Nature & Wildlife
Images in this category include:
- Plants
- Flowers
- Trees
- Close-ups of natural scenes and textures
- Macro
- Still life
- Wildlife in a natural habitat
Composites (stitching, focus stacking, multi-exposures shot at the same time as a sequence) are permitted as are general edits for noise reduction, sharpening, colour adjustment, cropping, lens corrections, dust removal, global and local exposure adjustments.
Images taken at workshops and on photo tours/expeditions are permitted.
Domesticated animals/captive animals are not permitted.
AI-generated elements/backgrounds/skies or third-party backgrounds/skies are not permitted.
It is NOT allowed to add, delete, move elements by cloning, healing, patching, content-aware fill, liquify, AI generative fill, or similar tools. The original source file(s) must be available if requested.