Do you have a winning image? Be sure to enter it in New Times’ 15th annual photo contest. Winners get published in our annual Winning Images issue. Entries are due by 5 p.m. on Oct. 18.
THE RULES:
cash prizes
Entry divisions are adult and youth. Adult: • Categories are: People, Sports, Manmade, Land/Seascape, Animals, Flora, Travel, and Open. • Prints may be between 5x7 and 11x14 and must be mounted on a thick 11x14 board without a mat. Images may be color or b/w. No slides are allowed. • Photos submitted in previous years are ineligible. • Each submission must be accompanied by a $5 check, cash, or money order made out to New Times. • New Times is not responsible for damage or loss of entry. • Submissions are due in the New Times office, 1010 Marsh St. in SLO, by 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18. A completed entry form must be attached to the back of each mounted entry. • Model release forms may be required. • All photos must be the original, creative work of the submitting photographer. • All photographs must be taken on the Central Coast (Guadalupe to Ragged Point)—except for submissions to Travel, an open category for photos taken anywhere else. • Photos can’t be returned, but may be picked up at the New Times office between Dec. 1 and Dec. 29. • Entry in the contest constitutes permission to use the photo in the paper, online, and for display. • All entrants are asked to submit a high-quality digital file of their image (jpeg format, at least 300 dpi) to photocontest@newtimesslo.com or on a cd attached to the back of their entry. Winners will be required to do so. Please include photographer’s name and entry name with each digital submission • Judges have the right to reassign categories for mislabeled or filed photos at their discretion. Youth: • This is an Open category. Photos can be of any subject of the entrant’s choosing, but must have been taken on the Central Coast. • Entrants must be 13 or younger as of Oct. 18, 2010. Winners’ legal guardians will be required to sign a release form. • All other rules from the adult categories apply. All entry money goes to prizes. The winning entries will be published in the Nov. 4 issue of New Times, in an online gallery and included in a photo exhibition evening on Nov. 3 at Steynberg Gallery. The winning images will be displayed for the month of November in Steynberg Gallery.
ENTRY FORM (Forms are also available online at newtimesslo.com) Photographer’s name _________________________________________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________ Telephone: Day ____________ Evening ______________ Email address ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Entry name _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Photo Category: People___ Sports___ Manmade___ Land/Seascape___ Animals___ Flora___ Travel___ Open ____ Photo Division: Adult ______ Youth ______ All entrants are asked to submit a high-quality digital file of their image (jpeg format, at least 300 dpi) to photocontest@newtimesslo.com or on a cd attached to the back of their entry. Winners will be required to do so. Include photographer’s name and entry name with each digital submission.