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Here
are the winners for the 2009 Photography
Contest.
The deadline for our 4th Annual
Photography Contest will be July 1,
2010.
Look for details later.
CLICK HERE
Delaware Beach Life magazine
invites you to enter its third
annual Photo Contest for amateur
photographers. Photos must
capture life in coastal
Delaware. Categories are:
• People
• Nature
• Action
Judges will evaluate entries
based on creativity, originality
and technical proficiency.
Winners will be announced in the
October 2009 issue of Delaware
Beach Life. The top three
photographs in each category
will be featured in that issue.
For more information, e-mail
photocontest@delawarebeachlife.com.
HOW TO ENTER:
Photographers may submit up to
three entries per category. Only
photographic prints may be
submitted. SEE MORE INFORMATION
IN THE TECHNICAL DETAILS SECTION
BELOW.
All submissions must be mailed
to Delaware Beach Life, ATTN:
Photo Contest, P.O. Box 417
Rehoboth Beach DE 19971.
A completed entry form must
accompany EACH entry. Entry
forms are available online by
clicking here.
Entries must be postmarked by
July 1, 2009.
RULES:
There is no entry fee or any
other cost to enter.
Entries will not be returned.
Photos must have a coastal
theme. Images may be color,
black-and-white or digitally
altered, but will not be judged
separately.
Entrants must be amateur
photographers, 16 years of age
or older. Those who make less
than 50 percent of their income
from photography are considered
amateurs.
Professional photographers
(those who earn 50 percent or
more of their income from
photography) are not eligible to
participate — nor are Delaware
Beach Life contributors or
contractors, or their family
members.
Entrant must be the photographer
who shot the submitted
photographs. Entrants must have
the consent of all recognizable
people in the submitted images;
winners will be required to
provide signed model releases
for all recognizable people in
the published photographs.
Previously published photographs
are not eligible.
Delaware Beach Life magazine is
not responsible for any
submitted materials. Delaware
Beach Life magazine reserves the
right to disqualify photographs
deemed unsuitable.
Entrants agree that Delaware
Beach Life may use all
submissions for contest-related
publishing or marketing
purposes, but entrants retain
all other rights to the use of
their images. Photographers will
be credited appropriately.
Entries that do not comply with
contest rules will be
disqualified.
JUDGING:
Entries will be judged according
to the overall quality of the
photograph, specifically subject
matter, composition of the
image, exposure, color and
focus.
Judges’ decisions will be final.
Each category may have a first-,
second- and third-place winner.
Honorable mentions may be
granted at the judges’
discretion. Winners will be
notified by e-mail or phone.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Prints must be no smaller than 8
inches and no larger than 14
inches. For instance, an
8-inch-by-8-inch-print will be
accepted, but not a
5-inch-by-7-inch print. (Digital
images will NOT be accepted, but
high-resolution digital files
may be requested for winning
entries.)
Photographs must not be matted,
framed or mounted.
Slides will not be accepted.
To view the winners of our 2008
contest,
click here.
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