Calling All Photographers: Submit Your Photo for the “Photo of the Month”
Have a stunning shot of California’s coast or ocean? We want to showcase your work in the Photo of the Month feature of our monthly newsletter! Whether it’s a serene shoreline, vibrant marine life, or a captivating coastal sunset, share the beauty of our state’s coast and ocean through your lens!
To participate:
- Submit your own photo taken in California.
- Minimum size: width 1000 px, 72 dpi
- Horizontal preferred
- Include the location where the photo was taken.
- Grant OPC permission to share your image across all web platforms and print material (with full credit to you!).
- Include the sentence “I grant Ocean Protection Council permission to share my photo across all web platforms and print materials with the attribution: [INSERT YOUR NAME/REQUESTED ATTRIBUTION HERE]”
Submit by email to copcpublic@resources.ca.gov
We can’t wait to see California’s marine treasures through your eyes!
Photo: Stacy Hayden / Closeup of starfish in Mendocino
Previous Photos of the Month
February 2025
Nick Paz / Opalescent nudibranch in a tidepool at Carmet Beach near Bodega Bay
January 2025
Keira Silver / Southern Sea Otter eating purple urchin in Monterey Bay
December 2024
Christine Esler / Sunset at Morro Bay
November 2024
Claire Fackler, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries / Claire’s teenage daughter swimming through a healthy kelp forest at Anacapa Island Landing Cove in NOAA’s Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park.
October 2024
Laurel Meleski / Duncan’s Landing Overlook, HWY 1 (near Bodega Bay).
September 2024
Wayne Kotow / Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) canopy off San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands.