Popular Photography & Imaging's
Shooting All The Time Day Sweepstakes
Official Rules and Terms & Conditions
Before you enter, please read these sweepstakes rules:
1. To enter, contestants must submit five photographs of any style, subject, or topic you wish. Entrants are not required to take a total of 225 photographs or take photographs on International Shooting All The Time Day.
2. Entries must be e-mailed to shooting@popphoto.com as RGB, JPEG files no larger than 500 by 500 pixels. Entries sent as prints, slides, CD/DVD or in other forms will not be accepted. Entries must include the entrant's name, address, and e-mail address.
All entries become the physical property of Popular Photography & Imaging and will not be returned.
3. To be eligible to enter, you must be 18 years of age or older. Employees of Sponsor, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., publisher of Popular Photography & Imaging magazine and popphoto.com and their immediate families are not eligible to enter or win.
4. A selection of qualifying entries will be posted on www.popphoto.com with the photographer's first name and hometown.
To be eligible to enter:
Entries must be submitted from noon January 21, 2007 and must be received by noon, Feb. 21, 2007.
5. A winner will be selected from all eligible entries in a random drawing to be held on or about March 1, 2007. The winner will receive a Pentax K100D Digital SLR, an 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL lens, a 50-200mm f/4-5.6 ED lens, and a SanDisk 4-gigabyte SD HC Ultra II memory card. The retail value of this Grand Prize is approximately $1,100.
6. By entering and/or accepting a prize, contestants release and agree to hold harmless Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc. and its directors, officers, employees, representatives and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind, including death, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize or participation in this sweepstakes.
7. By entering this contest, you represent that your photographs, are original and solely of your own creation, publication of the material will not violate the rights of any kind of any third party, and you have provided all necessary permissions and releases. You also represent that these photos are not obscene or offensive and that they do not violate community decency standards. Photos that are obscene, offensive or in violation of community decency standards, as determined by the staff of Popular Photography & Imaging magazine in its sole discretion, will not be eligible to enter or win.
8. By entering this sweepstakes, you agree to allow Popular Photography & Imaging to use your name, city and state, voice and images in connection with publication of your entry and for promotional purposes (except where prohibited), without review, notification, or approval. Winner may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, grant of rights, and a publicity and liability release within 10 days of notification, or prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner drawn at random.
9. By entering this sweepstakes, you agree to abide by the rules and to accept the judges' decisions as final. Submission of an entry and/or acceptance of a prize grants Sponsor, and third parties authorized by Sponsor, the exclusive, perpetual right to publish, use, edit, adapt, modify, excerpt and/or copy the entry for any and all purposes in any and all media currently in existence or hereafter developed without further compensation to you, which includes, but is not limited to the right to, the right to publish the entry in Popular Photography & Imaging magazine and on popphoto.com and to use your entry as we see fit in exhibitions and promotions of Popular Photography & Imaging magazine.
10. No substitution or transfer of prizes shall be allowed, except Sponsor may substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value. Income, and other taxes (if any), on the value of the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. A form 1099 will be filed with the IRS.
11. Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Sweepstakes if it is not capable of completion as planned due to, for example, infection by a computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort. In no event will Sponsor be responsible for any damages or losses arising out of access to and use of the web sites or the downloading from and or printing material downloaded from said site. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or misdirected entries.
12. The name of the winner will be posted on www.popphoto.com on or around the time of his/her selection. The winner's name will also be available upon request after Feb. 23, 2007. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Sponsor: Popular Photography & Imaging magazine -- Shooting All The Time Day Sweepstakes, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Residents of VT may omit postage.
13. The Sponsor of this Contest is: the Publisher of Popular Photography & Imaging magazine, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
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