American Photo - Images of the Year Competition

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2009 American Photo Images of the Year Competition

OFFICIAL RULES

1.  ELIGIBILITY:  
You must be 18 years or older as of September 12, 2009 to enter the contest. Employees of Bonnier Corporation and members of their immediate families are not eligible to enter or win.  The contest is open to both amateur and professional photographers.

2.  CONTEST DEADLINES:

Deadline September 12, 2009.

The Contest commences on April 23, 2009 and continues until September 12, 2009.

3.  CATEGORIES:
PHOTOJOURNALISM/DOCUMENTARY
COMMERCIAL WORK: ADVERTISING/EDITORIAL
PERSONAL WORK
STUDENT WORK
PORTRAITURE
NATURE
EXTREME

4.  ENTRY FEES:

Single Entry $25 | Series: $40 | Student Work: $10

Extended Deadline Entry $50

An entry can be either a single image or a series of images. A series
includes multiple images or pages that make up a cohesive related
story. A series is limited to a maximum of 10 images. To enter the
student work category you must currently be enrolled in classes.

4.  PRIZES:
To Be Announced

5.  SUBMISSIONS
The competition is open to work produced from September 1 2008 - September 12, 2009. Entries can be submitted by uploading the image and making a payment on the www.iotycontest.com website.

File specifications: submissions should be in JPEG format. This compresses the size of your file and should make for quick uploads. It's important to set your JPEG compression to maximum image quality (minimum compression) in order to prevent deterioration of image quality.

In Photoshop, saving your file via Save As, select JPEG for your image type, and put the quality slider to 12 (all the way to the right).

Filename should not have spaces i.e. "blue car.JPG" instead "blue_car.JPG"
File must have the correct extension ().
Filename should not have slashes i.e. "women/child.jpg"
Filename should not have odd charachters i.e. "%$@#*()

Contest is open to amateurs and pros.

Employees of Sponsor, Bonnier Corporation, publisher of American PHOTO magazine and popphoto.com web site ("Sponsor") and their immediate families are not eligible to enter or win.

Entrants name, address, email address, and category must be affixed to all entries.

6.  JUDGING/WINNERS:
The judging will be done in two stages: The initial stage will be done by the American PHOTO promo staff. The second stage will be done by a jury of outside experts selected by the editors of American PHOTO. Entries will be judged equally on creativity, technical expertise and aesthetic value. Entries will be ranked in descending order.  The decisions of the judges are final.

Winners will be notified via email or mail by October 19th, 2009. Winners may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, grant of rights, and a publicity and liability release within 14 days of notification, or alternate winners will be selected (alternate will be next highest ranked entrant). By entering this Contest and/or accepting a prize, you agree to allow Sponsor to use your name, city and state, voice and image in connection with publication of your winning entry and for promotional purposes (except where prohibited), without review, notification or approval.

7.  MISCELLANEOUS:
This Contest is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and is void where prohibited.  Winners agree that Sponsors and Prize Contributors, including their parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors and employees, shall not be liable for injury, loss or damage of any kind resulting from participating in this promotion or from the acceptance or use of any prize awarded.  Bonnier Corporation reserves the right to verify eligibility qualifications of any winner(s). Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of the web site, www.popphoto.com, or who is otherwise in violation of the rules.  Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Contest if it is not capable of completion as planned due to, for example, infection by a computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort.  In the event of early termination of the Contest, winners will be selected from all eligible entries received at the time of termination in accordance with the judging procedures described above.  In no event will Sponsor be responsible for any damages or losses arising out of access to and use of the web sites or the downloading from and or printing material downloaded from said site.

Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or misdirected entries. In the event of a dispute concerning the identity of a person submitting an online entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person in whose name the e-mail account is registered.

8.  WINNERS LIST:  A winners list will be available upon request once the January 2010 issue is released.

Sponsor:  Bonnier Corporation

Prize Contributors:  Sandisk, Blurb

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