Evening star., 1941-08-31
Snapshot Contest
Closes Tomorrow;
10 Am. DeadIine
Hord Task Faces JUDGES
With 1000 Pictures
Expected for Final

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The Stars Amateur Snapshot
Contest will close tomorrow Pic
lures must be in The Star Office by
10 am. in order to be considered.
Those placed in the mail must ar
rive at The Star before the dead
line.
A formidable task faces the judges
In selecting winners for the final
page. Several hundred photo
graphs, many of excellent quality,
have been received and prospects
last night we're that pictures from
which the judges will have to choose
ber about 1000
Have Strong Competition.
This is the usual situation in the
contest each year. Many fine pic
lures are received during the last
two or three weeks. which lose out
hv strong competition. If some of
the excellent work turned in late in
the contest had been entered earlier
in the season, it would have stood
a much better chance.
Winners pictures for the last
page will be published next Sunday,
September T. The winner of first
prize will receive SIS. as has been
the custom throughout the contest,
and each of the other pictures pub
hshed will bring So.
Later, the judges will select the
i941 Star prize winners, one for each
of the four classes: Babies and
children, young people and adults,
scenes and still life. and animal life,
Each of these four prize winners
will receive $25. They will be pub
lished Sunday, September IA.
Grand Prize Is S1,500.
The four Star prize pictures then
will be entered in the international
contest, to vie with pictures from
contests sponsored by newspapers
all over the Uniter States and part
of Canada The international eX-
hibit aud judging will take place at
the National Geographic Society
salon in the fall.
Three of the four Star 1940 win
hers also took prizes in the inter-
national contest last year, winning
$50 each. The grand international
prize is $1,000
Rules for the contest are as
follows:
l. The contest is strictly for anna
teurs. Any one is eligible except
employees Of The Star and their
families, and individuals or mem
bers of families engaged in the
manufacture, sale, commercial fln-
islling, or professional use OF photo
graphic goods.
2. Entrants may submit as many
pictures as desired at any time dur
ing the period of the contest. No
photogra phs will be returned, due to
the enormous task of handling, list
ing and sorting.
8. Pictures must have been made
after May 18, 1o4l, and may be sub
mitted at any time after that date.
Prizes will be awarded each week.
beginning June % and ending Sep
tember z.
T. Your snapshots may be made
on any type of film, but must not be
made on glass plate negatives. Any
make of camera, film. chemicals, or
paper may be used. Developing and
printing may be done by a photo
f1nisher or the entrant. No print or
enlargement more than 10 inches in
the longest dimension will be ac-
cepted. No art work or retouching
IS permitted on prints or the mega
tives from which they are made. No
composite pictures. such as multiple
printing or montages, permitted.
Pictures should not be mounted or
framed.
S. All pictures shall be judged IN
the national awards Gncluding the
United States and Canada) solely on
general interest and/or appeal. Pho
tographic excellence or technique.
while important, will not be the de-
Gliding factor in determining prize
winners. The decision of the judges
shall be accepted as final.
6. Each week The Star will pay
s5 for the best picture submitted
and 81 for each picture of special
merit that is printed and not award
ed a prize. In addition, at the close
of the contest, $25 will be paid to
the final winner in each of the four
classifications listed below. These
four winners then will be entered in
the national awards, where they will
compete with the same number Of
entries from other newspapers in
the United States and Canada, for
prizes totaling $4,000.
7. To enter the contest. mail a
print or prints of as many pictures
as you desire to Amateur Snapshot
Contest Editor" The Evening Star.
Washington. D. c. On the back of
each picture print your name and
address clearly in ink and the class
Ill which you wish the picture en-
tered. (See classifications)
8. No prints will be returned. Do
not submit negatives with your
prints. Keep them until requested
by the Amateur Snapshot Contest
Editor. (Only original negatives ac-
cepted) This newspaper assumes no
responsibility for negatives.
9. Before receiving the final prizes
of S25 in one or more of four
clasSiflcations. the entrant must sub
nit the original negative with print
and sign a statement that his pic
ture or closely similar picture Of
the same subject or situation has
not been and will not be entered by
him in any other snapshot contest
or salon other than the one con-
Quoted by this newspaper. and has
not and will not be offered for pub
1ication in any manner.
IMPORTANT: If you snap a pic
ture which you expect to enter in
the contest and in which a person
or persons appear, be sure you get
their names and addresses. This is
necessary because before your pic
ture can become eligible for entry in
the national awards the written
consent of such person or persons
to the use of the picture for adver-
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