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Our State Magazine Spring Photo Contest (16+; photo) - 4/21/12
April 1, 2012 at
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Official Rules [upickem.net]
16+, US, 5 entries per person. Submit a photo in one of the listed categories that captures North Carolina in the Spring Season. Photos must have been taken since March 2010. Ends April 21, 2012 @ 12:01am ET
Grand Prize: (1 winner) $250 Visa gift card
Category Winner: (4 winners - 1 per category) Our State gift basket (ARV $60)
Readers Choice Category Winner: (1 winner) Our State gift basket (ARV $60)
Official Rules [upickem.net]
16+, US, 5 entries per person. Submit a photo in one of the listed categories that captures North Carolina in the Spring Season. Photos must have been taken since March 2010. Ends April 21, 2012 @ 12:01am ET
Grand Prize: (1 winner) $250 Visa gift card
Category Winner: (4 winners - 1 per category) Our State gift basket (ARV $60)
Readers Choice Category Winner: (1 winner) Our State gift basket (ARV $60)
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CATEGORIES
Spring in Bloom (close up shots of flowers or plants)
Spring Landscapes & Scenics (wide, broad shots capturing large areas)
Rural Life in the Spring (scenes of spring in rural areas, on farms, etc)
Towns & Cities in the Spring (shots of spring in urban areas)
Each photo must be submitted into a single category. Entrants will determine which category their image best fits into. Judges will select an overall contest grand prize winner and a first place winner from each category. From across all categories, judges will select up to 50 finalists to appear in the Readers' Choice Gallery for voting.
Images must have been taken since March 1, 2010 and within the state of North Carolina in order to be eligible.
Photographs must be in digital format. No print or film submissions will be accepted for entry into this contest. The photograph need not be taken with a digital camera; scans of negatives, transparencies or photographic prints are acceptable. All digital files must be submitted in jpg format only.
Photographs that have won other contests (online or print) or from which entrant has earned money are not eligible. Having received a designation of Grand, First, Second, or Third Place overall constitutes winning a contest.
Please do not overly manipulate or change by using photo editing software. Only minor burning, dodging, and/or color correction is acceptable, as is cropping. High dynamic range (HDR images) and stitched panoramas are NOT acceptable
If you choose to include people in your submission, you are responsible for obtaining any necessary releases from the individuals depicted, and must be able to provide copies of those releases to Our State magazine upon request.
Entrants must not submit images that involve the willful harassment of people or animals, damage to the environment by the photographer, the taking of risks, or that infringe on the rights of any other photographer, person, or animal.
Photo descriptions must accompany all submissions, and should included the subject of the image, the location where the image was taken, approximate date the image was taken.
JUDGING:
Judging will be conducted by a panel of professional photographers and Our State staff. All decisions of the judges will be final and binding.
All eligible photographs will be judged on originality, technical excellence, overall impact, and artistic merit.
Judges will select a set of up to 50 finalists, including a contest grand prize winner (from across all categories) and a first place photo from each category. Photos in the finalist pool will be eligible for voting for Reader's Choice favorite photo. Reader's Choice voting will occur between April 24 and May 1. A single photo will not win more than one accolade during the contest.
Winning images will appear online at ourstate.com, but will NOT be published in the print edition of Our State magazine.
The winning images will be announced by May 3, 2012.
READERS' CHOICE VOTING:
Judges will select a pool of up to 50 final images that will be presented for reader voting online at ourstate.com between April 24 at noon and May 1, 2012 at noon. Readers may cast one vote per day per registered user. Based on those votes, a Readers' Choice photo will be named. A single image will not win more than one accolade in the contest.
The winning image will appear online at ourstate.com, but will NOT be published in the print edition of Our State magazine.
Spring in Bloom (close up shots of flowers or plants)
Spring Landscapes & Scenics (wide, broad shots capturing large areas)
Rural Life in the Spring (scenes of spring in rural areas, on farms, etc)
Towns & Cities in the Spring (shots of spring in urban areas)
Each photo must be submitted into a single category. Entrants will determine which category their image best fits into. Judges will select an overall contest grand prize winner and a first place winner from each category. From across all categories, judges will select up to 50 finalists to appear in the Readers' Choice Gallery for voting.
Images must have been taken since March 1, 2010 and within the state of North Carolina in order to be eligible.
Photographs must be in digital format. No print or film submissions will be accepted for entry into this contest. The photograph need not be taken with a digital camera; scans of negatives, transparencies or photographic prints are acceptable. All digital files must be submitted in jpg format only.
Photographs that have won other contests (online or print) or from which entrant has earned money are not eligible. Having received a designation of Grand, First, Second, or Third Place overall constitutes winning a contest.
Please do not overly manipulate or change by using photo editing software. Only minor burning, dodging, and/or color correction is acceptable, as is cropping. High dynamic range (HDR images) and stitched panoramas are NOT acceptable
If you choose to include people in your submission, you are responsible for obtaining any necessary releases from the individuals depicted, and must be able to provide copies of those releases to Our State magazine upon request.
Entrants must not submit images that involve the willful harassment of people or animals, damage to the environment by the photographer, the taking of risks, or that infringe on the rights of any other photographer, person, or animal.
Photo descriptions must accompany all submissions, and should included the subject of the image, the location where the image was taken, approximate date the image was taken.
JUDGING:
Judging will be conducted by a panel of professional photographers and Our State staff. All decisions of the judges will be final and binding.
All eligible photographs will be judged on originality, technical excellence, overall impact, and artistic merit.
Judges will select a set of up to 50 finalists, including a contest grand prize winner (from across all categories) and a first place photo from each category. Photos in the finalist pool will be eligible for voting for Reader's Choice favorite photo. Reader's Choice voting will occur between April 24 and May 1. A single photo will not win more than one accolade during the contest.
Winning images will appear online at ourstate.com, but will NOT be published in the print edition of Our State magazine.
The winning images will be announced by May 3, 2012.
READERS' CHOICE VOTING:
Judges will select a pool of up to 50 final images that will be presented for reader voting online at ourstate.com between April 24 at noon and May 1, 2012 at noon. Readers may cast one vote per day per registered user. Based on those votes, a Readers' Choice photo will be named. A single image will not win more than one accolade in the contest.
The winning image will appear online at ourstate.com, but will NOT be published in the print edition of Our State magazine.
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