How will you be spending your summer? Share your photos for chances to win a prize

Summer break is just around the corner, bringing with it opportunities to explore, recharge and reconnect with loved ones. Whether you are “staycationing” close to home or embarking on a journey across the world, we invite you to share your favorite summer photographs by entering our UF at Play Summer Photo Contest for a chance to win one of several UF giveaways. At the end of each month, our judges will review all submissions and pick two winners.

Read on to learn about contest rules, prizes and our judges.

Prizes

A big thank you to our friends across campus who have generously donated contest prizes.

Submission rules and guidelines

The contest is open to University of Florida faculty and non-student employees only. Please only submit photos that you have personally taken. Entries will be accepted from Monday, May 1, through Friday, Aug. 18, at 5 p.m. Employees may submit four photos per entry, per month, but no more than one giveaway will be awarded per employee. All entries must be submitted using the submission form below.

The entrant accepts all responsibility for the content provided and has the rights to share the photo(s). If a person or people are pictured in the photo, the entrant is the person pictured and/or has the permission of those pictured to share this photo publicly. By submitting, the entrant gives permission for the photo to be shared on the UF at Work website as well as on UF at Work’s social media accounts at UF at Work’s sole discretion. 

Judging criteria

The judges will look at technical quality, composition, impact — is the image eye-catching — and whether your photo meets the theme of “summer vacation.” Your image may capture either an activity you are doing or a place you visited during the summer.

Below are examples of previous submissions that meet our judging criteria. Click on each image to view the full submission.

Alisson Clark
UF Research
Jenn Moyer Banfield
UF Business Services
Johannes Traster
UF Human Resources
Sandy J. Pulcini
UF Health
Priya Patil
UF Foundation
Honey Langford
UF College of the Arts
Kim Kruse
UF Foundation
Kaitlin Robb Price
UF/IFAS Extension

All photo(s) must be submitted using the below form:

Social media:

We welcome and encourage you to share your photos with us through social media! Be sure to include the hashtag #UFAtPlay and tag us on Twitter @UFatWork and Instagram @UF_AtWork.

Please note, images shared only through social media will not be considered entries to the contest.
Starting this year, all entries must be submitted via the submission form.

Judges

Bernard Brzezinski — Bernard is a photographer and videographer specializing in visual storytelling whose work is featured in print and digital marketing campaigns locally and internationally. He is currently a multimedia specialist for UF Distance Learning.

John Freeman — John has headed the photojournalism program at the University of Florida since joining the faculty in 1991. His research interest focuses on successful photojournalists and has been published in Visual Communications Quarterly and News Photographer magazine. 

Brianne (Bri) Lehan — Bri is a documentary and commercial photographer and videographer in Gainesville. She previously worked as the lead photographer/videographer in the UF Strategic Communications and Marketing department where her work was featured across the UF flagship social media accounts and other outlets.

Catherine (Cat) Wofford — Cat covers a variety of subjects as a photographer at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. In this role, she services extension offices, research centers and biological stations throughout the state of Florida and UF’s main campus College of Agricultural Life Sciences.

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