About the Competition:

Have you taken a photograph that you think is exceptional, and a potential award winner?

 

This is your chance to shine! The Ninth Annual Sherman Hines Museum of Photography Postcard Competition is now underway and we are awaiting your spectacular images!

 

The Postcard competition issues a challenge to make your wonderful photographic images into a postcard! Unlike most photography contents, the Postcard competition is inexpensive and easy to enter... a postcard requires no packing, mailing costs are under 60 cents Canadian, matting and framing costs are non-existent, and the cost of enlarging is eliminated. It is as easy as putting a stamp on the back of your photograph!

 

Get inspired – this is truly an open subject contest and the judge, Sherman Hines, has no image boundaries. Go for humor or drama, brilliant color or serene black and white, pets, lifestyle, portraits, or pictorials; go wherever your imagination takes you! Every photographer has a favorite image, a picture that "says a thousand words"; what a chance to show it!

 

Terrific prizes will be awarded to 20 winners. Read the rules of entry below then grabyour camera, and start shooting!

 

Rules of Entry:
This contest is open to amateur photographers only; an amateur photographer is someone who does not make a living on the income of photography. Employees of the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography are not eligible to enter.
 

Subject matter is open. Let your imagination be your guide!
 

Maximum four (4) entries per person.

 

Photographs submitted may be 3-1/2" x 5", 4" x 6", 5" x 7" or panoramic and may be either color or black and white.

 

Each print must be individually mailed as a postcard. Photographs sent in envelopes will be disqualified. Images damaged or stamped by the mailing process will not be penalized.

 

Each entry must include the title of the image, photographer's name, address, phone number and signature (signifying that the image is your own). Non-winning entries will not be returned, but may be picked up at the Museum.

 

Submission of entries implies acceptance of rules of entry and permission to publish as promotion for this, and future contests.

 

All entries must be postmarked on or before December 23^rd, 2007.
 

Winners will be notified by mail by May 1^st, 2008.

 

Winning entries and honourable mentions will be displayed at the Museum in the Postcard Gallery throughout the 2006 season.

All entries and inquiries should be addressed to:
Postcard Competition
Sherman Hines Museum of Photography
PO Box 940
Liverpool NS  B0T 1K0
Phone/Fax: (902) 354-2667