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Enter School Bus Fleet’s 2025 Photo of the Year Contest

Can you make the cut with your stunning shots of the school bus? It’s time to grab your cameras and start snapping. SBF’s Photo of the Year contest is open for entries. Submit your interesting images by June 27.

June 2, 2025
Enter School Bus Fleet’s 2025 Photo of the Year Contest

Last year's winning photo is (sort of) shown here. 

Photo: Terry Evans/SBF Canva

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Think your stunning school bus photo has what it takes to be called the best this year? Show us!

We want to see your picture of the yellow bus for our annual photo contest. The competition is open to all shots related to school transportation.

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We’d love to see some close-ups of bus details, aerial images, friendly animal visitors, stunning school buses set against fascinating geographical landscapes, interesting angles, unique perspectives, and anything else that shows the big yellow bus in all its beautiful glory.

To get inspired, check out the winning entries from 2024 here and 2023 here!

What Winners Receive

All winners and honorable mentions will appear in a photo gallery on our website later this year and in our August print magazine. 

Three winners each will receive a $50 Visa e-gift card. Each winner, plus a few honorable mentions, also get a certificate and will be celebrated at our SBFX event in September.

Contest Guidelines

  • Entries must be digital images that are high resolution (about 1920x1280 pixels and 3 MB or larger, ideally), sent as a jpg or png.

  • Max of three entries per person, please.

  • All entries become property of School Bus Fleet, with permission implied to be included on our website and magazine. 

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How to Enter

Submit your photo entry/entries ONLINE HERE!

Entries must be received by Friday, June 27. Winners will be notified in July.

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