My Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words Photography Contest Winners:

Youth (age 17 and under)
 Grand Prize  - Katie Barrow
Honorable Mention -
Haley Wheat
  Adult (age 18 and up)  
Grand Prize Winner:
 Dan Cathey
Honorable Mention:
 Shantell Wyatt
2nd Runner Up in the Adult Age Group - Peggy Cathey 
 The Alvarado Public Library is sponsoring their first amateur photography contest. The contest will run from February 1st through March 26th.
There will be two age divisions: Youth (age 17 and under) and Adult (age 18 and up.)  There will be four categories: architecture, digitally altered, nature, and people.

 There will be one Grand Prize winner and an Honorable Mention winner selected in each of the two age groups.

The Grand Prize will be

 Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs by Ansel Adams.


The prize for Honorable Mention will be

American Ruins by Arthur Drooker.

 Special Prize for the Adult 2nd Runner Up:
Two tickets to the Wynonna Judd Concert at Bass Hall - courtesy of Suzanne Conlin.


Photography contest rules & regulations:

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Entries must include a completed entry form and a 5 X 7 photograph.

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Categories may be written on the back of the photograph but not your name or contact information. Entries will be “blind” judged.

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All photographs must be your original work and must be submitted to the library by Wednesday, March 26th.  for the purposes of this contest, an amateur is considered to be anyone who derives less than 50% of his/her income from photography.

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Entries will not be returned by mail.
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Winning entries may be picked up after the display period has ended on May 1st. Other entries may be picked up one week after the contest ends.
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 As long as the photograph submitted is no larger that 5 X 7 any type of camera may be used.

Winners will be announced at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, 2008.

 

Winning photographs will be published in the local newspapers and will be framed and kept on display at the library until April 30th.

 

Please mail your completed entry form along with your 5 x 7 photograph to:

“My Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words Contest”

Alvarado Public Library

210 N. Baugh St.

Alvarado, TX 76009

 

Or - Save the postage and bring your completed entry form and your 5 X 7 photograph in an envelope with “My Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words Contest” clearly written on the front to the library during your next visit.