Quarterly Themes: Each quarter we show mastery of a particular theme

Spring, 2026 will be Tension:

Tension explores the friction that gives landscapes their presence—it’s the opposition between opposing forces: light and shadow, movement and stillness, permanence and change.

Each photograph for this them should capture a moment where it feels like one can go either way, balance is uncertain. A storm gathering over still water. A jagged ridge cutting into an otherwise perfect blue sky. These are not scenes of clarity, but of suspension—where something is about to shift.

Photographs this quarter will lean into contrast and composition to reveal that beauty often exists not in harmony, but in the precipice before it.

Summer, 2026 will be Constructed Perception:

These images will challenge the assumption that a photograph is an impartial account. A mountain appears monumental or distant depending on compression. A reflection can blur what is real versus mirrored. Scale becomes ambiguous, and orientation can seem unsure.

This theme examines how photography informs perception and reality—how framing, scale, and intent alter what we believe to be in front of us.

Rather than simply recording landscapes, this collection interrogates them—demonstrating how perception itself is edited, and ultimately constructed.

Please submit works that illuminate each theme.