🌊 Florence Area Chamber of Commerce 2025 Photo Contest

Welcome to the 2025 Florence Area Chamber of Commerce Photo Contest! 📸 We’re building our photo library to showcase the magic of Oregon’s Coastal Playground—and we want your best shots of people enjoying Florence!

Deadline to enter: Friday, November 15, 2025
Prize: $250 cash + your winning photo featured in the Chamber’s Visitor & Relocation Resource Guide, marketing pieces, FlorenceChamber.com, and social media.

A panel of Chamber members will select the winner, who will be notified within 30 days.


📍 What We’re Looking For

We’re especially excited to see photos that:

  • Show people having fun in Florence, Oregon—families on the beach, friends exploring Old Town, kids on the dunes, couples enjoying sunsets, and groups at local attractions.

  • Highlight food and dining in Florence Oregon—from fresh seafood and farmers market finds to our incredible restaurants, cafés, and food carts.

  • Capture the beauty of Florence Oregon beaches, sand dunes, rivers, trails, and iconic attractions like the Oregon Sea Lion Caves—all within 20 miles of Florence.

Special consideration will go to photos that celebrate diversity of age, culture, and community.


✅ Eligibility & Rules

  • Open to residents and visitors worldwide.

  • Amateurs and professionals encouraged to enter.

  • Entrants under 18 must have signed parental/guardian permission.

  • Portrait or landscape orientation accepted.

  • By entering, you confirm you own the rights to your photo, it’s free of third-party claims, and you grant the Chamber unlimited rights for marketing use. (You still retain your own rights for personal/future use.)

  • Photos must include photographer’s name, approximate date, and location.

  • Credit will be given whenever possible.

  • Ideal format: .jpg, color, vertical preferred (horizontal accepted), 1920x1080 pixels, 8MP+.

  • Files over 10MP? Email Contest@FlorenceChamber.com for Dropbox instructions.

  • Photos must not include watermarks. Releases are required from photographer and any recognizable individuals in the image.


📤 How to Enter

  1. Complete the entry form below.

  2. Upload your high-resolution photo(s).

  3. Submit signed photo release waivers (see form below).

Questions? Call 541-997-3128 or email info@FlorenceChamber.com.


✨ So whether it’s friends laughing over chowder, families riding ATVs on the Florence sand dunes, kids exploring tidepools on Florence Oregon beaches, or a mouthwatering plate at one of the best restaurants in Florence Oregon—we want to see YOUR Florence story!

Contact Information

This information is for internal use only.

Photo Information

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Photographic Consent & Release

Release for each person appearing in photo. Not for incidental people in background.

Provide name of each individual in photo and signature if over 18.

If under 18, provide individual’s and guardian’s printed name. Guardians acknowledge and agree that their typed name will serve as an electronic signature for this form.

 

Statement of Agreement

  • I do hereby consent and agree that the Florence Area Chamber Of Commerce, its employees, or agents, have the right to use my photograph, and my likeness and the likenesses of those appearing in it, in any and all media.

 

  • I further consent that my first and last name may be mentioned in descriptive text or commentary and/or for a photo credit.

 

  • I represent that I am at least 18 years of age, have read and understand the foregoing statement, agree to the rules as outlined on FlorenceChamber.com/contest, and am competent to execute this agreement.

 

 

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