If you are a CMC member, you are invited to enter the club's new photo contest. The plan has been greatly simplified this year in that there are no categories, just a theme. And the contest will end March 31, 2009. Theme for the contest this year is "Defining the Carolina Mountain Club Experience", and members will select the top three winners at the Spring Social, April 25, 2009 after seeing a slide show of the best entries. The theme will permit a wide range of subject material as long as it defines the club experience.
Rules:
1. Only digital entries will be accepted, and for pictures taken in 2008 or 2009.
2. To qualify for entry you must be a current paid-up member of the club at the contest closing.
3. Members may enter up to three pictures.
4. Photos may be modestly edited… nothing wild or unnatural.
5. Entries should be as large as your camera can take to assure a quality image for presentation. Check your camera's menu to make sure you are taking the highest resolution pictures. I will resize them for projection.
6. Prizes will be awarded at the Social… first, second and third.
7. Photos received after the closing date will not be considered as entries.
8. It would be helpful if you could rename your entries to include your name in the filename of the photo… to better identify the photos as yours. If you can't do it, I will rename them for you.
9. No entries will be accepted after March 31, 2009.
10. All entries submitted may be used by the club for publicity purposes.
Entries should be emailed to contestmcnabb@charter.net
Our theme this time around is broad enough to permit almost any club related image and could include vistas, forests, streams, waterfalls, close-ups, wildlife, flowers, the seasons, weather… even club meetings or events. Say in your email how your pictures relate to the theme, and on what occasion it was taken. Happy shooting.
-- Gerry McNabb
