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Deadline: 1st of each month

Read More: Fayetteville In Bloom (FIB) Photo Contest

Summaery:

The FIB Monthly Photo Contest is a continuing effort to diversify individual participation in Fayetteville in Bloom / America in Bloom. Photograph submissions may be print or digital (digital submissions must be high resolution, print quality 300 dpi or higher). Submission deadline is the first day of each month. The photograph content must be from Fayetteville and should apply to one of the following categories: Floral Displays: hanging baskets, container plantings, flowers in landscaped areas, Heritage Preservation: recognizing the value of history including heirloom species, Environmental Awareness: recycling, reducing pollutants and pesticides, low impact, Landscaped Areas: native species planting, Community Involvement: education, churches, other community groups, Tidiness Efforts: Curb the Clutter program, keep areas mowed or otherwise maintained, Urban Forestry: tree plantings in residential, public and commercial areas, and Turf and Groundcover Areas: increasing use of groundcovers in right-of-ways. Monthly winners will be announced in the second week of each month and notified by mail and/or email. Winning entries will be used for Fayetteville in Bloom Fundraising Note Cards, Upcoming Calendar and Publicity Posters to be displayed at various locations.

Deadline: 20th day of each month

Read More: 2009 Florida State Park Photo Contest

Summary:

Each photographer must register and receive a Photographer ID number to participate in the 2009 Florida State Park Photo Contest. When you have received your Photographer ID number, you may begin submitting photographs to the contest. If you were registered for the 2008 Photo Contest, you will not need to register again. Please use your current Photographer ID number. There are two ways to submit photographs. Please do not send prints. Contestants may email their digital photos (up to 5 MB) to Photo.Contest@dep.state.fl.us. Completed Photograph Entry forms, Photographer Release forms and Model Release forms may be scanned and emailed to the same email address. Forms may also be faxed to (850) 412-0444. Please do not send inquiries to this email address or fax number. Contestants may submit photographs digitally by mail on a CD or DVD. Please do not send prints. Contestants must be 13 years old or older. If the contestant is under 18, a parent or legal guardian must complete and sign the Photograph Entry Form. Minor digital enhancements for cropping, red-eye removal, filters and corrective functions are permitted, but images that have been judged to be altered in any significant manner will be disqualified. Contestants are not permitted to place borders, frames or backgrounds around their images or to place watermarks, dates, signatures or copyright images onto photos. Contestants may register up to 10 photographs each month. Florida Department of Environmental Protection employees are not eligible to participate in the 2009 Photo Contest. Digital photographs received on CD or DVD must be a minimum resolution of 1024×768 (or higher) pixels. Formats that are accepted are .jpg, .gif., .bmp, .eps, .psd and .tif. Photographs must be color. Submitted photographs must be taken within a Florida State Park or upon its waters. Photographs may be either in vertical or horizontal format; however, horizontal format is preferred. The eight (8) categories of the 2009 Photo Contest are: Faces and activities / visitors and staff, Macro (close-up), Plant Life, Wildlife, Historical, Camping, Landscape, and Recreation. Judges base their decisions on the following qualities: focus, lighting composition, impact, creativity and storytelling.

Deadline: 1st of each

Sponsor: LIMN portrait studio

Read More: Photo contest

Summary:

Photos will be voted on by visitors to JupiterDaily.com. Voting is cast by IP address logging. Photos will multiple votes by the same IP address/range may be disqualified if your votes are deemed to be abusing/manipulating of the system in order to win. Photos must be entered into our contest using the Submit a Photo link on our website and must be in gif, jpg or png format. Photos will be resized automatically in order to ensure timely downloads for all our website visitors. Photo may be color or black/white. Entering your photo means you grant JupiterDaily.com permission to publish the photo and your name on the web site and any additional publications announcing winners. Winner’s photos become the property of JupiterDaily.com Contest. Employees of JupiterDaily.com and their families are not eligible to participate. Professional photos may be submitted if the copyright of said photo is owned by the submitter. We may require you to send a letter relinquishing those copyrights.

Deadline: Monthly

Read More: South Florida Underwater Photography Society

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All images will be judged on an equal basis, whether they originally came from slide film, print film or a digital camera. All images must be submitted prior to the meeting in a digital format (instructions for submitting are found below). Film photographers will need to have their slides or prints scanned. Photos must be taken underwater by the entrant. No aquarium or pool shots. Photographers may submit images originally taken with any medium. All images must be submitted digitally. Images derived from original film or digital files will be judged on an equal basis. Each month the contest is divided into two categories – Masters and Challengers, each with different subjects to promote participation by all SFUPS members of all skill levels. A maximum of 2 images per person may be submitted per meeting. If you have been a “Photographer of the Year”, in either the film or digital category, then you are considered a Master and are only allowed to compete in the Masters category each month. Everyone else is considered a Challenger and may compete in either category (still with a maximum of two images per person). Images must adhere to the monthly subject matter. Some subjects are more open to interpretation, while others are very specific. Realizing that some computer adjustments are necessary for digital files, we ask that only minor adjustments be made in the computer. Only minor cropping, color adjustments, backscatter removal and sharpening are allowed. No extreme computer manipulation, removing items or adding items to the image. Size should be no greater than 1024 pixels on the long side and the file size should be less than 1.4 megabytes. Images should be submitted in JPEG format.

