Contest rules for 2000 will be announced on this site in May 1999. You can also check the May/June 2000 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER magazine. The contest rules for 1999 were as follows:

WHO MAY ENTER: All readers of TRAVELER, except professional photographers and National Geographic Society employees and their families.

MEDIUM: Color prints or 35-mm color transparencies only. For color prints, the original color negative (or color transparency, if the print was made from a transparency) must be available so winners’ pictures can be published.

SPECIFICATIONS: 35-mm color transparencies must be mounted in standard cardboard or plastic slide mounts. Color prints may be any size up to 8x10 inches (approximately 20x25 centimeters). No glass mounts or framed photographs will be accepted.

ENTRIES: To qualify, photographs submitted must have been made in 1998 or 1999 and must not have been published. Entries should include a model release for any recognizable people, if feasible. You may enter up to four individual photographs. They may be all color transparencies, all color prints, or a mixture. An official entry form must accompany the entered photograph or photographs. Place your name and address on the frame of each color slide and on the back of each color print. To avoid damage, all entries should be packaged in cardboard for mailing. Mail entries to:

CLOSING DATE: Entries must be postmarked no later than August 15, 1999.

JUDGING: Entries will be judged on the basis of creativity, photographic quality, and effectiveness in expressing the contest theme. Winners will be published in the January/February 2000 issue of TRAVELER.

RESTRICTIONS: Some restrictions on travel apply. You must own all rights to any photographs entered in this contest. It is the responsibility of the contestant to ensure that publication of the photographs by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER raises no legal claims. Winners agree to allow the National Geographic Society to publish their photographs in print or electronic form in a future issue or issues of TRAVELER or related Society products and to use the pictures for advertising and promotional purposes without further payment.

PLEASE NOTE: If you want your pictures to be returned, you must include a self-addressed, stamped return envelope.

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY: While every effort will be made to return submissions in their original condition, the National Geographic Society will not be responsible for the loss of, or damage to, any submitted photographs.

GENERAL AGREEMENT: Submission of an entry to the contest automatically constitutes the contestant’s acceptance of all conditions set forth in the above rules. Entries not complying with the above rules will be disqualified.

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