Evening star., 1942-05-24

/. 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 fin
ishing or professional use OF photo
graphic goods.
2. An entrant may submit as
many pictures as he pleases and at
as many different times as he
pleases during the period Of the
contest No photographs will be re-
turned, due to the enormous task OF
handling, listing and sorting.
3. Pictures must have been made
after January /, 1912, and may be
submitted at any time after May ID,
1912. Prizes will be awarded each
week, beginning June 81 and ending
September 6.
4. Only those persons residing IN
the Washington retail trading area
shall be eligible to submit pictures
or win prizes. This area includes
the District of Columbia. Mont
gomery. Prince Georges and Charles
Counties, in Maryland, and Loudom,
Arlington, Prince william and Fair
fax Counties and the City Of Alex
andria in Virginia.
Any Camera Eligible.
s. Any make of camera and any
brand of film, chemicals or paper
may be used in making pictures for
the contest. An entrant need not
own the camera. The finishing may
be done by photo f1nisher or by the
entrant. Pictures may be made on
roll film. cut film or film pack mega
tives, but not on plate negatives.
Enlargements are eligible, but may
not exceed 10 inches the longest
dimension. Negatives may not be
retouched No art work may be done
on either negative or prints. No
composite pictures, multiple printing
or montages are permitted.
6. All pictures shall be judged in
the national awards solely on gen.
eral interest and/o appeal. Photo
graphic 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.
7. Each week The Star will pay S5
for the picture judged best and 81
for each picture of special merit that
is printed. In addition, at the close
of the contest, $25 will be paid to
the final winner in each of the five
classiications listed below. These
five winners then will be entered
in the national awards, where they
will compete with the same num-
Der of entries from other newspa-
pers in the United States and Can
ada for prizes totaling $l2,50O.
Mail in Pictures.
8. 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
in which you wish the picture en-
tered. (See classifications)
8. Do not submit negatives with
your prints. Keep them until re-
quested by The Star. (Only orig
inal unretouched negatives ac-
cepted. This newspaper assumes
no responsibility for negatives.
10. Before receiving final prize
of s25 in one or more of five CLASH
flcations the entrant must submit
the original negative with an addi-
tional print and sign a statement
that his picture or closely similar
picture of the same subject or sit
uation has not been and will not
be entered by him in any other
snapshot contest or salon other than
the one conducted by The Star and
has not and will not be offered for
publication in any manner.
IMPORTANT: If you snap . Pic