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See your photo on the City of Lexington website and enter to win $100! |
Whether photography is your passion, your hobby, or just an occasional pastime, we invite you to participate in our City of Lexington photo contest, celebrating the beauty and unique character of Lexington.
Winning photos – and other submitted photos - will be displayed on the www.cityoflex.com website. Both amateur and professional photographers are welcome to participate. Photos may be submitted as prints or in digital format; see contest rules for details.
City of Lexington Photo Contest - Entry Form
Please read the complete contest rules before entering.
OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES
No purchase or payment necessary to enter or win
Photo Eligibility
To enter, contestants must be at least 14 years of age and a U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident (green card). City of Lexington employees and City Council members and their immediate family members are not eligible. Immediate family includes only spouses, parents and children. All photos must be in color and taken around Lexington within the last three years. Possible subjects include:
- Lexington events and activities
- Lexington area wildlife & nature scenes
- Lexington area recreation
- Lexington agriculture & rural life
- Lexington arts & culture
- Use your creativity!
Photo Formats
Entries may be color prints or digital images. Black and white images are not eligible. Please read the specific guidelines for submitting prints and digital images.
Photographer/Copyright
Entries must be submitted by the original photographer. Do not submit a photo taken by someone other than yourself. You must be the sole owner of the copyright of any image submitted. Your submission of the photo and entry form is your guarantee that you are the author and copyright holder of the photo.
Number of Entries
An individual may submit only one photo per month (May/June, July, August or September 2010). However a contestant may win only once in each category (first or second place).
Photo Subject Restrictions
Photos must be appropriate for posting on a public government website. Obscene, provocative or otherwise questionable content will not be considered. The City of Lexington retains sole discretion as to what constitutes inappropriate content. By submitting a photo showing recognizable people or small groups, contestant avows he or she has permission of the subjects in the photo.
Return of Photos
Photos, regardless of the medium, will not be returned. Please do not send your only copy of a photo.
Ownership/Use Rights
Photographers retain the copyright to their photographs. By entering the contest, photographers agree to have their submitted photograph displayed on the City of Lexington website without any fee or other form of compensation, and agree that the City may display submitted photos at various times and rotations on appropriate City website pages. Posted photos will be subject to the City of Lexington website photo use policy. Winning photos will be credited to the photographer named in the entry form. Entries (including non-winning entries) may be selected for display or use in other City of Lexington web pages. Entrants agree that submission of photos constitutes permission for use of photos in this way. Entries will never be used by the City of Lexington in any manner for commercial use or sale. In the event that ownership of any photograph submitted to the City of Lexington is contested in any manner, the City of Lexington retains the discretion to disqualify that photograph and discontinue use of the photograph.
How to Enter
Digital photos may be submitted using the online entry form. Prints may be mailed along with completed entry forms to the City of Lexington (see further instructions below). Each entry must be accompanied by a completed contest entry form. If you are submitting multiple entries, be sure to indicate clearly which form belongs with each photo.
Judging
Entries will be judged on the basis of creativity, photographic quality, and effectiveness in conveying the beauty and/or unique character of Lexington. Entries that fail to comply with the Official Contest Rules will be disqualified from prize eligibility.
Winners
Judges will select a first and second place winning photo for each month (June, July, August & September 2010). If fewer than ten eligible photographs are entered in a month, the City may choose to name only a first place winner, or may cancel that month’s prize and combine with the following month’s entries. In addition, one or more honorable mention winners may be selected if there are especially large numbers of entries, at the discretion of the City. Winners will be notified within three weeks after the contest deadline by phone and email using the information on the entry form.
Prizes
One first place winner per month will receive $100. One second place winner per month will receive $50.
Submitting Digital Images
Digital images should be submitted using the online entry form. Preferred but not required: images formats should be 72 dpi, no larger than 600 by 450 pixels and no smaller than 450 by 338 pixels. Panoramic photos are not encouraged. Images should be submitted in JPG (at high quality) or TIFF format. File sizes should be less than 500K per image. Images must be in natural color. Black and white, sepia tone, and duotone images are not eligible. Digital images will not be returned.
Image Modifications:
Minor digital enhancement is permitted, but images that have been significantly modified or appear unnatural will be disqualified.
Not Permitted:
- No borders or frames may be added to images.
- No watermarks, signatures, or copyright notices may be added to images. All winning images will be displayed with the photographer's name.
- Adding or replacing elements in an image is not permitted.
- Artistic filters are not permitted.
Permitted Modifications:
- Images may be cropped and rotated as necessary as long as the rectangular format is maintained and the size is within the specifications above.
- Images may be resized as long as the aspect ratio is maintained
- Red-eye removal and spot editing
- One-step enhancement (such as "AutoFix", "QuickFix", "Auto Levels", etc.)
- Use of filters to sharpen, soften, blur, despeckle, or remove noise.
- Use of corrective functions to improve the natural appearance of the image, such as levels, contrast, brightness, curves, intensity, tone, hue, saturation, lightness, value, color balance, and tint.
Submitting Prints
Prints must be 4 x 6 inches or 5 x 7 inches and must be in color. Do not send negatives. Attach a label to the back of each print with your name and address. Do not write on the photo itself. If submitting multiple entries, number each print to match a corresponding entry form. Prints will not be returned.
Mail print along with a printed-out-and-completed entry form (one form per photo) to:
Lexington Photo Contest
City of Lexington
PO Box 70
Lexington, NE 68850
(or bring to 406 E 7th Street)
Additional Terms and Conditions
The City of Lexington is not responsible for computer system, hardware, software, or program malfunctions or other errors, failures, or delayed computer transactions or network connections that are human or technical in nature. Furthermore, the City is not responsible for: (i) lost, misdirected, misplaced, illegible, unintelligible, incomplete, or late entries or (ii) any act, failure to act, or delay regarding the transmitting or processing of entries. The City of Lexington reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend all or any portion of this contest without notice if factors beyond the City’s control, including technical difficulties, or events that disrupt or corrupt the fair or secure administration or operation of the contest. The City is entitled to interpret these rules as needed and its decisions are final. The City reserves the right to disqualify any entrant that the City has reason to believe is not the original work of entrant, or does not otherwise meet the contest rules. By participating in the contest, entrants agree to release and hold harmless the City of Lexington and its employees, officers, affiliates, agents, and advertising and promotional agencies from any and all damages, injuries, claims, causes of actions, or losses of any kind resulting from your participation in this contest, including infringement of intellectual property rights. City of Lexington and its employees, officers, affiliates, agents, and advertising and promotional agencies assume no responsibility or liability for any damages, injuries, claims, causes of actions, or losses of any kind arising in whole or in part from this contest.
