The Wild Side Photography Competition

Wild Side Photography competition

The Wild Side Photography Competition

Calendar icon 26 Sep 2025 - 2 Feb 2026
Ticket icon Free Entry

Get behind the lens and unearth the wild side of our botanic gardens!

Visit any of our three botanic gardens - Adelaide, Mount Lofty or Wittunga, and start snapping the breathtaking biodiversity of plants, fungi and animals that thrive there.  

Selected photographs will be showcased on social media throughout the competition. A winner from each category will be chosen by a panel of expert judges at the end of the competition.

Bees and lavender, Adelaide Botanic Garden, 2024. Photographer Aiden Marshall, Brighton Secondary School 

Categories 

Aged 12 and Under

Plants, Fungi and Animals of the Botanic Gardens

Photographs that highlight the wonderful diversity of living things that call the Botanic Gardens home. 

 

Aged 13 – 18

It’s all about perspective

Photographs that capture a unique detail, an interesting interaction between plants and animals,  or something that might usually go unnoticed, in any of our three botanic gardens.

 

Open 

Nature’s Gallery

Photographs that highlight the beauty of nature, from delicate patterns to vivid colours to the complex relationships between plant, fungi and animals over our garden sites. 

 

To enter the competition as either an individual or a school please complete your entry below.

The Wild Side Photography Competition entry