Photocompete

• Copyright: By entering this contest, entrants grant to sponsor and its licensees and assigns, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide right to copy, crop, edit, publish, display, distribute, sublicense or otherwise use their photographs for the full term of copyright thereof, in connection with the publication or display of sponsor's travel-related content. Any photographs used by sponsor pursuant to the license above shall be credited in the name used by entrant and submitted via email with photograph.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 1st September 2010
• Who can enter: Open only to people who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry and who are legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia or Canada (excluding Quebec).

Theme: San Francisco or the Bay Area.

Photographs may include landscape, locales, activities, people and/or animals, but must convey the allure of San Francisco.

Prizes:

• One Grand Prize Winner will have his/her photograph prominently featured on sfTravel.com and receive $100 USD.
• Three Runner-Up Winners will have their photographs featured on pages of sfTravel.com and will win $25 USD each.

Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

• impact of visual and verbal expression conveying the essence of San Francisco (25%);
• overall quality of photograph (25%);
• creativity/originality (25%);
• use of people / models in photograph (25%).

Photographs must be in color and must have been shot by entrant within the past five years (since July 18, 2005). Photographs previously published or pending publication are not eligible. All entries should be emailed to sfphotocontest at gmail dot com.

Official website: www.sftravel.com/photo-contest-san-francisco.html