Photography Exhibit Coming April, 2007
Deede Miller
Mark your calendars!
In fact, start taking some shots around Anne Arundel County!!
The Anne Arundel Group of the Sierra Club's first Photograpy
Exhibit will be held at the Arundel Center in downtown
Annapolis
for the month of April 2007.
It is never too early to start taking pictures for such an
event.
The categories will include Landscape, Water (ice, snow and fog, too),
Maryland flora, Maryland native animals, Patterns, and Nature with
People, as seen in Anne Arundel county.
The contest will be open to everyone, and those who are not Sierra Club
members yet will be encouraged to join. We will have
outstanding judges
to award prizes of work selected to be in the show. There
will be a
festive reception at the Arundel Center when the show opens.
So
that you can get started working on your entries there is a synopsis of
rules listed below for the Photography Contest.
Click here to access a printable version of the
Sierra Club Photography
Contest Entry Form.
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Synopsis of rules for Sierra
Club Photography Contest:
ANNE ARUNDEL GROUP OF THE SIERRA CLUB
JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
The Sierra Club of Anne Arundel County is sponsoring this photography
exhibition to highlight the need to: “Explore,
enjoy and protect the
planet” especially as it relates to Anne Arundel
County. It is our hope that as you take photographs of environmental
issues you and the visitors to the exhibition who view your photographs
will better appreciate the need to protect and enhance the places and
animals where we live.
All images must be photographed in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Anyone may enter this contest, amateur or professional! Exhibit will be
at the Arundel Center in Annapolis, Maryland, for the entire month of
April, 2007 with an opening reception. Jurying will be by professional
photographers. Prizes will be awarded.
- Your photographs must be ready for hanging
(including hanging wire) in order to be juried. Framed and matted
photographs should be no larger than 20” X 24”,
including the frame.
- Color or black and white photographs are
acceptable.
- There is no restriction on when the photograph
was taken in order to be eligible for the show. However, it
must be taken in Anne Arundel County.
- These are the categories: Landscape (broad, expansive view)
- Water, ice or fog as the
subject
- Maryland Flora and/or Fauna
(native plants/animals) - Nature with
People (a nature scene with people involved)
- Patterns (an arrangement of
accidental or natural patterns in nature)
- Environmental situations or issues
(within Anne Arundel County).
- Entry fee $5. per photograph and you may enter
up to five photographs. Checks payable to Anne Arundel Group of the Sierra
Club. Checks or cash only, no charges.
- There will be an open jurying of the
photographs on Saturday, March 31 at 1:00 at Maryland Hall. Please
bring your matted and framed photographs along with this application
and your entry fees to the gym at Maryland Hall. The judges
will conduct an open jurying and critique for those who wish to
participate. Remember, you are responsible for picking up
your work after the critique if your piece has not been selected for
the show. There is no storage for work left at Maryland Hall.
- Bring the application form with you when you bring
your
photographs.
- Each submitted piece must have
photographer’s name, phone number, title of piece, price (if
for sale) on typed label on the back. Any pieces not deemed suitable
for hanging or without a clear label on the back cannot be considered
for the show.
- Approximately 50 prints will be selected from
the submissions for the exhibit and for the prizes awarded by the
judges. Judges will award monetary prizes for First Place, Second Place
and Third Place and will also select a number of Honorable Mentions
photographs.
- If a photograph sells because of exposure at
the exhibit, the Sierra Club kindly requests a commission of 25% of the
selling price. All fees collected from this exhibit benefit Sierra Club
environmental efforts.
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