The Yampa Valley Northwest Colorado Adventures Photo & Video Contest Rules & Entry Form
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Yampa Valley Adventures Great Outdoors PHOTO CONTEST “Walk On The Wildside” Photo Contest runs from April through September 2024. Finalists’ photos will be posted on online in April with the four entries receiving the most votes winning the following cash prizes: 1st Place $100, 2nd Place $75, 3rd Place $50, and 4th Place $25.
To enter, complete the submission form and upload your photos below. The only requirements are that the photos meet the contest theme and must be taken in Routt, Moffat, or Rio Blanco Counties. You are welcome to submit up to 10 photos.
If you have any questions, email yv.adventure.center@gmail.com
By clicking submit, you agree to the Rules & Regulations.
If you are the Grand Prize Winner or included in Top 10, you agree that the Yampa Valley Adventures may:
Use the photograph on the Internet and in Social- Media.
Use the photograph in the organization’s internal and external communications materials including but not limited to website and web publications, advertising, multimedia, and annual report.
Please tread lightly. Do not disturb wildlife or damage your surroundings while taking photographs.
Yampa Valley Adventures employees are not eligible to participate. Participants will retain all rights to any photograph submitted.
If you are the Grand Prize Winner or included in Top 10, you agree that Yampa Valley Adventures may:
Use the photograph on the Internet and in - Media.
Use the photograph in the organization’s internal and external communications materials including but not limited to website and web publications, advertising, multimedia, and annual report
There will be eight winning photographs. All eight photographs will be published in our Winter 2024 Travelogue Blog issue.
The overall winner will receive: $300, a one-year subscription, a hat, and a sticker pack.
The overall runner-up will receive: $200, a one-year subscription, a hat, and a sticker pack.
Each category winner will receive: $100, a one-year subscription, a hat and a sticker pack.
Each category runner-up will receive: $50, a one-year subscription, a hat, and a sticker pack.
Contest Rules
We know rules aren’t fun, but we live in a society, and we need rules to keep things on track. If you’re planning to submit a photo, please read this section carefully.
We’re Yampa Valley Adventures & N.W. Colorado Travelogue Blog and our lovely state is worthy of its own photo contest. As such, submissions must be from locations in Routt, Moffat, or Rio Blanco Counties. Any photos found to be from out-of-area locations will be disqualified.
Do not submit an image with a watermark, signature, or logo. This helps maintain anonymity during the judging process. Any photographer who submits an image with a watermark will be asked to remove it and resubmit. If that cannot be accomplished, the image will be disqualified.
We will not accept any photos showing abuse, misuse, or degradation of wild animals, plants, or landscape features.
We will not accept any photos showing illegal activities. If we have reason to question the legality of anything depicted in your image, we reserve the right to disqualify it.
Please do not send photo illustrations or images depicting altered reality. This includes abstract images or clearly altered (Photoshopped) images. Panoramas and composite images are OK so long as they do not clearly misrepresent reality. Any image deemed to be a photo illustration will be disqualified.
If your photo contains a recognizable person or minor under the age of 18, the recognizable person or the minor’s parent/legal guardian must sign a photo release form. If we decide a release form is needed, we will contact you following your submission. This is easy to do and shouldn’t deter you from submitting your photograph.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be received by September 30, 2024.
Submit all entries directly via email to yv.adventure.center@gmail.com with Photo Contest in the subject line.
You may submit one photo per category for a total of three photos per entrant. Do not submit multiple photos for a single category.
Maximum file size: 4 megabytes (MB).
To ensure that photos are judged fairly, please size your photo(s) for viewing on a screen. Please submit vertical images close to but no larger than 2,400 pixels (PX) on the vertical side. Please submit horizontal images close to but no larger than 2,400 PX on the horizontal side. If a panorama or other oddly sized image is chosen, we will work with you to size it properly for print. We recommend that you apply sharpening settings for viewing on a screen. The DPI/PPI doesn’t matter if you size your photo properly. Please don’t submit a high-resolution file. If your image is selected, we will ask you to send a high-resolution file with specific parameters.
We prefer photos to be submitted in the sRBG colorspace. If that’s over your head, or you’re unsure how to change the colorspace of your photograph, no worries.
Photographer’s Rights and Use of Images by Yampa Valley Adventures.
The photographer will retain all rights to their submitted photo(s), regardless of selection for publication. If submitted photo(s) are selected for publication, the photographer agrees to grant Yampa Valley Adventures permission to publish the photo(s) in its Winter 2024 print publication as well as the digital version of the article that will appear www.yampavalleyadventures.com. Yampa Valley Adventures may use any winning photograph(s) for use in materials promoting our Winter 2024 issue. Basically, we don’t own your photos—you do.
