“It’s your own vision of the image,” Green said.<\/p>\n
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The Patronato San Xavier 2027 Calendar Photo Contest is open to professional and amateur photographers, and it can include both interior and exterior photos.<\/p>\n
Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star<\/p>\n
The contest is open to photographers 18 and older and the images must feature the mission or its surrounding desert landscape. AI-generated or altered images are not eligible.<\/p>\n
There is a $6 per submission entry fee to cover administrative costs and a limit of four submissions per person. All submissions must be digital, high-resolution in JPEG, TIFF, JPG, or PDF format. For the complete contest rules, visit patronatosanxavier.org\/photo-contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n Patronato San Xavier quietly opened the contest weeks ago while scaffolding still shrouded the mission’s facade as part of a restoration project launched in winter 2025.<\/p>\n The work, funded through a $749,000 grant from the National Park Service in fall 2024, involves stabilizing and restoring the building’s decorative facade<\/a> that dates back to the 18th century.<\/p>\n Green said work can only be done in the winter because the product they use “is very susceptible to heat.”<\/p>\n “Even at the end of March, we were somewhat shocked to discover those 100-degree days really impacting some of the product that we were attempting to use,” he said.<\/p>\n The facade restoration project is the largest in the mission’s history, financed by the largest single grant in the 46-year history of the nonprofit Patronato San Xavier, which oversees preservation and fundraising.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photos: San Xavier Mission in 1940 and 2015<\/a><\/p>\n