By Thu-Huong Ha

National Geographic recently commissioned Folds to curate an assignment for their online photo community, Your Shot, challenging shutterbugs of every skill level to capture compelling images of. Nat Geo Your Shot is still posting challenges for you to participate using hashtags. The winners get published in the Nat Geo's INSTAGRAM PROFILE. For example, the current challenge (as in April 10th, 2020) is #viewfromquarantine, since we are going through a global quarantine due to the virus Covid-19.

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August might be over, but don’t stop snapping vacation photos just yet: Until September 22, National Geographic Traveler is accepting submissions for the cover of its December 2015/January 2016 issue.

The 30-year-old magazine is one of the properties of the National Geographic Society (now partly owned by 21st Century Fox), and every year it dazzles with its travel photo contest. This is the first time any of National Geographic’s magazines will run a cover based on reader submissions.

Submit a photo from your favorite travel destination here. Vertically oriented photos and compositions that leave clean space in the top and bottom of the frame are best, according to the judges. See 10 of the top contenders so far, selected by National Geographic Travel editors, below.

According to a recent report, the latest Disney layoffs would impact National Geographic, considering that it was acquired by Disney earlier this year. And it seems to be true – NatGeo has issued the official announcement that it’s closing the Your Shot platform.

For those of you who may not know, Your Shot is a photo community which offered photographers assignments, advice from experts, and the opportunity to get their work featured on digital and print platforms. It also connected the photographers within the community.

I first noticed the news on Reddit, where one of the users shared that the platform seems to be closing. And indeed, when you visit the Your Shot page on National Geographic’s website, you’ll see the official notice. It reads that the Your Shot platform will be discontinued as of 31 October 2019. It won’t cease to exist overall, but it will be moved to Instagram:

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Variety’s report claims that Disney’s layoffs will make National Geographic “more of a TV-centric operation, focused on its U.S. and overseas cable networks.” And with the Your Shot platform moved to Instagram, users wonder how it will work from now on. How are the submissions going to be curated? And how is the community engagement going to function from now on? Is it just going to turn into followers and likes? I guess we still have to wait and see, and judging from users’ comments, the opinions are divided. Some hate the idea, while the others don’t see anything bad.

I personally haven’t been a member of Your Shot, so I can’t speak as a user. But objectively speaking, on Instagram, there’s always a chance to turn everything into likes, without too much engagement, which certainly isn’t a positive thing.

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Have you been a member of Your Shot? What do you think of NatGeo’s decision?

[via DPReview, Variety]

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