The 2024 Photo Contest is complete, and the winning images have been selected! Stay tuned for our next Annual Photo Contest, coming in May 2025.

Did you know? At Sonlight, we feature real photos and stories from our customers on our website, in our catalog, and in our marketing materials. So grab your camera and show us your homeschool year!

From #sonlightboxday to #sonlightstack and everything in between—we want to see your #sonlightstories.

...but we still want to see your photos!

At Sonlight, we feature real photos and stories from our customers on our website, in our catalog, and in our marketing materials. So grab your camera and shows us your homeschool year! We LOVE hearing #sonlightstories and we invite you to share your favorite Sonlight moments with us all year long. Here's how:

• Share on our website: log into your Sonlight account and click the Photos/Testimonials link in the left sidebar. (Watch a short tutorial.)*
• Share on your favorite social media platform: use hashtags #sonlightstories, #sonlightstack, #sonlightboxday or #sonlightgrad. Be sure to tag us (@sonlightcurriculum and @sonlight)! Please note that only photos shared via the form on our website will be entered in our annual photo contest. *

*By submitting your photos, you are providing Sonlight with permission to share your photos in our printed materials and on our website and social media platforms.

We're looking for photos of all types. And don't forget to include your story—we want to hear why learning with Sonlight is so special for your family!

We are looking for photos of all types. Don't forget to include your story—what makes learning with Sonlight so special.

Method #1:

Post your photo(s) and testimonial on your favorite social media platform and we'll contact you if we’d like to use your photo. Be sure to include hashtags #sonlightstories, #sonlightstack, #sonlightboxday or #sonlightgrad. And be sure to tag us (@sonlightcurriculum and @sonlight).

Method #2:

Submit a photo and a story or testimonial about Sonlight on our website (here). The ultimate Sonlight prize, of course, comes when your family loves learning together. But an additional reward is in store for the family who can capture that experience and win the Annual Photo Contest!

The photos and captions you submit may appear in our catalog, on our website, or in other promotional material Sonlight may choose to create. Published photos will be accompanied by captions we write based on the information you provide us.

Submit as many photos as you like. If you submit multiple photos, you may repeat your comments if necessary, but don't leave those fields blank!

Here are a few tips to increase your chances of making it on a Sonlight catalog cover:

• The catalog cover is in portrait (vertical) mode, but sometimes we have cropped a landscape (horizontal) photo to make it fit. Submit all the good photos you have!
• Catalog cover photos are well focused, with a range of lights and darks. Photos of just a couple people work better than photos of large groups.
• There are a few topics that are always underrepresented: older students (say, 13 years or older); moms with their children; dads enjoying Sonlight with their children; parents using their Instructor's Guide; single parents who are teaching their children; photos that show international flavor; emotionally grabbing moments that happen in the midst of discovering something new; Science experiments; Language Arts work. If you have a photo of one of these—send it along!
• Specificity rules for captions:
• This is not specific: "Sonlight is great! We love it so much and it's perfect for us!"
• This is more specific: "With Sonlight, my reluctant reader fell in love with stories and picked up a book for the first time on his own."
• This is not specific: "This photo shows us as a museum with Civil War uniforms."
• This is more specific: "Sonlight makes learning come alive. When we visited a Civil War Museum, my kids knew the context and reasons for the war from studying History / Bible / Literature E. They remembered the biographies they read and connect them to what they saw in the museum."
• Feel free to describe what is happening in the picture, but also share the "big picture" of how Sonlight fits into your overall homeschool experience.