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Maui Photo Contests

"Bring Your Creativity to Life!"

2025 Contest: 

 

Entries NOW OPEN

Time to submit your BEST MAUI PHOTOS!!!!  FUN!  EASY!  Revisit your best Maui memories!

Details:  Send me your favorite Maui Scene by May 1, 2025.

 

Easy to do!

 

Select "Reply" to my newsletter and attach a photo.

 

Or click the button below. I'll pick my top images, and in MAY I'll send out a "cast your vote" newsletter for YOU to vote for your top pick. [Hint: Invite your friends to subscribe to my newsletter so they can vote and increase your odds to win!]  Click Here to Subscribe

It does not need to be a current photo but you or the person who took it has to give me permission to use it in future paintings. When you submit a photo this will be assumed. Look back on all of your amazing trips here to Maui and dream .  Pick one or two of your absolute favorites and send them on!

Then what?

In JUNE I'll announce the winner and start painting it.  The person who submitted the photo will receive a complimentary giclee print on watercolor paper,- with bragging rights, and have first dibs on purchasing the original painting- HALF-OFF Price. If the winner does not choose to buy, as of June15, it's open to all comers, regular price.

This is a great way to get a truly special, original oil painting for yourself!  And in the future I may paint your photo just for the fun of it- so if you check back to my gallery from time to time you may see it! 

Submit your photo today!

2024 Winner                                                                                    2023 Winner
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 2023 "Montage Sunset" original is available. Contact me or click image.

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 2024 "Hana Sunrise - Black Sand Beach" prints available. Contact me or click image.

2022 Contest Winner
Classic Maui sunset from in front of the Wailea Beach Resort
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Painting: "Classic Maui Sunset" (only prints available)
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June 2021 Winner
This amazing sunset shot at the luau on the beach in Lahaina and submitted it. The scene is no more, the Luau location and the original painting burned in the Lahaina fries.

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June 2020 Winner 
This clever photographer 
got all her friends and family to sign up and vote for her photo!  It worked!  She won.

Contest Photo 
"Grandma's Point" 

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The family purchased the final painting as a gift for their parents, since it was the spot their Grandma loved.  She rested here during her walks on the lovely beach.  Prints are available.

MAY 2019 Winner...

Selected by my followers.

Winning photo submitted and the photographers took the painting home!

Reference Photo-  Infinity Pool at the Andaz- Maui

Painting In Progress...

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Time-lapse video of my sketch with the painting in progress to work on the rhythm, layout and composition of what will be the final painting.  You can see how I add and subtract imagery until I'm satisfied with the final result.  Then... on to more painting!
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DSA

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Diane Snoey Appler, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii  1-408-314-1627  dianeappler@gmail.com

All artwork featured on this site remains the property of the artist(s)

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