Through out the year there are NUMEROUS contests available to you. I have created this page to try to list them all out. Some contests we will focus on as a class (usually Photo II) and will be noted elsewhere (Focus and/or assignment pages). I have put the general due dates...follow the links to find out the exact deadlines which change from year to year. Note: Class deadlines are usually 2-4 days ahead of the official deadline to allow for mailing, etc. Some have entry fees, but there are prizes...some of them quite good. Others are free to enter and still have prizes.  Some are PRINT and have to be mailed, and some are DIGITAL and STILL have to be mailed, on a disk, while others can be submitted via email and/or the internet.

Entering contests that are not required as class will help you to earn bonus points and earn a position on the Lamar and Shangri La Field Trips in April.

See results of some of these contests on the Student Award page. And remember, even after the school year is over, you can enter this years photos in many of these contests NEXT year, even if you are no longer a student at West Brook.

• September

  • *Winnie Rice Festival. $4 per entry. Good prizes. Local contest...with local recognition! GREAT chance of winning if you have good stuff due to the low number of people (compared to some of the national contests listed below) and the large number of categories each with a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as well as HMs. Categories include: Rice, Family Living, Black & White, Open, and Wildlife & Nature (including pets). Class Deadline late August or early September.

  • Jasper Fall Fest - Yearly - Due Late September. See below.

  • Football - Canon and NFL has sponsored a shoot out the past couple of years...not sure if and when this will be offered again. http://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/NFL/site.html#/amateurPhotoContest

  • Icehouse - Late September. for more info and current entry forms and see older details below

• October

  • Harvest Festival Photo Contest - Yearly...due in Early October. Entry fee is $3.00 with Adult and Junior Divisions. Contact 409-283-2272 for more info and current entry forms and see older details below.
  • *Reflections - This contest is sponsored by the PTA and is a NQE. Winners from the local chapter (this school) will be recognized, generally with prizes. One year, they gave everybody who entered a prize. Winners will then be advanced to the State and then national level.
  • *ATPI Fall Contest - 50¢ entries. Great way to be recognized at the state level among all of the Texas photo schools. Possible scholarship $ in conjunction with other contests. This even will also serve as a FTQE.
  • http://www.earthsciweek.org/contests/photography/index.html  - Appears to be a repeating contest.

• November

  • Nikon has offered a nice contest each year since 1969.

• December

  • *PIEA - HIGHLY...recommended...LOTS of prizes, low entry fee ($1). Send in your best stuff!! (Note EARLY Dec deadline)

  • pdnedu Student Photo Contest - Digital Submissions! Kind of expensive at $12...but good prices, like Digital SLRs, PER category...five cameras total in 2010. Do you have some neat digital pictures?

  • http://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/ - Optional and Free Digital Contest...Dec 1st (appears to be a repeating contest)

• January

  • *Protégé Competition and Exhibition - Art Museum of Southeast Texas - Competition open to 12th Grade Students. HIGHLY recommended...with significant scholarship and prize money available for the winners. Deadline is mid to late January of each year.

• February

  • *Third Floor Photographic Society Annual High School Shoot-Out - LOW entry fee of only $0.50 per entry. Lots of categories. Images must be mounted.

  • *Self Portrait Contest. Got a Self Portrait (i.e. You shot yourself)? Want to enter it in a contest? Check out the details on the Self Port page. All mounted pictures must be mounted and ready to go for Feb. This can not count as your PDP for the 6 weeks, but can be used for bonus or make up points...in addition to a great opportunity to compete in a contest. The entry fee is only 50¢ per entry.

  • The Art of Photography Show - http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/ National Contest, early Feb. Kind of expensive...but top prize is $1,000! So, if you think you have got a winner, enter it. The more you enter, the less the entry fee...$25 for the first entry, $10 for 2+.

• March

  • *SET State Fair. $2.50 per entry. Good prizes. Local contest...with local recognition! GREAT chance of winning if you have good stuff due to the low number of people (compared to some of the national contests listed below). Only one category: Open. If you are 18 or over, you could enter the adult division which has a larger prizes. Class Deadline: Two days before the first Thursday in October.

  • Boomtown Film and Music Festival - Enter your video creations here. Contest Deadline fell during March in 2008 but does vary from year to year...so check in on this one early.

• April/May

  • **Hal Fulgham Memorial Scholarship - http://atpi.org/fulgham.htm) ATPI Member Schools Only. April

  • **Texas Imagemakers - http://atpi.org/team.htm ATPI Member Schools Only. April

  • Sharon Jacobus Memorial Scholarship - http://atpi.org/jacobus.htm - ATPI Member Schools Only. April

   

  • ***End of Year Contest - 1st and 2nd year go head to head at Parkdale Mall in a school wide competition. Late April (usually at the end of the 5th 6 weeks).

