February Photo Contest Guidelines

Global College Photo Contest, February 2009

Description: With the hopes of contributing to our Global College community through sharing pictures, a photo contest will be held monthly during the two semesters of the 08/09 academic school year.

December Winner:
-Lizzie Burrow’s photos from Ecuador and China are the winners for the Photo Contest in January. Congratulations Lizzie! You will receive a $25 gift certificate to www.Amazon.com. Please visit http://globalcollegephotocontest.blogspot.com/ to see Lizzie’s photos, along with all the amazing photos that were submitted for the Photo Contest. You can also share this blog link with friends and family.

February Theme:
-Once again, pictures of Global College student(s)! The winner’s pictures of the February Photo Contest may be used on Global College’s new bookmark that will be used in advertising/marketing. We are looking for professional-like, high quality photos for the bookmark. We will give these bookmarks to prospective students, high school counselors, etc. So, these photos need to represent Global College.

Deadline:
-Pictures must be emailed to Susana.Smith@liu.edu on or before February 27th, 2009. Please only send one email with either one or two pictures.

Guidelines:
-The FILE OF the photo must be labeled include the photographer’s name & date of photo.
-One person can submit one to two photos per contest.
-There will be one photo contest per month, during the Fall and Spring semester, for a total of eight photo contest during the 08/09 academic school year.
-Global College students and staff can participate.
-There will be one winner per contest.
-The Global College listserve will be used to announce each monthly photo contest, the contest’s theme and the contest’s deadline.
-Each Global College center will post a flyer to announce each monthly photo contest, the contest’s theme and the contest’s deadline.
-The Global College listserve will be used to announce the winner each month.
-Photos must be in “Jpeg” format.
-Photos must be 200 DPI (Dots per Inch), but preferably 300.
-All contributed photos will be posted on http://globalcollegephotocontest.blogspot.com/.
- Every picture should come with a one sentence description outlining where it was taken and what captivated the photographer to take the picture.
-Photos must be appropriate, so no profanity, nudity or vulgarity.
-Photos must be emailed to Susana.Smith@liu.edu on or before the monthly deadlines.
-By submitting photos, the photographer is giving permission for Global College to use the picture(s) to share with the Global College community, for marketing purposes and to be posted on the internet.
-All submitted photos must be from an experience while studying with Global College.

Reward:
-The photographer of the winning photo will receive a $25 gift certificate to www.amazon.com

Questions:
-Contact Susana.Smith@liu.edu