The 3rd Annual Geography Awareness Photo Contest
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As part of the Annual
Geography Awareness Week, the Department of Geography in collaboration
with Geography
Student Association conducts its annual Photo
Contest. Its
goals are to raise awareness of geography in
the CSULB community, promote appreciation of the visual approach to
landscape understanding and just to have fun.
Deadline: Mon Nov 7th, 2005
EXTENDED TILL tHUR nOV 10TH!
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Participation
This competition will be
judged by members of the department: students, staff, faculty and
alumni,
but participation is open to all.
For this contest, any image other then submitted for our two previous contests may be entered.
Each contestant can submit up to four different photos altogether; they could be all for one category.
A single image or its close versions may not be entered in more than one category. Each
contestant must be the sole author and owner of the copyright in all photos entered.
Images will be judged on their appeal to voters which is usually based on composition,
technique, content and originality. The number of winners per category will be determined by the quantity and quality
of the images in each category. A public exhibit of submitted images will be held during Geography Awareness Week.
Best images could be held on display in the department and on the web-site.
Categories Physical Landscape (PL): the emphasis is on the land, sea, and air
Flora and Fauna (FF): focus on plants and/or animals
Urban Landscape (UL): life in the city (does include historic ruins)
Rural Landscape (RL) life on the farm (but not restricted to farm life only)
People/Culture (P/C): where examples of people and culture are more important than the setting.
Department related activities excluded (not that we are not people or
cultured!)
Geography in Action (GA): what geographers do (department-related activities go here)
Migration (M): this is a floating category addressing this year’s theme of the Geography Awareness Week
We will vote also for The Best Image across all categories.
Procedures Submit the following before deadline (Nov 7th, 2005) to the Department of Geography (Jim Woods):
1. An unmatted and unframed 8 x 10 or 8 X 12 print(s) of your photo(s), with just title, location, and year written on
the back (no identity info here). Larger images (up to 11X14) are allowed too.
B&W and color are equally acceptable. Negatives, slides and digital files are not acceptable. Digital
photos are okay if submitted as regular printouts on white paper or special photo paper. Images must not have
been digitally altered in any way other than necessary burning, dodging and cropping.
2. To expedite the process, email separately to Nick Carlson (i_am_nick_c@yahoo.com) as an enclosure into
the body of your email message, not as attachment, answers to the following questionnaire: a. your name;
b. category (from the list above); c. the title of your photo, d. the location where the photo was taken, e. year,
f. the equipment used to take the image and g. one or two sentences explaining the geographical significance
of your photo. Additionally (but not instead of), submit a printout hardcopy of that information with your submission.
3. If you wish to have your image(s) returned via mail, enclose an appropriate self-addressed, stamped envelope.
The photos will be on display during Geography Awareness Week. All departmental members will receive
ballots to vote for their favorite photos. Winners will be announced at the close of the Week. Only images
that are not winners in their categories will be returned. Do not submit unique print outs -- the Department
of Geography is not responsible for possible damages to or losses of images while they are displayed.
The winning image(s) become the property of the department (the photographer, however, retains the rights to the image).
The department reserves the right to reproduce, publicly exhibit and/or publish the image in its publications in conjunction
with the contest, without payment to the photographer. All model releases are the responsibility of the photographer.
Entry to the contest constitutes agreement.
Questions? Contact Nick Carlson
(i_am_nick_c@yahoo.com). Check departmental web-site for updates.
Last year winners: http://www.csulb.edu/~dsidorov/PhotoContest/F04_Winners.html