  • ***Main F Hall and Library Display - After the Parkdale Mall EOYC, we will bring the winners back to WB and put them on display for a couple of weeks.

   

  • Hardin County Music Fest - This was in Sept...but must have gotten Iked. So, for the past few years, it was moved to May. 

  • *Photo Finale - this is a contest sponsored by Trinity High School. Check out the page I created to help track the submission details. This is an email submission contest with a low entry fee...so easy to enter to get some good feedback with some of your images.

• Summer

  •     Texas Photographic Society - National Competition. Deadline is usually in early July.

 

* Required for Photo 2

** Required for Photo 3 (in addition of Photo 2 Contests)

*** Required for all students.

A note regarding contests. Entering contest can definitely be frustrating...I will be the first to tell you that. But, like Babe Ruth, you may have to strike out a few times to hit a home run. Personally, I am the KING of Club 6...which is the lowest score you can receive at the BCC Monthly Competition: http://forum.bcc.drewloker.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=99

So, why enter? Because the process of entering forces me to at the very least prepare my images for contest. It forces me to look over sometimes 1,000s of recent photos that I may never have looked at. And, occasionally, I win one. Maybe one day I will be famous.

 

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New contest just added for 2008-09 by Region 5 Education Service Center. There is over $750 in prize money on the table with first place receiving $500!! (or...a Prom package valued at over $1,000)

Please stop whatever you are working on and work up a T-Shirt Design in Photoshop.

Your mission: Show us what tobacco can cost you in a t-shirt design in art or words.

Entries must be original artwork incorporating Tobacco Costs messages. No clipart. I think incorporating a photo your took would be a great idea...or it can be free art (using Photoshop or technically you could use Paint.net)

Check out http://www.tobaccocosts.org/students/ for ideas of possible images and slogans. Make it your own. Be creative. Use the filters. Use an image you have taken, put a twist on it (some sort of filter, or reverse image, or something), put some text on it, see what you can do with the text to fancy it up.

Open Photoshop and create a new document that is 8.5 x 11 x 200 dpi.

 

When you are finished...in Photoshop, Save As as a .jpg with a file name of "Tobacco Costs TShirt by your FULL name". Set the Jpeg Quality to 10-12 depending on the file size indicated...trying to keep it to 1-2 MB.

Let me know you are sending the email using the following instructions.

Email the .jpg file to

        TobaccoCostsBeaumont@enviromedia.com

        and CC me at

        lokerd@hotmail.com

Attach the email and include with your entry (in the body of your email). Be sure to put a subject for your

Your name:

School name:        West Brook HS

Teacher’s name:  Drew Loker

Grade:

Address:

Email address: 

Contact phone: 

 

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2010 Official Rules for the

26^TH Annual Jasper Fall Fest Photography Contest

(Sponsored by the EAST TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB)

 

Adult Division

 

CATEGORIES:  

             *Scenic/Landscape                                        * Flowers/Plants

             *Sunrises/Sunsets                                           * People

             *Animal/Wildlife                                           * Black & White (includes Sepia)

             *Insects/Nature                                              * Miscellaneous                                               *Digitally Manipulated                           

                                   

SPECIFICATIONS:

(1)           Photos must Not Be Smaller than 8x8 or larger than 8x12, and must be matted.  ONLY 11x14, BLACK or WHITE mats may be used.  NO OVAL or DECORATIVE Mats PLEASE! NO EXCEPTIONS.  If your mat or picture does not meet the requirements, it will not be included in the competition, but WILL be displayed on Saturday during the Festival. 

(2)           NO FRAMED photos will be accepted.

(3)           Each entry must have an Official Entry Form attached to the back of the photo.

(4)           A $3.00 entry fee must accompany each photo submitted.  Checks should be made payable to the EAST TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB.

(5)           Entries must be received by 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, September 23, 2010.

(6)           Entries may be mailed to:                  East Texas Photography Club

                                                                                % Carolyn Chambliss

                                                                                7324 US HWY 190 W.

                                                                                Jasper, TX  75951

               

                OR hand-delivered to:                        Jasper Chamber of Commerce

                                                                                246 E. Milam (1 block north-east of Courthouse)

                                                                                (Check or exact change only)

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  All mail-in entries must have return postage in the form of stamps, a return mailing label, and a return mailing container with room for ribbons, if you win.

