Photo Contest Categories
- Los Gatos/Saratoga in Motion - Hiking, walking, running, biking, and sports participation, etc.
- Beautiful Landscape - Native landscape and open space, rustic scenes, trails, sunrises, and sunsets
- Celebrating Community Spirit - Landmarks, recreation classes and city events, helping others, community cleanup, volunteers in action, school participation, etc.
- Throwback – Recreation classes that include youth, adult, 55 plus, aquatics, and/or vasona boating. (Throwback photos should be 20 years and older and include approximate year as available)
Submission Rules
Entries must comply with ALL criteria to meet eligibility requirements.
- Limit one submission per category, per person.
- Contest is FREE and open to Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga and the Los Gatos mountain communities of all ages and photographers of all skill levels.
- Participants under the age of 18 must have permission from a parent/legal guardian.
- Participant will be disqualified from entire contest if more than one picture is submitted per category.
- Photo must be of an area within Town Los Gatos and City of Saratoga limits.
- LGS Recreation reserves the right to reassign entry to alternate category or reject entries based on criteria.
- LGS Recreation reserves the right to reject any entry deemed not suitable for consideration due to objectionable content such as the use of profanity, nudity, drug, alcohol, or tobacco use, or cruelty to persons or animals.
- If there are people who are easily recognizable in submission, participant entering contest must have permission to submit their image for use by LGS Recreation
- LGS Recreation have all rights to use the image(s) submitted, and may use the likeness and/or photograph, as applicable, in any form or medium as it may select.
Contest Entry Form
- Files must be less than 10MB and at least 300 DPI. Allowed file types are jpg or jpeg.
- Entries Due by October 24, 2026. (Entries received before July 1, 2026 may be considered for a seasonal brochure cover!)