Deadline for MVSB Photo Contest is approaching

June 30, 2008 - PRLog -- Don’t miss your opportunity to participate in Meredith Village Savings Bank’s 2008 Photography Contest! All entries are due by the close of business on Friday, August 1, 2008.

This year, MVSB is taking its annual photo contest to the internet. In addition to submitting entries for MVSB’s 2009 Community Calendar, photographers can also vie for the chance to have their photos displayed on the bank’s website at http://www.mvsb.com.

As in past years, amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit photographs that capture the character and beauty of New Hampshire's Belknap, Carroll and Grafton counties as well as conveying some aspect of community/family life, such as community events, landmarks or seasonal pastimes. Photos featuring local landscape scenes are highly encouraged – especially for the website.

Winners of the calendar contest will have their photographs featured in the 2009 MVSB Community Calendar, to be distributed free-of-charge to the community, and photographers will be awarded a $50 U.S. EE Savings Bond for each photo that is included in the calendar. Winners of the website contest will have their photos featured as the homepage banner photo that appears on the homepage of the bank’s website.

Photographers may enter both the calendar and website contests but separate entries must be submitted for each contest. In addition, the required format for website entries is very different from the format for calendar submissions so please read the submission requirements for each type of entry very carefully.

Please include a cover sheet with each entry indicating the following:

Which contest the photo is being entered for – calendar or website
Your name, address, and phone number
A short description of the photograph.  

All entries are due by the close of business on Friday, August 1, 2008.

Calendar entries
Entries may be submitted at any MVSB office or via mail to “Meredith Village Savings Bank, attn: Marketing, P.O. Box 177, Meredith, NH  03253.” A maximum of five (5) entries may be submitted per photographer.

Entries may be in color or black and white. Participants should understand that photography will appear as black and white halftones on the calendar and one aspect of the selection process will reflect how well, in the judges’ opinion, photographs will appear in that format.  

Digital photography is preferred and must be a minimum of 300 dpi at 8” x 10” and saved in tiff, eps or jpg format. They must be submitted as prints, with disk. Slides or prints (35mm) are also acceptable formats. Prints must have a glossy (not matte) finish. Negatives must be available for all prints that are submitted.

Website entries
Only color photographs will be considered for inclusion on the website. Entries must be submitted as digital images on disk at a minimum resolution of 72 dpi (higher is preferred) at 968 pixels wide by 212 pixels high. Prints must also be submitted for judging and cataloguing purposes.

Full contest details are available at http://www.mvsb.com/photocontest .

Meredith Village Savings Bank has 11 offices located in central New Hampshire and is a member of the FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.