WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -
May 5, 2023 -
PRLog -- (West Palm Beach, FL – May 3, 2023)
Rochelle Wolberg, Curator/Director of
Mounts Botanical Garden, today announced that Palm Beach County's oldest and largest botanical is now hosting its 16
th annual Photo Contest. Nonprofessional photographers are invited to enter pictures taken at Mounts on or before May 31, 2023. There is a $10 entry fee per submitted photograph.
This year's entry categories include Animal Life, Insect Close-up, Botanical Close-up, Garden Sculptures, and Scenic Landscape.
The
Best in Show winner will receive a one-year Garden Lover Membership (value $250), and a $75 Mounts Gift Certificate.
First Place winners in all five categories will receive a one-year Family & Friends Membership (value $75) and a $75 Mounts Gift Certificate.
Second Place winners will receive a $25 Mounts Gift Certificate, and
Third Place winners will each get one worth $15.
Mounts Photo Contest – Rules - The contest is open to nonprofessional photographers. For this contest, a professional photographer is defined as anyone who derives income from photography or anyone who has marketed work in the past, who is presently marketing work, or who has copyrighted images with the intent to market them.
- Entries will be accepted May 1-31, 2023. Winners will be announced in June.
- Entrants are invited to submit up to five images in any combination of our categories.
- Photos must be captured at Mounts Botanical Garden between June 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023.
- Entry fee is $10 per photograph, with a maximum of five photographs per individual photographer.
- The entrant must have personally taken the photo(s) and have all rights to distribution and use.
- Resolution: Photos must be high resolution. (For example, 3024 x 3024 pixels for a square image; 4032 x 3024 for a horizontal image; actual size depends on your camera's settings).
- File type: jpg.
- Photo file name: Must include your last name and category. (Example: Smith-plantlife.jpg; Smith-naturecloseup.jpg)
- Standard optimization techniques, such as cropping, minor color and contrast adjustments, saturation, and sharpening, are allowed. However, other optimizing techniques such as combinations of images and compositional changes are not permitted and will be disqualified.
- All images submitted to the contest become property of Mounts Botanical Garden for use in social media and for other promotional purposes, with photo credit to the photographer.
Attached Jpeg:
Mounts Photo Contest 2022 – Best in Show by Susan Finn
Available for Interview:
+ Rochelle Wolberg, Curator-Director
Mounts Botanical Garden
561.233.1730 / rwolberg@pbcgov.org
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Gary Schweikhart, PR-BS, Inc.
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