You, or someone you know, got a camera for Christmas. Chances are, it was a kid.
In keeping with my dual responsibilities as Contest Encouragement Chair for the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association and Prize Procurement Officer of the Kittitas County Field and Stream Club, I have a suggestion.
Perhaps the biggest photo contest ever held in our region is now underway. The contest, in association with Shuyler’s Central Washington Sportsmen Show, is co-sponsored by the Field and Stream Club and Cabela’s, which are providing ribbons and prizes. This year’s prizes include ribbons for all classes, winners’ photos printed on stretched canvas and Cabela’s gift cards. Enter your wildlife and wild places photos and encourage others to play.
Prizes will be awarded to winners in several adult and kid categories. The two age groups are 1) kids, 16 and under, and 2) 17 and older. This is a great opportunity to get young people psyched about, and started on, outdoor photography.
Deadline for entry of your digital photo (.jpeg format) is February 6—you have about three weeks. (Did I mention that it is free?) All photos will be continuously displayed during the Central Washington Sportsmen Show, in the SunDome, February 14, 15 and 16. Prizes will be awarded around Noon on Sunday, the 16th.
You have plenty of time to splash through the photos you are already thinking about entering, with time left over to get out into the valley and take photos of the wildlife all around us. Entering the digital photos themselves will take only a minute or so.
I am, herewith, providing a general overview of the contest, but for official instructions and rules, go to www.shuylerproductions.com and click on “Photo Contest.” Your .jpeg photos must be uploaded by midnight 6 February.
The entries must be photographs, not visual or graphic art manipulations. You must be the original photographer, and hold copyright to all photos submitted. Photographs of living fish and/or wildlife may include one or more people, and camp site scene photos are invited. Photographers may not excessively alter or change photographs with photo editing software. No print/film submissions will be accepted, and no profane language, violence, nudity, or personal attacks on people or organizations is allowed. You agree to indemnify Shuyler Productions for a mess arising from any violation of trademark, copyright or whatever in your photo. Shuyler gets to use your photo (with proper credit) as it sees fit, although you retain full ownership and copyrights. There are a few more details, but you’ll see them when you enter your photo. It is easy and straightforward.
Prizes and ribbons will be awarded on the basis of the judges’ decisions, and all decisions of the judges and/or the Photo Committee are final. Awards will be in two age groups, adult (seventeen and older) and youth (sixteen and younger). First and second place (and honorable mention) ribbons will be awarded for adult and youth photos and one “best of show” award will be given. Each winner will also receive a stretched canvas print (8” by 10”), suitable for framing, of his or her winning photo. Other prizes include Cabela’s gift cards.
All photos entered and accepted into the contest and exhibit will be displayed on a large flat screen TV during this week’s 2014 Tri-Cities Sportsmen Show (early entries only, obviously) and at the Central Washington Sportsmen Show in February. The entry deadline is 06 February and prizes will be awarded during the show—February 14 to 16 in the SunDome.
It’s free and fun and easy and you have three weeks. Go to www.shuylerproductions.com and click on the photo contest, then the link to enter photos. Fill out the online form and upload your photo. A series of two or more photos should be specified and uploaded in order. That’s all there is to it. If you run into a snag, contact Dennis Marquis at [email protected].
Did I mention that it is free, easy, and a great opportunity to get a kid of any age excited about wildlife and outdoor photography?
