Think you take good snaps? Then enter our amateur photo contest for your chance to see your pictures in print and win exciting prizes!
Contest information:
Cut this out and submit with your entry:
Name: ___________________
Age Group: _______________
Address: _________________
Phone: ___________________
Signature: ______________________________________
My signature states that I am eligible and that I have read and agreed to the contest rules below.
Contest rules:
1. This contest has two categories: 18 and over, and under 18.
2. The topic is “Life in Hudson County.”
3. Photo must have been taken between June 1, 2006 and July 31, 2006.
4. Participants can submit up to five pictures (B&W or color) with captions in hard copy form or e-mail. (If submitting by email, send (.jpg) one at a time to: current@hudsonreporter.com. Pictures won’t be returned, so keep the originals.
5. Any photos of people with identifiable features (like a close-up of a person’s face) must have the subject’s names and contact information, to verify permission to print.
6. Deadline is Aug. 1 and winners will be announced in August. Photographs will be published in an August issue.
7. The first and second place winners in each category will receive gift certificates for local restaurants and businesses, and be published in the paper. Winners must be willing to have their name used in articles about the contest.
8. Participants agree to consent to have photos published in any form now known or invented later – whether print, electronic, or any other format in any of the Hudson Reporter’s publications and publishing venues at any time.
9. Those who do not win first or second place, but are published anyway, will receive honorable mention prizes.
10. The Reporter reserves the right to not award all prizes if the judges believe not enough entries merit the prize.
Eligibility:
1. Employees of the Hudson Reporter newspapers are not eligible.
2. Professional photographers, meaning those who have earned more than $500 in any year for photography, are ineligible.
3. Entrants must be residents of Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken, Bayonne, West New York, Union City, North Bergen, Guttenberg, or Secaucus, which are in the Reporter newspaper chain’s distribution area (www.hudsonreporter.com).
Send form and photographs to: The Current, 1400 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ, 07030. Please put “photo contest” on the envelope.
Read the Current at www.hudsoncurrent.com each week.
Good luck!