Send us your views of the Lake Erie region and enter for you chance to win a $500 gift certificate and other prizes. One grand prize winner will be selected as well as first place winners in each of the three categories: Winning photos will be featured in the March/April issue of Lake Erie Living.
What to Enter
Amateur photographers may submit up to three previously unpublished color or black-and-white images, taken in the last three years and captured somewhere within a 30-mile radius of Lake Erie (both the U.S. and the Canadian sides of the lake). The three contest categories are: nature and wildlife, architecture and the man-made environment, and people. Photos must be at least 300 dpi resolution.
How to Enter
Via Email: Send your submission to photos@glpublishing.com along with your name, phone number, address and a brief description of the photo, including where it was taken.
Via Mail: Entries should be unmounted prints made from the original negative, slide or digital file. Prints should be at least 5x7, and no larger than 8x12. Images will not be returned. Please include your name, phone number, address and a brief description of the photo, including where it was taken. Send photos to:
2010 Lake Erie Living Photo Contest
Lake Erie Living Magazine
1422 Euclid Ave., Ste. 730
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Deadline: Oct. 6, 2010
Prize Details
Nine finalists will be selected, three from each of the three categories. The entries of all winners will be published in the March/April issue of Lake Erie Living magazine. A selection of images from finalists may also appear in future issues, ancillary products, and promotional/marketing materials of Lake Erie Living and the Lake Erie Living Travel Guide.
The Grand-Prize winner will receive a $500 B&H gift card (www.bhphotovideo.com). First-place winners in each category will receive a $50 B&H gift card. Second and Third-place winners in each category will also be selected and awarded a subscription or renewal to Lake Erie Living magazine.
Official Rules
The Lake Erie Living Photography Contest is open to amateur photographers who are at least 18 years old. People who derive more than half their annual income from photography and employees of Great Lakes Publishing are not eligible to enter.
Photographers can submit up to three previously unpublished color or black-and-white images, taken in the last three years, and captured somewhere within a 30-mile radius of Lake Erie (both the U.S. and Canadian sides of the lake). The three contest categories are drawn from those subjects of special interest to Lake Erie Living magazine. Photos submitted via mail will not be returned.
Copyright of the image remains the property of the photographer. Entry into this contest constitutes the entrant’s irrevocable and perpetual consent to use, reproduce, print, publish, transmit, distribute, sell, adapt, enhance or display submissions for any purpose, in any media, by Great Lakes Publishing, for no other consideration beyond photographer credit.
All entrants must hold all rights to a photograph. For a photo in which a person is recognizable, entrants acknowledge they have sufficient written permission of anyone appearing in the image to grant Lake Erie Living the right to publish their photographic submission, and herby grant Lake Erie Living such right. Photographs previously published or pending publication, or photos that violate or infringe upon another person's copyright, are not eligible.
We do not accept digitally or otherwise enhanced or altered photos. Minor adjustments, including spotting, dodging, and burning, contrast and slight color adjustments or the digital equivalents, are acceptable. If our judges see that a photographer has obviously altered a photo, they reserve the right to disqualify it.