Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum International Competition

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Fort Dearborn Chicago Photo Forum International Competition

The 30 winning images will be exhibited at Morpho Gallery in Chicago, and awarded other prizes as listed.

Categories:

Prizes:

First place in category winner receives Corel Painter XI software, a 16×20 mounted print of the winning image displayed at Morpho Gallery in Chicago, a $150 gift certificate from Canvas on Demand and magazine subscription to Rangefinder and AfterCapture magazines.
"Award of Excellence" awarded to the 25 highest-ranked images, after the 5 First Place awards, regardless of category. Award of Excellence winner receives a 16×20 mounted print of the winning image displayed at Morpho Gallery and a $150 gift certificate from Canvas on Demand.

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Digital Image Format:

Image title is the name that you give to the image, not necessarily the file name
Title cannot exceed 40 characters
Title can have spaces or hyphens between words
Title should not have characters:!@#$%^&*()_+
Format: JPEG - Resolution: 72 ppi (72 pixels/inch), compression 7
8 bit mode
RGB or SRGB color mode (not CMYK)
Size: 1280 pixels longest side

Submission Guidelines:

You can submit as many images as you want.
Photographs can be taken at any time, there are no date restrictions on when the image was taken.
Images can be published or unpublished, as long as you have the rights to submit the images to the competition.
Images must have no border, embedded marks, or logos.

Official web site: http://www.chicagophotoforum.org/IPC2010.html

Copyright: Author of the image retains ownership of the image copyright but agrees that photographs may be reproduced for the purpose of marketing and promoting of Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum competitions without any payment by us of any kind.
Eligibility: Open to professional and nonprofessional photographers 18 years of age or older.
Entry fee: US$45 for the first 3 images you submit, $15 for each additional image. Early-bird special: pay for your images before February 15, 2010 and the entry fee is reduced to $36 for the first 3 images, and $12 for each additional image.
Entry deadline: Early-bird entry: 15 February, 2010. The last day for submitting images is 15 April, 2010.