Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08
SNAPSHOT
CONTEST
RULES.
The Stars 1862 Amateur

The Stars 1852 Amateur
Snapshot Contest offers
Washington area camera
fans an opportunity to share
in local and national prizes
totaling $30,720.
Each week The Stars
judges select the best entries
in each Of the four classes
(see below in both color and
black and white. Starting
next Sunday and continuing
through September Is, the
best entry in each class will
be reproduced in SUNDAY,
The Star Magazine. The four
pictures published will be
awarded prizes of SIS each,
and the four others honor
able mentions worth So each.
All eight photographers will
also receive certificates.
Grand prizes in The Stars
contest will be a 500 Savings
Bond for the best color entry
and the same amount in
black-and-white; $50 bonds
as second prizes, and $25
bonds for the runners-up. All
eight grand-prize winners
will be entered in the News
paper National Snapshot
Awards.
In the National Awards,
there will be $50 cash prizes.
For biack-and-white, there
will be four $1,000 grand
prizes Zone in each class four
$500 second prizes, four $3.50
third prizes, "a Special Merit
Awards Of $50 and 225 Hon
or Awards Of $25. For color,
the list Of prizes is the same,
except that there will be only
159 Honor Awards.
Here is a condensation of
the rules:
1. The contest is strictly for anna
teur photographers residing in the
Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Frederick,
Howard, Montgomery, Prince Georges
and ST. Marys Counties in Mary
land; Arlington, Culpeper, Fairfax.
Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William
Stafford. Warren and Westmoreland
Counties in virginia and jefferson
County in West Virginia.
Q. Pictures taken after July /,
1861, are eligible.
8. Snapshots may be taken with
any make Of camera. on any brand
Of film. No artwork or retouching is
permitted on negatives or prints
no composite pictures, multiple ex-
posureS or multiple printing.
4. You may enter as many pictures
as you wish before the close of the
contest, July IS. Your name, ad-
uIeSS ana the CldSS III WHICH tllC piC-
ture should be entered must be writ
ten clearly, in ink. on the back of
each picture. NAH prints to the
Snapshot Contest Editor, The Sunday
Star, Washington 3, D. c.
o. No black-and- white pictures will
be returned, Contestants must be
able to furnish the original negative
If and when requested by the Con-
test Editor The sponsors assume no
responsibility for negatives, trans
parencies, or prints.
g. Contestants are permitted to sub
participating in the Newspaper Ma
tional Snapshot Awards.
Z. To be eligible for a local Grand
Prize, a contestant must sign a state
ment that the picture, or another
closely similar picture Of the same
subject or situation has not. and will
not be entered by him in any other
contest, and will not be offered for
publication.
8. IMPORTANT: In order for your
tional Judging, you must be able to
obtain the written consent of any
l.. recognizable persons appearing in
your picture to permit the use Of the
picture for advertising purposes, etc.
You will be informed by the news
paper II your picture comes under
this ruling.
Please read carefully Numbers I,
will be mailed on receipt Of stamped,
addressed envelope.
CLASSES
A. Babies and Children; B. Aetiv-
tiles; C. Scenes and Tabletop;
D. Animal Life.