Photo Contest

National RTAP Photo Contest

NEWS AND EVENTS

2025 Photo Contest: Wrap It Up

Ketchikan Transit bus showing a driver pretending to fish for a bus wrap showing a fish

We're showing a winning entry from our 2023 Photo Contest, photographed by Marlen Davis of Ketchikan Transit.

Our National RTAP 2025 Photo Contest – Wrap It Up – is all about how you beautify your bus, including visually appealing bus wraps, graphics, decorations, holiday embellishments, and artistic creations. The photos will embrace the theme - "No more boring buses!"

Awards will be paid to the photographer: First Prize: $400, Second Prize: $200, Third Prize: $100. Winners also will receive plaques, and all entries will also receive certificates. Entries will be showcased on our social media and displayed at one or more upcoming conferences.

The deadline has passed and we will announce the winners in September 2025.

NEWS AND EVENTS

2024 Photo Contest: The Art of Transit

Our National RTAP 2024 Photo Contest – The Art of Transit – celebrates the creative side of transit. We asked transit agency staff and riders to draw, paint, sculpt, quilt, weave, make a collage, or create an artistic digital image that depicts rural or tribal transit and includes an original artistic image of a bus, bus stop, driver, and/or riders. This was still a photo contest; the final submissions were photos of the artwork - our winners are shown below.

Awards were paid to the artist: First Prize: $400, Second Prize: $200, Third Prize: $100. Winners also received plaques, and all entries also received certificates. Entries will be showcased on our social media and displayed at one or more upcoming conferences. Congratulations to the winners and all the talented artists who entered the contest!

Judging Criteria

Photo quality
Artistic design
Originality
Creative depiction of this year’s theme: The Art of Transit

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

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