Photocompete

• Copyright: Photographer retains full copyright of material. TeraBella Media reserves the right to use without compensation certain selected images for the promotion and the advertisement of contests sponsored by TeraBella Media, LightBox Solutions and/or Profotio.
• Entry fee: $15 (USD)
• Entry deadline: 12th August 2010
• Who can enter: Open to all individuals 18 years and older, both professional and non-professionals.

You are invited to submit up to three photos that poignantly display that special relationship between people and pets. We are looking for the most touching and heartfelt images!

Prizes:

• First Place winner receives $300 plus a one year membership with Profotio and their winning image will be displayed on the front page of Profotio.
• Second place winner receives $150
• Third Place winner receives $75.00
• Additionally, second and third place will receive Profotio memberships and their images will be displayed on the front page.

Wining images will be selected on the following criteria:

• 25% credit to adherence to theme of contest
• 25% credit to originality of thought
  
• 25% to artistic interpretation
  
• 25% to photographic skills.

Both color and b&w pictures are accepted. Please submit all images on line. Only JPEG files will be accepted. Images with watermarks, captions and/or borders will not be accepted. The size of the images should be 800 pixels as the largest dimension (width or height.) All layers should be flattened and have a jpg compression quality of 7or 8. Images should be saved with a resolution of 72ppi. Images will be viewed as sRGB profiles. File names should be in the following format: Lastname_Firstname_image1.jpg, Lastname_Firstname_image2.jpg, etc. Do not use special characters. There should only be one period just prior to the file extension (i.e. .jpg). Please note: image title is not the same as file name. Each entrant may submit up to three (3) images.

Official web site: http://profotio.com/contest.php