2025 OCEANS Month
Photo Contest

How to Enter

After the success of our last Oceans Month Photo, the contest is back for 2025 to highlight and celebrate, once again, the beauty of the Belize Barrier Reef System. We have 4 separate categories, covering different aspects of Belize’s reef. Find the category below that best fits to enter your photos for a chance to win a free stay at Hamanasi, among other prizes. Hamanasi will select the winners of each category and a Grand Prize winner from all entrants. All photos must be taken within Belize. Entries are open June 1 to July 31, 2025.

Prizes

The Grand Prize winner will receive a 3-night stay at Hamanasi for up to two people in a run of house room, including breakfast and one scheduled reef adventure (a Barrier Reef dive or snorkel trip). Each category winner will receive a Hamanasi gift pack. The winning photos will be printed and displayed in a gallery at Hamanasi.

2025 OCEANS Month Photo Contest Entry Form

Name(Required)

First Last

Email(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

I would like to submit image(s) in the following categories(Required)

Check all that apply

Spectacular Seascape

Marine Life Behavior

Blackwater

Compact Encounters

Spectacular Seascape

A broad composition coral reef, sunrise over the water, island with sea, etc. May include a diver or snorkeler.

Marine Life Behavior

Photos showing the species doing something other than just swimming, e.g., eating, spawning, mating, etc. May include a diver or snorkeler.

Blackwater

Underwater images taken at night, may include a diver or snorkeler.

Compact Encounters

Those up close, detailed shots capturing a fish portrait, a nudibranch, a seahorse, turtle’s shell, etc.

Name and/or social media account to credit when using your images?

We try to tag and credit guests whenever possible when posting guest photos. How would you like us to credit these photos?

Contest Rules and Image Release (Scroll to bottom to agree to all terms.)(Required)

By submitting this form I assert that I am the photographer and I hold the rights to all images submitted, and I agree to the full contest rules including the terms of image release below:

Entrant retains their rights to submitted photographs; however, by entering the contest, entrant grants Hamanasi (and those authorized by Hamanasi) a royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publicly display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or later developed, for any purpose, including, but not limited to, advertising and promotion of the hotel and its website, exhibition, and commercial products, including but not limited to Hamanasi publications. Any photograph reproduced will include a photographer credit as feasible. Hamanasi will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.

I agree to the contest rules and image release terms

Model Release(Required)

For all photos in which a person is recognizable, I attest that the individual(s) has/have granted me full consent and permission to use their likeness in the photo. I acknowledge I may be required to provide a model release from the subject or, in the case of a minor, the subject’s parent or guardian, to Hamanasi upon request. A sample model release is available here.

All people in my photos have given consent

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2025 OCEANS MonthPhoto Contest

How to Enter

Categories

Spectacular Seascape

Marine Life Behavior

Blackwater

Compact Encounters

Prizes

2025 OCEANS Month Photo Contest Entry Form

2025 OCEANS Month
Photo Contest