Photo
Contest Prizes
Contest Categories
Images to Capture
Photo Contest Entry Rules
Criteria Considered
Photo Contest Entry Form
Right to Use Photographic Likeness
Release Form
Prizes: Three
prizes in
two categories (a total of six prizes)
Gift certificates to our Gardening with Kids catalog
and online store
First prize: $250 gift certificate
Second prize: $100 gift certificate
Third prize: $50 gift certificate
Contest
Categories
Photos may be submitted in two categories:
1. School and community
gardens
2. Home gardens
Images
to Capture
We are looking for pictures of kids (individuals or
small groups) engaged with plants and gardens. Save
your special rose shot for another contest if it doesn't include
children.
Consider
the
following
topic
areas to guide your photo selections:
observing, measuring, journaling
planting
setting up experiments
garden designs/features (e.g., raised beds)
specific flowers, vegetables, herbs
theme gardens (e.g., Native American)
garden creatures (e.g., worms, butterflies)
garden art (e.g., murals, painted fences)
garden structures (e.g., bean tepees, compost piles)
special plants (e.g., cotton, dye plants)
harvest "pride" shots
indoor projects (e.g., greenhouses, GrowLabs, worm bins)
Kidsgardening
Photo Contest Rules
- The
Kidsgardening Photo Contest is limited to entries postmarked
by Monday, October 1, 2007. Winners
will be announced on our Web site by Monday, October
22,
2007.
- A maximum
of 5 photos may be entered per person (entrant).
- Entrant
must be the photographer of the photos being submitted (to
avoid copyright violations).
- Photo format:
-
If you use a film camera,
please send prints (minimum size: 4" x 6")
with your entry form.
- If you use a digital camera, in order for your entry to
qualify you must save images as JPEG files to a CD (minimum
size: 1600 x 1200 pixels, or from a 2 megapixel camera set
at its
highest resolution) and send the disk with your entry form.
- All photos
must be in color.
- All subjects
in each photo must be clearly identified, and each photo must
be accompanied by dated Right
to Use Photographic Likeness release forms signed by parents
or guardians of all youngsters (under 18 years) appearing
in the photo.
- Each
photo must be accompanied by a completed Photo
Contest Entry Form.
- All
submissions should be in envelopes stapled to the corresponding
entry form and release forms.
- There
are no age restrictions for entrants, but a parent or legal
guardian must sign the Entry Form
for any entrant under the age of 18.
- Photo
submissions will not be returned.
- Winners
will be notified by mail, e-mail, or phone by Wednesday,
October 19, 2007.
- Winning
photos will be featured in a Kidsgardening online photo
gallery
for one month.
- NGA staff
and immediate family members are excluded from entering this
contest.
- Entrant
must assign ownership of all copyright in each photo to NGA,
without any payment by NGA.
- This
contest is open to U.S. residents only.
- No purchase
from NGA is necessary to participate. A purchase does
not improve chances of winning.
- By entering
the contest, each entrant agrees that NGA may use his/her
name or image for contest promotion.
- This
contest is void where prohibited by law.
- The
contest and all accompanying materials are copyright © 2007
by the National Gardening Association.
Criteria
Considered
Our judges,
who are experienced in image production and gardening with kids,
will
assess each photo based on visual appeal, composition, and technical
(photographic) merit.
Next: Entry Form
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