December 2025 Competition - Your Favorite Shot of 2025

[Tim Mayo]

Our December monthly competition is now open for entries.

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This Month's Theme
For this month our theme will be: "Your Favorite Shot of 2025". Hopefully this doesn't require any further explanation

Competition Dates
Entries start: The date that this post is published.
Entries end: December 21st
Voting starts: December 21st
Voting ends: December 28th

What Do I Get if I Win?
I'm afraid it's just the joy of taking part but I will be adding badges to winners profiles.

How to Enter + Rules

1. Post your entries in this thread by scrolling down to the reply box then hitting the 'upload images' button. Insert image as full image not thumbnail.
2. Canon R Series cameras only. Adapted lenses on R Series bodies are fine.
3. Camera metadata must be included in the images to verify.
4. Only one photo entry per member.
5. Keep the photos clean and family friendly.
6. Please don't use sky replacements or AI image generation.
7. You are free to change your image during the entry period.

How to Vote (when voting opens)

1. Use the vote button (up arrow) to the right of the post (below post on mobile) to vote up images that you like
2. You can vote on as many images as you like apart from your own

Themes for 2025
Our themes for the year have already been decided to give you a heads-up on what's coming next.

• Jan: Black & White
• Feb: Natural World and Wildlife
• Mar: Creative
• Apr: Action
• May: Mechanized Machines
• Jun: Land and City Scapes
• Jul: At Home
• August: Close Up / Macro
• Sep: Long Exposure
• Oct: Street
• Nov: After Dark
• Dec: Your Favorite Shot of 2025

Feedback
I'd really appreciate feedback about how the competition is running but please don't post it in this thread. Instead please post any feedback in our Feedback Forum.

Thank you for taking part and good luck!

 

[Tim Mayo]

Please note the rules folks:

1. Canon R Series cameras only. Adapted lenses on R Series bodies are fine.
2. Camera metadata must be embedded with images to verify.
3. Only one photo entry per member.
4. Keep the photos clean and family friendly.
5. Please don't use sky replacements or AI image generation.
6. You are free to change your image during the entry period.
7. Not essential but it would be nice if you added a little background information on your entry.

Thank you!

 

[Mikey]

Baby dedication.

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[PKM-UK]

We've had a whole bunch of truly memorable experiences this year, in fact it's been amazing - but 'photographically' this is our favourite creation of 2025.

(Shot by Karen and processed by Phil).


Man vs Mansion

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[MrSparks999]

Grey Heron

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[chipman]

My calendar winner for 2026. Will be hanging on a lot of walls next month,

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[ShipleyNW]

We had a pretty winter here in the valley. This is from last February.

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[THXGEEK]

Edit. Changed my mind.... I like this one better.

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[MikeZ]

Drift wood

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[AOC]

Always hard to pick a favorite image but I tend to lean towards in flight images of birds. Here is one of an Osprey moment

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