GeocacheAlaska! 2016 Calendar Photo ContestOnce again, you have the chance to be the envy of geocachers all over Alaska and have your favorite photograph grace our 2016 GeocacheAlaska! calendar. Calendars will be published on Zazzle shortly after the winning photos are selected at the end of October and the club will purchase a small number of calendars to have at events in December as well as your opportunity to order your own copy for pickup or mail order delivery. Entry into the contest is limited to Sourdough and Cheechako members of GeocacheAlaska! (joining as a Cheechako member is free).
The Photo Contest categories are:
Adventure (extreme)
Children
Containers
Flora
People
Places
Whimsy (fun)
Wildlife
Winter
You may enter up to THREE photographs in each category. Due to the format of the calendar, we prefer that all photos are in landscape format (the photo should be wider than it is tall). To be eligible for inclusion in the Calendar Contest the photographs must be taken in Alaska. Thirteen photos will be displayed full-size on the calendar with at least one picture chosen from each category. The number of photos selected from each category will depend on the number of submissions received. The photo garnering the most overall votes will be placed on the cover. Entries will be accepted through October 12, 2015, with the voting taking place during the next week. The Fundraising Committee reserves the right to review all submissions prior to opening public voting to accept or reject any photo entry for any reason. During creation of the calendar, we may select filler photos as needed to fill white space on the calendar.
By submitting your photo to this contest you grant GeocacheAlaska! Inc. the right to use and reprint the image in the Calendar, the Newsletter and on the GeocacheAlaska! website. Photo credit will be given to the photographer. There is no compensation awarded to the contest winners. Winners get the honor of having their picture grace a monthly page or the cover of the calendar and the happiness in knowing that their photograph was chosen to receive this honor.
Photographs may be submitted by emailing a high resolution copy to
PhotoContest@GeocacheAlaska.org. Please use the tag [PHOTO CONTEST] as the Subject Line of your message to help our email system sort your entries directly to our inbox instead of junking them to the SPAM box where they could get lost in the clutter.
In the body of the message, please state which category the photo is being submitted to, the names and/or geonickname of any recognizable people appearing in the photo as well as the geocache the photo is associated with. Please provide the GC number and the cache name, or link directly to the cache page using the url format coord.info/GCxxxxx. Include the photographer's real name and their geonickname. Please include a title or caption for the image if you have one.
All photos submitted to the Calendar Photo Contest will be posted on the GeocacheAlaska! website and will appear in the GeoFest Slide Show in December. Some photos may be selected and published in the GeocacheAlaska! Newsletter.
All photo submissions must be sent to the official photo contest email account AND include all the requested information above in order to be included in the contest. Rejected entries will receive one notice of missing information, inadequate photo size or resolution, or inappropriate content. The submitter will have until the close of the contest to correct any issues and resubmit their photo for further consideration.
If you have geocaching photos from your vacation or from outside of Alaska, these may also be submitted for inclusion in the GeoFest slide show by sending them to the same email account as above, but using the tag [SLIDE SHOW] in the subject line of your email. We still request that you include the info listed above, excluding the category. There is no limit to the number of photos you may enter into the slide show pool, so any and all geocaching-related photos are welcome. Rejected photo contest entries may be moved to the slide show at the discretion of GeocacheAlaska!
Note that ALL photo contest entries will automatically appear in the slide show at GeoFest. Other Alaskan sites that wish to show the slide show at their December or January events may request a copy of the slide show DVD at the conclusion of the photo contest.
If you have any questions, send an email to the photocontest email account.
Thank you for participating!