Deadline: 20th of each Month

Sponsor: Everyday Babies

Read More: Free Baby Photo Contest at Everyday Babies

Summary:

Thank you for visiting us here at the Everyday Babies free baby photo contest. It is our honor and brings us pure joy to host our baby photo contest month after month. We love to see the hundreds of baby pictures that grace our photo gallery each and every month. All photos entered in our contest must be entered by a parent or legal guardian. EverydayBabies.com will not be responsible for “stolen” photos or photos entered illegally. Only one photo per baby per month will be accepted into the free contest. Duplicate entries will be deleted without notice. Enhanced photos will not be accepted. The only exception is a photo turned to black & white or sepia. No black & white with color added. No nudity. Baby must at least be wearing a diaper. No make-up on babies in the photo. No exceptions. Baby must currently be between the ages of 0 and 4. By sending us your baby’s photo you are granting us permission to post your picture on our website at EverydayBabies.com, our blog and our website EveryKidPhoto.com.

Deadline: Monthly Contest 20th

Sponsor: Pictocolor, Red River Paper, Auto FX Software, Extensis Software, Power Retouche.

Read More: National Photo Awards

Summaery:

Our online photo contests are open to photographers age 18 or older. Beginners, amateurs, aspiring and professional photographers are all welcome to enter. The photo contests are open to people in all countries except where contests are prohibited. Enter one of the fastes growing photo contests available. The Monthly Photo Contest deadline is the 20th of each month (deadline will be the 21st or 22nd if the 20th is on a weekend). The Monthly Photo Contest winners are posted the first week of the following month. Due to the popularity of our Monthly Photography Contests, we have added a $250.00 cash prize to be awarded to the overall winner each month. We have seven categories that include Animals, Black and White, Creative, Artistic or Digitally Enhanced, Macro, Abstract or Still Life, Nature, Landscape or Seascape, Open or Miscellaneous, and People. You may enter your digital file photographs in JPEG format. You may enter as often and as many photos as you like, as long as you follow the rules and include the online contest entry fees.

Deadline: December 31

Sponsor: Lowepro

Read More: CSPF’s 2008 Photo Contest

Summary:

CSPF and MyParkPhotos.com reserve the right to crop photographs for display purposes, if necessary, and for other needs as required. Members must register each state park photograph into one relevant CSPF category: State Park Landscapes, Recreation, Wildlife, Historic Architecture, Archeology, Events/Programs, Flowers, Plant life, Seasonal, Sunset/Sunrise, Waterscape, Close-Up, and Black & White. All Photographs must be registered at a minimum resolution of 800×600 pixels, a maximum file size of 4MB, and in .JPG (RGB) format. Photos are displayed online at approximately 700×525 pixels. Additional Types of photography allowed and encouraged: Infrared (IR), Underwater, Black & White, Sepia, and High Dynamic Range (HDR). Photographs should show a scene as natural as possible working in the respective medium. Please do not place borders, frames, or dates on your images. Photos with these elements will be removed from the various contests and property galleries and displayed only in the member’s personal gallery. Signatures, watermarks with signature, and copyright notices are allowed and may be placed on the photograph by the owner. Due to judging and display purposes, please place your copyright or watermark information on the photograph as faint or unobtrusively as you deem practical with a balance between the understandable need to protect your images and the community’s interest in promoting the properties.Judges base their decisions on the following qualities for the monthly and yearly photo contests: Focus, Composition, Lighting, Technical Superiority, Impact, Creativity, and Storytelling. Registered photographs must be taken at a California State Park. This includes: State Beach, State Historical Monument, State Historic Park, State Park, State Reserve, State Recreation Area, State Seashore, or State Vehicular Recreation Area.

Deadline: December 31

Read More: The Nature’s Best Backyards Photo Contest

Summary:

Enter images of your backyard, whether it is a formally landscaped garden, a National Wildlife Federation certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat™, or simply a place kids of all ages enjoy. More than $3,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded and the winning images will be published in the Spring edition of Nature’s Best Photography magazine and may also be selected to appear in Nature’s Best Photography exhibits. Contest entries will be judged on technical quality, composition, originality, and artistic merit.

Deadline: December 31

Sponsor: AgInsights Committee, Colorado Department of Agriculture, Kodak and Northeastern Junior College

Read More: 2007 Photo Contest Winners

Summary:

All entries must relate to Colorado agriculture in some way. Entries representing all types of agricultural enterprises, scenes and people are encouraged. Prizes will be awarded in four subject areas: people, livestock, crops and agritourism. All images must have been photographed in Colorado during the 2009 calendar year. Contest sponsors and their employees are not eligible to enter the contest. Up to three photographs may be submitted per entrant. Prints must be 5×7 inches or 8×10 inches. Please no slides or e-mail entries. If you are submitting a hard copy of a digital photo, you must be able to submit the photo on CD or disk if requested. Do not send the disk with the entry. Please identify each image you submit by attaching a completed entry form to the back. Any person(s) or their guardian(s) appearing in the photograph must sign the entry form as a release. The contest will be judged by professionals in the fields of photography, journalism, advertising and marketing, as well as agriculture. Photos will be judged on theme, creativity and technical quality. Decision of the judges is final.