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Little Green Places Photo-Video-Art Contest
Have you noticed a special spot for birds, providing shelter, food, or water? It could be an ivy-covered wall, flowers next to a stoop, a window box, your school garden, or potted plants by a library entryway.

People of all ages are invited to enter our photo-video-art contest.

How to enter

1. Email your photo, art, or video entry to urbanbirds@cornell.
edu. Links are acceptable for videos.
2. Write “Little Green Places Photo Contest.”
3. Include your name and mailing address.
4. Tell us where your Little Green Place is (city, state or
province).
5. Tell us why it’s a good Little Green Place for birds.
6. Send us your entry before October 31, 2008.

Selected images will be posted on the Celebrate Urban Birds
website. By entering, you agree that you are granting the Cornell
Lab of Ornithology a royalty-free, perpetual license to use the
images for any purpose, including but not limited to publications,
websites, and commercial products benefiting our education,
outreach, and research programs.

Visit http://www.CelebrateUrbanBirds.org for details.

Prizes include a $100 gift certificate from Johnny’s Selected
Seeds, bird sound recordings, The Audubon Society Guide
to Attracting Birds book by Stephen W. Kress, On Meadowview
Street book by Henry Cole, and much more.
Little Green Places
Photo-Video-Art Contest
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A friend sent me this link, its for the first annual 2009 News 10NBC Pinpoint Weather Calendar

"Send us your photos of kids, teens, young and older adults being active in all types of weather. Whether it’s hiking, swimming, skiing, playing organized sports, fishing or walking the dog, we want to show how people are outside enjoying Rochester weather!
The deadline for submissions is October 12, so don’t delay. You can send us up to 12 of your best photos using the highest resolution jpegs , not to exceed a file size of 3MB! Photos will be chosen by employees of WHEC-TV on or around October 24 and posted on our website and published in the calendar."


http://www.whec.com/article/11144//
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Not really a contest but a juried show some of you might enjoy.
http://www.imagecityphotographygallery. ... /Call4.htm
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I just entered a couple photos in the Nature's Colors contest held by Outdoor Photographer. Heres the link to the gallery with my photos...
http://www2.outdoorphotographer.com/col ... p?page=161

You can enter three photos here...
http://www2.outdoorphotographer.com/col ... ryform.php
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nice shots Chris...good luck
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
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Cool. I signed up to be alerted when voting begins.
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chris270 wrote:I just entered a couple photos in the Nature's Colors contest held by Outdoor Photographer. Heres the link to the gallery with my photos...
http://www2.outdoorphotographer.com/col ... p?page=161

You can enter three photos here...
http://www2.outdoorphotographer.com/col ... ryform.php
Only a couple more days to enter...
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Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park Winter Photo Contest

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Starts Jan. 10
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