Evening star., 1961-05-07
Star Snapshot
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The Stars 23d annual ANA
teur Snapshot Contest will
open two weeks from today,
offering Washington area cam
era fans opportunities to win
more than $1,000 with a single
picture.
This years contest will offer
more cash prizes than ever be-
fore-610 local and national
awards totaling $29,775. In
the national contest, in which
the grand-prize winners of
more than 80 local newspaper
contests will be entered, there
will be 502 prizes totaling $29,-
$50.
Four Glasses Listed
In both The Stars contest
and the Newspaper Snapshot
Awards Contest to be held
later, prizes will be awarded
for both color and black-and-
white photos. Color prints
and tranSparencies, or slides,
and black-and-white prints
may be entered in these four
classes:
(A) Babies and Children
One or more youngsters to be
judged for cutenesS, express
sion of character or mood.
Subjects may be engaged in
appropriate activities or in
terests. Adults may appear if
they are not the principal in
terest.
(B) Activities - Teen-agers
or adults. They may be en-
gagged in any activity outdoors
or indoors at any Season-oc-
cupations. hobbies, sports and
recreations: any picture that
tells a story of an interesting
phase of everyday life. Chill
may appear if they are not the
principal interest.
(C) SCENES and "Table-
TOps"-Pictures to be judged
for scenic or pictorial appeal
Landscapes, marine views,
street scenes, buildings, his
torical spots or unusual still
life" subjects, including table
top" or miniature arrange
ments.
ID Animal Life - House.
hold pets (cats. dogs, birds)
horses, farm animals, forest
wild life, zoo animals, etc.
How to Enter Contest
To enter the contest. you
may send as many prints or
transparencies as you wish at
as many different times as
you wish to the Snapshot
Editor of The Star, 225 Vir-
ginia avenue S. E., Washing
ton 3, D. C. On the back Of
each print or on the cardboard
mount of each transparency,
print your name and address
and the class in which you
wish the picture entered. Only
photos made since July l.,
1860, are eligible, and these
may be submitted to the Snap
shot Editor anytime between
May 81 and July 90.
Starting June /, The Stars
Judges each week will select
the best black and white print
and the best color print or
transparency in each of the
four classes. From the eight
pictures thus chosen each
week, four will be picked for
publication in SUNDAY. The
Star Magazine. For the best
photo reproduced each week.
a prize of SO will be awarded.
and for each Of the three
others a prize of IS. The four
other photos will be awarded
honorable mentions.
After the close of the con-
test on July 20, the 40 weekly
prize-winners and the 40
honorable mentions will be
reviewed by the judges. The
best color entry in each class
will be awarded a 500 saw
ings bond and the best black
and white entry in each class
a $25 bond. These eight local
grand-prize winners then will
be entered in the 23d annual
Newspaper Snapshot Awards,
to be judged this fall.
The complete rules Of the
contest will be published in
The Star next Sunday. Mean
while, get out your camera,
load it with film and start
shooting for your share of
those $40 cash prizes.
FIX - Ed C@ae~n