Wildlife Photo Contest Disqualified Winner Over Composite Dispute

Another wildlife comp, another disqualification, another argument about where the line actually sits. The NWF stripped its Garden for Wildlife winner after the internet went looking, but here's the part worth paying attention to: the organiser and the photography community disagree on which rule was broken. That gap between 'composite' and 'generated image' isn't semantic. It's the exact fault line every competition judge is now scrambling to define, and the exact ambiguity that will get legitimate work flagged alongside the bad stuff. Before you enter anything this year, read the manipulation rules twice. Not the spirit of them. The actual words.