Smithsonian magazine 5th Annual Photo Contest
| Deadline: January 3rd, 2008 |
Contestants can enter photographs in five categories, The Natural World, Americana, Altered Images, Travel and People, that represent subjects of special interest to the magazine. Fifty finalists will be selected, ten for each of the five categories. Smithsonian will notify the 50 finalists by March 31, 2008. From these 50 finalists, five category winners and a grand prize winner will be selected. The entries of all winners and finalists will be published on the magazine’s Web site on April 1, 2008. At that time, readers can vote online for one readers’ choice winner. The winning entries and select finalists will be published in the print edition of Smithsonian magazine during summer 2008.
Category winners will be awarded $500. The readers’ choice winner will be awarded $500. The grand prize winner will receive a four-day, three-night Smithsonian Journeys Grand Canyon Weekend Adventure for two from July 11-14, 2008, or the cash equivalent.
The Smithsonian magazine photo contest is open to amateur photographers ages 18 and over. Photographers who earn more than half of their income taking photographs are not eligible. Submitted photographs must have been taken within the past three years (since January 1, 2005)
Deadline: All entries must be uploaded by 2pm Eastern Time, Thursday, January 03, 2008.