota in the Central Hillside neighborhood.
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  Cuneiform on clay cylinders dedicated to Iddin-Dagan, Louvre-Lens museum (Fr)
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  The horizon holds secrets only the sky understands.
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  Over the Horizon
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  Sea view at Naminoue Umisora Park, Naha, Okinawa
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  Stormy sunset over La Gomera
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  Strand railway station is the main railway station of Strand and sounrounding towns
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  Building on Strand beachfront at twilight.
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  Shoes in the corner
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  Stairs in the forest.
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  Inside at the convention center in Bayugan City with horizontal lines each including at the Taekwondo mat with yellow and red horizontal lines.
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Challenges open for voting

Voting is open to all registered contributors who have held accounts for at least 10 days and made 50 edits, and also to new Commons contributors who have entered the challenge with a picture. Users cannot vote for their own picture. Voters may select up to three photographs in each theme to award points and can give praise to other photos without awarding points. Voting will be open for one month. The votes not complying with those requirements will be removed or converted to praises. In some cases users might be asked to correct their votes after voting ends.

April 2026

• 2026 – April – Wooden bridges
• 2026 – April – Fair grounds

Previous challenges

March 2026

Three-wheelers: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Child with a tricycle in Reggio Emilia 1982	BMW Kneeler team BJ.1973 at the mountain race in Würgau	War es so in der Steinzeit?
Author	Ermell	Ermell	Mensch01
Score	32	15	11

Town entrances: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Solitaire, Namibia	Entrance of Marigny in Jura department, France	Town sign of the city of Stralsund with common buzzard, Stralsund, Germany
Author	Choinowski	Spielvogel	Mozzihh
Score	22	12	11

February 2026

First aid: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	A labrador retriever of the search and rescue dog unit of the Austrian Red Cross. Vienna 2025, Austria.	Lifting a person in a rescue basket.	REGA rescue team
Author	Aciarium	Julian Herzog	Roy Egloff
Score	20	12	9

Orange: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Woman in traditional orange dress called Buhara sun, Buhara, Uzbekistan	Fire burns, but makes you warm and relaxed	People viewing trees across the pond, illuminated by the setting sun.
Author	PetarM	Maryam Yazdanisheldareh	Ka23 13
Score	14	11	9

January 2026

Brutalist architecture: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Architectural detail on The National Theatre in London.	beautiful brutalism in Metz	Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, 1969, currently digitized
Author	Julian Herzog	KaiBorgeest	Foeniz
Score	29	12	12

Peace: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
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Title	Signpost in Christiania (Copenhagen).	Artistic peace symbol at Toronto Distillery District	Menhire für den Frieden
Author	Gzzz	Muzzudan	Fischer1961
Score	10	9	9

Previous years

• Photo challenge in 2026
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• Photo challenge in 2024
• Photo challenge in 2023
• Photo challenge in 2022
• Photo challenge in 2021
• Photo challenge in 2020
• Photo challenge in 2019
• Photo challenge in 2018
• Photo challenge in 2017
• Photo challenge in 2016
• Photo challenge in 2015
• Photo challenge in 2014
• Photo challenge in 2013