image by Claudia Holwill
… to enter our first-ever Photography Contest! Summer is the time for going crazy with the camera, and we’re sure you have one (or ten!) contest winners hiding in your computer files. So what are you waiting for? Send us your awesome shots, people! Read up our contest’s fine print in the original post — or peruse it right here, reposted here for your ease and convenience:
All entries are due by 11:59 p.m. on August 5, 2011 and must be emailed to THIH at thihphotos (at) gmail.com. All images will be eligible for the following awards:
- Grand Prize: $100 gift certificate to Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW)
- Runner-up: Gift Certificate for two tickets to any performance at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
- Reader’s Choice Award, voted on by our readers: $40 Gift Certificate to Wisdom
Added note (8/2/11): if you would like us to consider a picture already in our Flickr photostream*, send us an email with your information to thihphotos (at) gmail.com
Readers will be able to vote for their favorite photo during the week of August 8-12, 2011. Grand prize and runner-up prize will be judged by THIH staff and considered based on creativity, whimsy, uniqueness, and adherence to the contest theme. Winners will be announced on THIH on Monday, August 15.
Rules, Terms. Fine Print: Photos must be emailed to the official THIH photo contest address (thihphotos at gmail.com) no later than 11:59 p.m. on August 5, 2011. Each submission should be provided in JPG or TIF format, no larger than 1 MB, and should be accompanied by the photographer’s name, email address, phone number, and mailing address. All judging decisions are final. Photos submitted to the contest will be added to the The Hill Is Home Flickr Pool; THIH reserves the right to use photos submitted in future posts on the website with proper text credit to the photographer. No additional compensation will be provided. By submitting a photo entry, the submitter asserts the submitted photo is his or her own work and that it bears no copywright. THIH staff and immediate family members are not eligible for this contest. THIH encourages free speech and dialogue, but photos containing nudity, vulgarity, or questionable subject matter may be disqualified by the editorial staff at their sole discretion.
* Pictures from Flickr need to reflect appropriate licensing and permissions so they can be used in the contest. If you submit a Flickr picture, we will contact you with more details so we can retrieve the file from Flickr for purposes of the contest only.