Photo Contest, Essex National Heritage Area, Massachusetts

Essex Heritage Photo Contest

2010 Photo Contest Forms:
1. Rules & Regulations
2. Entry Form
3. Model Release Form

Photographers get Snapping!

We are pleased to announce the 2010 Essex Heritage Photo Contest! All photographers are welcome to submit images to the Essex Heritage Photo Contest that capture the essence of the Essex National Heritage Area or speak to Essex Heritage's role in preserving the historic, cultural and natural treasures of Essex County. All photographs must be taken within the Essex National Heritage Area and represent one of the four Contest Categories listed below. Read the complete Rules & Regulations then send in an entry form to win!

PHOTO CONTEST FORMS:

PHOTO CONTEST CATEGORIES:

Contest Category

Criteria

People

People make places special, and special places matter to people for different reasons. Photographs submitted to this category must be of people engaging with their Heritage Area.

Essex Heritage Events

Trails & Sails, Photo Safaris, Explorers, Friendship Sails! Photographs submitted to this category must have been taken during an Essex Heritage event and represent the spirit of the event. Check the calendar at EssexHeritage.org!

Essex Heritage
Scenic Byway

The Essex Heritage Scenic Byway is a federally-designated 64-mile scenic shoreline route traversing 13 coastal communities: Lynn, Swampscott, Marblehead, Salem, Beverly, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Gloucester, Essex, Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury, & Newburyport. Photographs submitted to this category must have been taken in a Scenic Byway community and represent the best of what the Scenic Byway and ENHA has to offer: dramatic coastlines, historic seaports, colonial era farms, small village centers, and a wealth of architectural details ranging from First Period dwellings to the original shoe workshops, beam rooms and textile cottages of our Industrial History. To read more about the Essex Heritage Scenic Byway visit: EssexHeritage.org/scenicbyways/index.shtml

Four Seasons

Photographs submitted to this category should represent one of the four seasons we experience in the region. When shooting or selecting images to submit for the contest, please consider the Essex National Heritage Area’s role in preserving and promoting the rocky coasts & harbors, farms & forests, historic districts & urban landscapes and rivers & marshes of Essex County.

Prizes: Packages to be announced. 13 prizes will be awarded to 13 individual photographers:

Grand Prize (Best of Show)

First Prize (Each Category)

Second Prize (Each Category)

Third Prize (Each Category)

2009 Prize Packages awarded were: Grand Prize recieved Digital SLR camera outfit; First Prize (in each category) recieved Digital Point & Shoot camera outfit; Second Prize (in each category) recieved Hunt's Photo & Video $100 Gift Certificate; Third Prize (in each category) recieved America the Beautiful: National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass.

2009 photo contest results

Salem Maritime, The Crane Estate, Glen Magna, Halibut Point State Park . . . photographers searched out the best and most beautiful locations for their award-winning submissions for the 2009 Essex Heritage Photo Contest.

Prizes for the Essex Heritage Photo Contest were generously contributed by Hunt's Photo & Video and the National Park Service. The 13 contest winners will be exhibited at the National Park Service Salem Regional Visitor Center (2 New Liberty Street, Salem, MA) for one year starting on December 10, 2009.

All photographs were taken in the Essex National Heritage Area and represent one of four categories: "On a Photo Safari," "National Historic Landmarks," "My Space," or "General Images of Essex National Heritage Area”.