July 2026 · Sanborn County Park

Landscape & Nature

A landscape and nature safari shaped by story, surreal details, and the visual pull of leading lines.

Overall winners

Tyler Bruner + Josephina Shen

Challenge gallery

Make a photograph that suggests something happened before the frame—or is about to happen next.

Find a real scene that feels dreamlike, uncanny, or just slightly outside ordinary experience.

Use a line, edge, path, or repeated shape to guide the viewer through the frame.

Field guide

Look for relationships, traces, gestures, and small details that give the landscape a beginning, middle, or unanswered ending.

Use scale, reflection, isolation, unexpected color, or an unusual point of view to make the familiar feel strange.

Move your feet until the line leads somewhere meaningful. Pay attention to where it begins, where it ends, and what it reveals along the way.