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Third Annual

Photography Scholarship Contest

For Orange County High School Students

  Prizes  

One (1) Grand Prize of a $500 Scholarship
One (1) 2nd Prize of a $250 Scholarship
One (1) 3rd Prize of a $100 Scholarship

Surterre Properties®—a top real estate brokerage in Southern California with clients in Orange County and all over the world—is offering Orange County High School students an exclusive opportunity to earn cash for college through our 3rd annual OC High School Photography Scholarship Contest.

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  Deadline 

Photographs must be taken between September 1, 2016 and April 30, 2017 and contest entries are accepted now through May 15, 2017.

 

  How To Submit 

  • Only submit photos you yourself have taken.

  • Submit photos in JPEG format, try to ensure that the photo is at least 10 megabytes, with a 300 DPI resolution, as the winning photos must work in print, with pixels of 3600 x 5400 or 5400 x 3600.

  • Photographs may be in color (CMYK).

  • Images may be digitally altered after they were taken only if using standard optimizing techniques (such as cropping or other procedures that can also be done in a darkroom) or if creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) images; modified images must not be manipulated beyond the reality that existed when the photograph was taken.

  • Photos depicting artistic special effects cannot be included in this contest. Instagram and other similar filters add artistic effects to photos and are therefore not eligible.

  • Photographs submitted must be “natural” and the original work and exclusive property of the photographer.

  • A maximum of three photos per entrant may be submitted. Please do not submit more than three different images. Additional entries received from any individual beyond the three will be void.

  How Photos Are Judged 

Photos MUST be of nature and will be judged on the following criteria: originality, artistic composition, technical quality, and photographic technique

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  DOs & DON'Ts   

What to Do:

  •  Enjoy your experience and share it with us.

What Not to Do:

  • Do not alter or manipulate photos except for cropping and adjustment of contrast and brightness. Photos depicting artistic special effects cannot be included in this contest. Instagram and other similar filters add artistic effects to photos and are therefore not elgible.

  • Do not break any laws or rules of federal lands.

  • Do not do anything unsafe.

  • Do not photograph anything that is inappropriate, indecent, or obscene.

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The Released Parties are not responsible or liable for: (a) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, non-authorized human intervention, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Contest; (b) technical failures of any kind including, but not limited to, malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines, network hardware or software, cable, satellite, cellular tower, or Internet service provider; (c) bugs, viruses, worms, unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or this Contest or any other causes which impair the fairness, integrity or administration of this Contest (in such event, the Sponsors reserve the right, at their sole option, to modify, terminate or suspend this Contest); (d) typographical, printing, network, mechanical, electronic, technical, human or other errors or malfunctions of any kind relating to or in connection with this Contest including, without limitation, errors or problems which may occur in the administration of this Contest, the processing of entries, the announcement of the prizes or other errors in these Official Rules or in any other Contest-related materials; (e) any liability, loss, injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in this Contest or receipt, use or misuse of any prize; or- (f) lost, incomplete, late, misdirected, garbled, undelivered, incomplete, stolen, or mutilated transactions, subscriptions or entries; or garbled, lost, misrouted or scrambled transmissions. (If for any reason an entrant’s entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in this Contest.)

The parties (parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor in his/her state of residence) agree, acknowledge and understand that the sponsors shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or lost profit damages. The parties (parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor in his/her state of residence) agree, acknowledge and understand that the sponsors’ total aggregate liability for any matter arising from or related to this contest, whether in contract, tort, or under any theory of liability, shall not exceed the amount of the actual out-of-pocket costs incurred by entrant associated with entering this contest.

By entering into this Contest, each entrant (parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor in his/her state of residence) agrees to release, discharge, and forever hold harmless the Released Parties and their shareholders from any and all claims, actions, damages, demands, manner of actions, causes of action, suits, debts, duties, accounts, bonds, covenants, warranties, indemnities, claims over, contracts and liabilities of whatever nature or kind arising out of, or in connection with, the entrant’s participation or attempted participation in this Contest, compliance or non-compliance with these Official Rules and the delivery, non-delivery, acceptance, use, misuse or non-use of the prize and, if selected as a potential winner, to sign and deliver the Request for Information and Waiver form or Affidavit before receiving his/her prize. Each entrant (parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor in his/her state of residence) acknowledges that the Sponsors shall not be required under any circumstances to award more prizes than the number of available prizes as set out in these Official Rules.

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