 

(7)           All black & white and digitally manipulated photos MUST BE entered in the corresponding category.

(8)           Each photograph must be the work of the person submitting that photograph.

(9)           The contest is open to amateur AND professional photographers.

(10)         Neither the East Texas Photography Club nor the Jasper/Lake Sam Rayburn Area Chamber of Commerce will accept responsibility for any lost or damaged photos; HOWEVER, the utmost care will be taken with all photos.

(11)         Judging will be based on originality, creativity, composition, quality and visual impact.  The

                Club has the right to move any photo to another category as they see fit.

(12)         A cash award of $25.00 and a ribbon will be awarded to the Best of Show.  Ribbons will be given in each category for 1^st, 2^nd,  3^rd and Honorable Mentions, and a Viewers Choice ribbon will also be awarded on Saturday, October 2, 2010.

(13)         Any photo may be entered that has not previously won a ribbon in the EAST TEXAS

                PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB Fall Fest Photo Contest.

 

For further information, contact:                 Melinda Ratcliff (409)382-3295

                                                                                Carolyn Chambliss (409)384-3167

                                                                                Sam Yeary (409) 384-8905

 

2010 Official Entry Form for the 26^th Annual Fall Fest

Photography Contest

(Sponsored by the East Texas Photography Club)

 

Adult Division

 

          Name: _____________________________________________

 

        Address: ____________________________________________

 

        City:  ______________ State:  _________ Zip:  ____________

 

        Phone:  _______________ (home) _________________ (other)

 

        E-Mail Address:  ______________________________________

 

 

PHOTO Categories

 

          □  Scenic/Landscape

        □  Animal/Wildlife

        □  Insects/Nature

        □  Flowers/Plants

        □  Sunsets/Sunrises

        □  People

        □  Black & White (Includes Sepia)

        □  Miscellaneous

□  Digitally Manipulated (any photo altered by adding to or deleting from the original photo)

 

 

 

Photo Title: ______________________________________________

 

 

 

Note:  This Official Entry form must be attached to the back of EACH photograph submitted.

 

 

 

**SEE OFFICIAL RULES ON PAGE 1

 

 

 

FORMS MAY BE DUPLICATED

 

JUNIOR DIVISION

(Ages 17 and under)

 

(1)           Photos must Not Be Smaller than 8x8 or larger than 8x12, and must be matted.  ONLY 11x14, BLACK or WHITE mats may be used.  NO OVAL or DECORATIVE MATS PLEASE! NO EXCEPTIONS.  If your mat or picture does not meet the requirements, it will not be included in the competition, but WILL be displayed on Saturday during the Festival. 

(2)           NO FRAMED photos will be accepted.

(3)           The contest is open to ages 17 and under.  There will be 2 age groups:

                Ages 4-12 years; and ages 13-17 years.

(4)           A $1.00 entry fee is required for EACH photo submitted.  Checks should be made payable to 

                EAST TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB.

(5)           The theme is “OPEN” (any subject).  Any photo may be entered that HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY won an award in any East Texas Photography Club Fall Fest Photo Contest.

(6)           A cash award of $15.00 will be awarded to the Best of Show and ribbons will be given for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and honorable mentions.

(7)           There is a limit of five (5) photos per contestant. 

(8)           Photos may be COLOR or BLACK & WHITE (includes Sepia).

(9)           Deadline for entries is 4:00 PM on Thursday, September 23, 2010.

(10)         Entries may be mailed or hand-delivered as follows:

                                By Mail:                                                                East Texas Photography Club

                                                                                                % Carolyn Chambliss

                                                                                                7324 US Hwy 191 W.

                                                                                                Jasper, TX  75951

 

                                Hand-delivered to:                              Jasper Chamber of Commerce

                                                                                                246 E. Milam (1 block northeast of                 the Courthouse)

                                                                                                (Check or exact change only)

               

(11)         All mail-in entries must have return postage in the form of stamps, a return mailing container and a mailing label.

(12)         An Official Entry Form must be attached to the back of each photo entered

                (Entry Form is below).

 

For further information, contact:                 Melinda Ratcliff (409)382-3295

                                                                                Carolyn Chambliss (409)384-3167

                                                                                Sam Yeary (409) 384-8905

 

 

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Official Entry Form - JUNIOR DIVISION

 

Name: ___________________________________________________Age:_________

 

Address: ______________________________________________________________              

 

Phone Number: ______________________________________

 

Email Address: _________________________________________________________

 

Description or title of Photo: _______________________________________________

 

 

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