First Place Winner - photo by Gary Miller
Second Place Winner - photo by Jay West
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club kingsnake is proud to announce it is now accepting submissions for its 2007 concert photo contest. Last year's contest attracted over 500 photo entries from photographers around the world. This year we have timed the announcement to occur during Austin's SXSW festival.
The 2007 contest will be handled a bit differently, with monthly winners instead of weekly, and with larger prize incentives to the winners. This year's contest prizes are as follows:
Monthly Prizes: (selected at the first of each month)
1st Place - $100 Best Buy Gift Card
2nd Place - $50 Best Buy Gift Card
3rd Place - club kingsnake T-Shirt
Year End Prizes: (selected at the beginning of 2008)
1st Place - $2000 Camera Shopping Spree
2nd Place - Fuji F31 Point N Shoot Camera
3rd Place - $100 Best Buy Gift Card
This year's contestants will not have to worry about last year's winner. Moondog (Gary Miller) has decided to abstain so that he may join our volunteer staff as a staff photographer and help us with this year's contest. Moondog is not only SXSW's official photographer, but also a staff photographer for the Austin Chronicle, as well as the house photographer for a number of Texas major concert venues. Gary just got back from shooting Eric Clapton and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and hopefully will have some of these as well as many other concert photos to show us this year. Welcome aboard Gary!
SXSW participants will be able to view not only Gary's prize winning photo of James Brown, selected by a panel of judges that included Alice Cooper, but also second place winner Jay West's photo of Cee-Lo of Gnarls Barkley, and other select images from our gallery.
So how does it work? Simple - just upload a concert photograph that you have taken yourself (with a camera, not off someone else's web site) to our photo contest gallery. Make sure to include the artist's name and any other pertinent details such as the camera and lense used in the description. Every month 3 winners will be chosen, and at the end of the year the 3 best will be selected. This is kind of like American Idol for pictures except our contest judges have been told to keep their rude snickering to themselves.
Gentlemen (and Ladies)... Start your memory cards and POST AWAY!, the 2007 club kingsnake photo contest is now live! Post your images at http://clubpix.kingsnake.com/index.php?cat=521
The first person to enter a photograph in this years contest will get a FREE club.kingsnake T-Shirt!
Contest Rules
- You may enter as many concert photos as you like AS LONG AS THEY ARE PHOTOS YOU HAVE TAKEN!
- Entries must be posted before the end of the day on the last day of the month, according to the clocks on our systems.
- You must include a valid email address on your post for it to qualify.
- Staff and volunteers of OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc. and its associated sites are ineligible to participate in the contest although they may certainly post their photos as well.
- Anyone may enter, regardless of age, although for persons under 18 a parent or guardian must claim the prize.
- No purchase is required to participate.
- You must have a physical address somewhere on the planet earth that can receive parcels sent through the U.S. postal service.