March Madness Photo Contest
How creative can you be with a camera?
As part of March Madness, DBC hosts a March Madness Photo Contest. Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
- Take photos (Russell Reagan)
- Allegorical
- Bike-Specific
- Blue Squirrel (for “quirky” and especially, uh, interesting photos)
- Human Interest
- Humorous
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Best of Show
Here's how the contest works:
- Minimalism
- All photos must be taken sometime in March.
- All photos must be submitted by April 10. Options for submission are set out below.
- You can, and should, designate which category (or categories) you want your picture to be included in; the judges may, however, decide they also belong in additional categories.
- All judges' decisions are final, and the presents nice, but nothing to squabble over.
- Award winners will be announced in the newsletter and presented at the March Madness banquet in June.
- Links to 2009, 2010, and 2011 contest winners.
How to submit photos for consideration:
- Just your typical dead squirrel...er, Blue Squirrel...photo
- DBC has an online web gallery. Any person who registers with the gallery can post pictures there. All pictures should be posted to the appropriate annual "March Madness" folder.
- Maximum file size is 1280 x 1084 pixels; smaller is better, but there is no need to go below 640 pixels on the longest side. Please remember to reduce your file resolution to 72dpi.
- Use tags to place your photo into all categories you think apply.
- There is a full set of instructions to get you registered with the gallery site and to upload pictures at http://gallery.dbcnewsletter.org/v/how_to/.
- Please remember: upload all pictures into the March Madness Photo Contest folder, or we'll never find them.
- We get a bit shameless in March
2. Or send your digital pictures to someone else to post for you
- If you do not feel comfortable posting pictures to the gallery, we'll do it for you. Contact Steve Macaulay and he'll take care of it.
- Before sending any pictures to Steve, please resize them to reduce file size (100-150k) and make sure they are in JPG format.
3. Or print them out and mail them
- Prints can be submitted too – we’ll scan them and return the originals. Contact Steve Macaulay to make arrangements.
