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This year, Tremont’s photo contest has one round, one theme, and
two ways to win. All photos must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST,
February 29, 2012.
The theme is The Beauty of the Smokies.
Tom Vadnais is our judge for the contest. He has been one of the instructors for both our Spring & Fall Adult Photography Weekend workshops since 2004. After the submission deadline, Tom will review the photos, then pick and critique the top 3. Read more about our judge here.
We will also post the entered photos on Tremont’s Facebook page for all the world to see. Find a favorite? “Like” the photo, and that’s your vote! When voting closes, the photo with the most “likes” will be named our Facebook Favorite. Voting on Facebook begins at 8:30 AM on March 1, 2012 and ends at 8:30 AM on March 9, 2012.
Winners will be announced on March 15, 2012 here, on our web site, and on our Facebook page. Winning photos will also be featured in the spring annual report edition of Walker Valley Reflections newsletter.
Prizes
- 1st Prize - free admission to a Tremont program of your choice (value up to $500)
- 2nd Prize - half price admission to Tremont program (value up to $250)
- 3rd Prize - $100 towards a Tremont program
- Facebook Favorite - Tremont Store Goody Bag
How to Submit Your Photo
- Online Entry Form (preferred)
- Email to heather@gsmit.org including a copy of the PDF entry form.
- Standard Mail or Drop Off in Person at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 9275 Tremont Rd., Townsend, TN 37804 including PDF entry form.
Rules for Entry (download rules)
- Photos must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST, February 29, 2012.
- Maximum of five (5) submissions per person.
- Each entry must be accompanied by a separate entry form.
- Tremont staff, adjunct faculty, and presenters are not eligible.
- Amateur photographers only.
- Any post-processing (using Photoshop or a similar program) is allowed, but overprocessed is worse than unprocessed. Don’t make it look “Photoshopped”.
- Online entry form submissions are preferred, but email, standard mail or drop-offs are accepted. Hard copies need to be 8x10 or 8x12.
- If you’d like your photos returned, you must include a self-addressed stamped envelope, with appropriate postage.
- Photos must be taken inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- Entrants must allow photos to be used by GSMIT in future paper and web publications; credit will be given to the photographer.
- Prizes must be used before December 31st, 2013.
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes can be used by entrant, or transferred to a person of their choice. If value of program attended exceeds amount of prize, attendee is responsible for the remaining balance.
This Year's Judge - Tom Vadnais
Tom Vadnais has been shooting strictly digital since November 2001. Although he takes many pictures in his day job as a consulting automotive engineer, his personal work consists primarily of landscape and nature photographs. Tom has taken numerous photographic, Photoshop, and printing workshops with such luminaries as Will Clay, the late Galen Rowell, Bruce Dale, John Shaw, Jack Dykinga, Thom Hogan, Charlie Waite, Michael Reichmann, Joseph Holmes, Moose Peterson, Vincent Versace, and John Paul Caponigro. He enjoys the entire process from composition and exposure in the field, through image preparation and printing once back home.
Visit Tom's Web site here or sign up for one of our photography workshops to learn more from him.
2011 Photo Contest Winners
1st Prize - A Smoky Mountain Sunset by Stacie Bullard
2nd Prize - Tree in Fog by Rosemary Williams
3rd Prize - Birth of a Fern by Nancy Hickey
