Upload JPGs to www.contribute.kalmbach.com no later than June 1, 2018 and type “photo contest” in the “comments.” If we select your image as a finalist, you can then submit the high-resolution format. We do not accept mailed submissions.
Winners will be announced in the November 2018 issue.
Grand Prize
Winner will receive: Sigma 100-400mm lens
First Prize
Winner will receive: $500
Second Prize
Winner will receive: $250
Five Runners-Up
Winners will receive: a three-year subscription to Trains magazine
RULES
>> 1. Enter up to three (3) digital images to www.contribute.kalmbach.com, choose “Trains” as the publication, and label the submission “PHOTO CONTEST.”
>> 2. Contestants must include their name, address, a daytime phone number, email address, and basic caption information in the digital image’s metadata.
>> 3. All entries must be submitted by June 1, 2018.
>> 4. Winning photos will be published in Trains’ November 2018 issue.
>> 5. Trains reserves the right to retain electronic copies for future publication, use as a contest gallery exhibition on Trains magazine’s website, Facebook wall, Twitter feed, other social media, or for public exhibition. In all cases, the photographer retains the copyright to the image.
>> 6. Trains staff members will judge photos on a “blind” basis, meaning they will not know the identities of the entrants.
>> 7. Multiple prizes will not be awarded to any individual.
>> 8. Employees of Kalmbach Publishing Co. or their families are not eligible to enter.
>> 9. Sigma reserves the right to exchange a comparable lens for the prize listed above.
Are digital scans of print photos allowed? I have one that makes me think of Home.
Richard Jordan, there are no restrictions on when the photo was taken. Thanks for asking!
Paul Dolhy – He said Hunterspoint in Queens, not Hunts Point, which is in the Bronx. The picture is taken just east of the Hunters Point Av station on the 7 line.
That’s not hunts point in queens ,its Long Island City where it comes out of the tunnel from Manhattan heading to Queens boro plaza station road this 7 line many times . Hunts point is in the Bronx !
okay I am wrong I missed Hunterspoint the station , thought it was hunts point read it wrong very sorry .
Are there any restrictions on the dates the images were taken?