ADULT

PORTRAITS

• 1st Place — $250 cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear Images
• 2nd Place — $200 cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art
• 3rd Place — $100 Cash, One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Center

VIEWS BEYOND THE BAY AREA

• 1st Place — $250 cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear Images
• 2nd Place — $200 cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art
• 3rd Place — $100 Cash, One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Center

BAY AREA IMAGES

• 1st Place — $250 cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear Images
• 2nd Place — $200 cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art
• 3rd Place — $100 Cash, One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Center

YOUTH

PORTRAITS

• 1st Place — $100 cash
• 2nd Place Adult — $50 Gift Certificate to University Art
• 3rd Place Adult — $25 Gift Certificate to University Art
  

VIEWS BEYOND THE BAY AREA

• 1st Place — $100 cash
• 2nd Place Adult — $50 Gift Certificate to University Art
• 3rd Place Adult — $25 Gift Certificate to University Art
  

BAY AREA IMAGES

• 1st Place — $100 cash
• 2nd Place Adult — $50 Gift Certificate to University Art
• 3rd Place Adult — $25 Gift Certificate to University Art

CONTEST RULES

1. The contest is open to anyone who lives, works or attends school full time in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Woodside, Atherton, Stanford, Portola Valley, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and East Palo Alto. Palo Alto Weekly employees, sponsors and their employees, relatives and freelancers are not eligible.

2. $20 entry fee per submission. Youth entry fee is $10 (17 years and under). Limit of one entry per category. Previous winning photos from this contest not eligible. Photo must have been taken within the past 5 years. Checks payable to Palo Alto Weekly.

3. Photographs must be submitted in digital format, no print submissions will be accepted. Scans of non-digital photographs will be accepted. All entries must be saved as RGB files, saved at a dimension of at least 1,600 pixels wide (if the entry is horizontal) or 1,600 pixels tall (if it is vertical) saved at the maximum quality. Each photo file must not exceed 2MB in size and must be in JPEG format.

4. Photo submissions may be submitted via email or a CD. Please see further instructions below.

Entry submission implies agreement of statement below. This photograph is my original work and was taken in the past 5 years. I understand that the Palo Alto Weekly reserves first publishing and online rights to winning entries and those chosen for exhibition. Judges will use their discretion as to whether an image needs to be recatagorized. Judges decisions are final.

ENTRY GUIDELINES

Please read carefully. No printed photo submissions allowed.

Submit photo as an EMAIL ATTACHMENT to: photocontest@paweekly.com

• Please submit ONE EMAIL per photo
• Subject line of the email must include applicant’s name and category
• FILE NAME of the photo must include the applicant’s name, age category and photo category.
Examples: Veronica Weber – Adult - Bay Area Images.jpg OR Weber, Veronica – Youth - Portraits.jpg
• Entry Form must be printed, filled out and mailed with check.
• PAYMENT: Make check payable to Palo Alto Weekly and include APPLICANT’s name on the check. Mail to: 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto CA 94306 • DEADLINE: Must be emailed by 4/08/11

OR

Submit photo on a CD, MAILED OR DELIVERED to the Palo Alto Weekly, with check and entry form included.

• FILE NAME of the photo must include the applicant’s name, age category and photo category.
Examples: Veronica Weber – Adult - Bay Area Images.jpg OR Weber, Veronica – Youth - Portraits.jpg
• ENTRY FORM must be completed and submitted with the CD
• PAYMENT: Make check payable to Palo Alto Weekly and include APPLICANT’s name on the check
• DELIVERY: Mail package to or drop off at 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto CA 94306
• DEADLINE: Must be postmarked by 4/08/11

Veronica Weber
Veronica Weber, a Los Angeles native, first began working at the Palo Alto Weekly in 2006 as a photography intern. Following the internship, she was a photographer for The Almanac in Menlo Park. She is currently the Weekly staff photographer responsible for covering daily assignments and producing video and multimedia projects for PaloAltoOnline.com. She has a BA in Journalism from San Francisco State University and currently resides in San Francisco.

Angela Buenning Filo
Angela Buenning Filo, a Palo Alto resident, photographs changing landscapes, most recently focusing on Silicon Valley and Bangalore, India, during their respective tech booms. Her photographs are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and were included in the book ”Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl.” Her installation titled ”1,737 Trees,” focusing on one of the last orchards in Silicon Valley, is on permanent display in the lobby of the San Jose City Hall. Photographs from her Silicon Valley and Bangalore series are on view in the new terminal of the San Jose airport.

David Hibbard
David Hibbard, a Menlo Park resident, has photographed natural landscapes and wild places most of his life. He is the author of ”Natural Gestures,” a book of images from the beaches and coastal forests of northern California. A major retrospective of his work was shown last year at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. Website: www.davidhibbardphotography.com.

Brigitte Carnochan
Brigitte Carnochan‘s photographs have been exhibited at galleries and museums nationally and internationally and has recently been featured on the covers of Lenswork, Camera Arts and Silvershotz and in Color, View Camera, Black and White UK, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Zoom magazines. Brigitte‘s newest series, Floating World: Allusions to Poems by Japanese Women from the 7th to 20th Centuries, will be on view at Modernbook Gallery at their new location at 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, until February 26.

Past Winners

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