OCUPS MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST 2021 CONTEST THEMES
| Month | Subject | |
| January |
The Mighty Pandemic - Use your imagination and submit images depicting pandemic related terms such as "social distance:" marine animals distancing from one another; "shelter in place," fish finding shelter; "safer at home," "community spread," "flattening the curve," etc.
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| February | Tasteful Nudes (Nudibranchs, including Heterobranchs) - Images that contain one or more nudibranchs | |
| March | Black Background, Single Subject - A single subject where the negative space is all black. The subject should be isolated against a black background. | |
| April | Ambient/Natural Light - An image that uses only available (ambient) light to illuminate the image | |
| May | (Mother’s Day) Yo Mama - Animals showing parenting behavior such as spawning, brooding, laying eggs, tending eggs or young. | |
| June | Octopus - Any image where an octopus is the main subject | |
| July | The Color Blue - An image where the subject is predominantly blue. This does not include images that are all blue or have a blue background because of the color of the water. | |
| August | Close Focus Wide Angle - An image where a small (smaller than a basketball) subject is prominent but wide angle elements are in the image too, such as a reef in the distance, the sun, a diver, etc. | |
| September | Translucent/Transparent - An image that you can see through even if it is aided by a torch (i.e. jellies, eggs, mermaids purse, kelp, glass shrimp, plankton or larvae, etc.) | |
| October | Scary - Any subject you interpret as frightening or ghoulish | |
| November | Feeding/Eating - A subject that is obviously in the middle of a meal | |
| December | Awards banquet |