2025 Photo Contest Results Announced

Thank you to all who entered! Click here to read the full press release announcing the winners.

Grand Prize – Into the Depths, Devil’s Sinkhole by Geary Schindel

The Texas Hill Country is a beautiful region filled with diverse wildlife, clear springs, sprawling rural landscapes, historic towns, and some of the starriest night skies in the country. With a rapidly growing population and increasing development coming into the region, many of these special qualities are at risk of being lost. Each year the Hill Country Alliance (HCA) holds a photo contest encouraging photographers to capture features of the Texas Hill Country they would like to protect forever.

With more than 500 entries in the 2025 Photo Contest, this year’s winning photos show the diversity of life and natural beauty that is abundant within our region – brilliantly colored songbirds, flowing rivers, hidden caverns hosting entire ecosystems beneath our feet, and clear views of a million stars above. The final four winning photographs were selected by a panel of judges and are featured in HCA’s popular 2026 Texas Hill Country Calendar, available now on the HCA website.

The Hill Country Alliance is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise public awareness and build community support around the need to preserve the natural resources and heritage of the Central Texas Hill Country. Visit us at www.hillcountryalliance.org.

Learn about past photo contests:
2024 Hill Country Photo Contest
2023 Hill Country Photo Contest 

Contact:
Leah Cuddeback, Outreach and Communications – Hill Country Alliance | leah@hillcountryalliance.org