Show off your modeling and photography skills, and you could win up to $750 in Model Railroader magazine’s photo contest! You don’t have to be a professional to win, just have an eye for images that capture the action and creativity of model railroading. The contest deadline is Oct. 30, 2009, so don’t procrastinate!
First Prize: $750 • Second Prize: $500 • Third Prize: $250 • 5 Honorable mentions: $100 each
Rules:
1a. For digital photography, send a digital file saved in RAW, TIFF, or JPEG format on a CD or DVD plus a color print of your photo. Prints from desktop computer printers are acceptable. Label your disk and your print. Digital photos must be taken with a 4 megapixel camera or better. We will not accept e-mail submissions.
1b. For film photography, send a color transparency, 35 mm or larger, or any glossy color or black-and-white print 5 x 7 inches or larger.
2. The photo must feature a model railroad scene and be taken by the contestant. Each contestant is limited to three entries.
3. Each entry must include a description of the photo. Include the name of the person who did the model work, the scale, the brand names of any equipment shown, and any special modeling techniques used. Also include a brief description of your photography techniques, including any digital enhancements, and the camera and settings used.
4. Digital enhancement of photos is acceptable. However, over-enhancement of images – such as an abundance of digital smoke or the digital insertion of real-life objects into the photo – may diminish your chances of winning.
5. All entries must be received in our office by Oct. 30, 2009. Non-winning entries will be returned only if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is provided.
6. Published photos become the property of Model Railroader magazine. Model Railroader reserves the right to retain any entry for possible future publication in our Trackside Photos department or another part of the magazine at normal payment rates.
7. Judging will be conducted by the Model Railroader staff, which reserves the right to not award all prizes. Winning entries will be published in the April 2010 issue. Kalmbach Publishing Co. employees and their families are not eligible to enter.
Mail entries to:
Model Railroader magazine photo contest
P.O. Box 1612
Waukesha, WI 53187-1612
Entry deadline: October 30, 2009
I'm there, dude.
Just sent my photos from the Cincinnati and Southern run with my Cinci Central(Hertiage) fleet….First class mail; should be there soon! Thanks again gang!
I really do like this year's contest is more open ended on media. I will be submitting an entry soon! Thanks gang for 75 years of great Model Railroading coverage!
Wish I could enter this year, but I am too young and my railroad is not finished. But I encourage those that can to give it a shot!
Still wet behind the ears on this model railroading thing. Just finishing bench work for me and my son's first layout.
Love the magazine. Looking forward to seeing some of the entries for this contest and looking forward to entering future ones myself.
Will attempt to get the right pic to you in time !? Africa Time !!
It is wonderfull!
I wish I could enter, but my dad and I have to work on scenecing the layout and finishing structures. Someday, I'll be able to enter, right now I'm only 13. When I'm older, I hope to submit photos of my freelanced railway I plan to build named the Virginian and Atlantic railway which will be set in Virginia/West Virginia in the summer of 1968.
I'm also getting my ears wet about model railroading. I'm constructing my own layout (4 x 8) based on the World's Greatest Hobby Track Plan, but adding my own spin to it, as a tribute to Michigan Railroading. I'm trying to depict a fall scene in Northern Michigan, and also trying to depict a fir, evergreen, and hopefully pine, forest on a big 6-inch hill. Between that and my 2-inch hill between my mainline and my spur going into my lumber company, there is a chute in which the trains run through, and it is fun to watch. The town is called Springfield (and yes, there is a Springfield, Michigan, of which I didn't know about until recently, just outside Battle Creek – not northern Michigan, but close enough). I cannot wait to have this layout done so I can share it with everyone. I won't be entering this year, but would eventually like to do so, and also do an article for Model Railroader.