2026 Photo Contest Categories Announced

Calling all photographers! The Kerens Cotton Harvest Festival is pleased to announce the categories for the 2026 Photo Contest. Whether you enjoy capturing memorable destinations, Texas backroads, remarkable architecture or the personality of animals, there is a category for you.

Best of Show

One outstanding photograph will receive the contest’s top honor.

Young Adult Categories

• Architecture
• Travel
• Black & White
• Animals
• Backroads of Texas

Adult Categories

• Animals
• Architecture
• Backroads of Texas
• Black & White Animals
• Black & White Travel
• Travel

Start looking through your favorite photographs—or grab your camera and create something new! Additional contest details, including entry requirements and deadlines, will be announced soon.