Evening star., 1960-06-26
RULES OF STARS CONTEST
FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS

The Stars 1860 Amateur
Sna napshot Contest offers
Washington area photogra-
pliers an opportunity to
share In national and local
prizes totaling more than
$4,000.
Each Sunday during the
contest. SUNDAY, The Star
Magazine, will award a prize
of SIS for the snapshot judged
best in each of five classes.
At the close of the contest.
the best entry in each class
will be awarded a $100 Saw
ingS Bond and then will be
entered in the 22d annual
Newspaper Snapshot Awards.
In the national contest, there
will be seven Grand Prizes of
$1,000, seven Second Prizes
of $500, seven Third Prizes
of $3.50, more than 100 Spe-
cial Merit Awards of $50,
plus many Honor Awards of
$25-a total of $25,575 in
cash.
These rules must be OBJ
served:
/. The contest is strictly for
amateur photographers. Anyone Is
eligible excepting employees of The
Star, or employees of any other
newspaper participating in the
Newspaper Snapshot Awards. en-
% 3yfs of and the ndSdSss 7Rd Whd BEER
sonally. or any members of whose
families are engaged In the manu-
facture. sale. commercial finishing.
or professional use of Photographic
>. Pictures that have been made
after July /, 1859 are eligible
g. Black -and-white snapshots may
be made from any brand oil mega
tive type black-and-White film, but
not from color transparencieS. Color
transparencleS hay be made on any
brand of color film. Color prints may
ANY make Of camera may be used. No
print, enlargement or transparency
more than 10 inches in the longer
dimension will be accepted. No art
work or retouching is permitted on
prints or on the negatives from
parencies. No composite pictures,
such as multiple printing or mont
ages are eligible. Except for trans
parencies. which may be, in card
board mounts, pictures should not
be mounted or framed.
many prints or transparencies as
you desire, within the contest dates,
to Amateur Snapshot Contest Editor,
The Star, 225 Virginia avenue 5 L. T,
Washington 3, 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
entered CSee ClassesD Print the
same information on the cardboard
mount Of your color transparencieS.
5. No blaCk-andwhi or color
prints will be returned. Do not sub
NIT negatives with your prints. II
you include stamped, self addressed
envelope with your color, trans
parencies every effort will be made
TO return them, but safe return is
not guaranteed. Keep NEGATIVES OF
color or black and white prints until
Contest Editor. tOnly original mega
tives and transparencies accepted }
This newspaper and the sponsors OF
the Newspaper Snapshot Awards as
sumo no responsibility for negatives,
prints or transparencies.
g. At the close OF the contest, The
Star will award Grand Prizes to the
FIVE pictures lone in each clasS)
chosen by its Judges as the best en-
tered in its contest. These five win
ners then will be entered by this
newspaper IN the Newspaper shapshol
with entries from other participatin
newspapers for cash prizes totalins
minimum of S25,575. The Star
may elect also to enter two runners
UP in the Color class.
:. Al pictures shall be Judged in in
general interest and Lor appeal
Photographic quality, although i'm
portant. may not necessarily be the
deciding factor. The decision OF the
judges shall be accepted as final,
3. 1t is not permissible to enter
pictures in the contest of more thar
one newspaper participating IN the
Twenty-second Annual l960l News.
paper Snapshot Awards.
g. Before receiving The Stars
final prizes in one or more OF the f1vC
claSsifica tions. the entrant must sub.
mitVthe original negative with print
tunless he has submitted a transpar-
ency in the color class and sign a
statement that his picture. or any
closely similar picture of the same
subject or situation. has not been
and will not be entered by him in
any snapshot contest. exhibit. OF
salon where prizes are awarded
other than the one conducted by this
newspaper. and has not been and
will not be offered for publication in
any manner
IMPORTANT: II YOU snap a pic
ture which you expect to enter ~
the contest and in which per OF