The NPS Fire & Aviation photo contest application is used to receive submissions for the annual contest and archive photos from past contests.  The photo contest is your opportunity to showcase your photos and highlight the great work taking place in fire and aviation management in the national parks, and the employees that make it a success.

Please read the following information before you upload your photos:

• By submitting my photo to the NPS Fire & Aviation photo contest, I grant to the National Park Service, its representatives and employees, the right to use the photograph I am submitting.  I authorize the National Park Service, its representatives and employees, the right to use and publish the same in print and/or electronically without limitations.
  
  
• IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING A PHOTO FOR WHICH YOU ARE NOT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Please verify that you have the photographer's permission to submit the photo. In doing so, the photographer grants agreement to the permission clause directly above.
  
  
• Uploaded photos or images (jpg, tif, png) must be large enough in size and high enough in resolution to enlarge to 8.5" x 11" without pixelization - low quality images will be disqualified.
• Photos should not be resized (see Exception), optimized, or have had a digital filter applied.
• Exception: Please note that if you upload an exceedingly large image (e.g. over 7.0 MB) your photo may not go through. You can try again during a less busy server period or resize your image to approximately 6.5 mb and it should go through.
• Photo must portray proper safety equipment and procedures - e.g. proper PPE - gloves, no sleeves rolled up, no tennis shoes, etc.
• If proper safety equipment and procedures are not portrayed, the photo will be disqualified.
• The photo must have been taken during the previous calendar year in an NPS area, or of NPS employee(s).  No group people photos (e.g. mugging for the camera photos) - but photos may be shots of multiple people working.