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Picture This: Your Photos in Print

If you are familiar with Tech Transfer's publications, you know that we love to represent transportation in California with beautiful photography. Now we'd like to invite you to get in on the act. We are holding our first-annual Tech Transfer Photography Contest. Winning photograph(s) (along with your photo credit, of course) will be published in an upcoming Tech Transfer publication.

For this inaugural year, we are soliciting photographs on the theme of "Unique Perspectives." Transportation is so ubiquitous in our lives that elements of it make their way into our photos—whether for vacation, art, or documentation—all the time. They may be the background rather than the focal point, or may capture a unique angle on a structure or vehicle. We are looking for photos with some surface transportation element. The rest is up to you.

Photographs will be judged based on relevance to the theme, overall visual appeal, and technical quality (they must be sharp and well composed). Submissions will be reviewed by the Photo Selection Committee at Tech Transfer. If we select one of your photographs for publication, a member of the committee will notify you and provide publication details.

Rules:

• Limit five photographs from any single entrant.
• Every entrant must include a UC Regents release form (PDF, 60K) with their submissions. This form gives Tech Transfer permission to publish your entries in any of our publications.
• While we do not insist on photographs taken in California, we most often publish photographs that reflect life in our state. Therefore, please do not submit photos that feature transportation icons from outside California.

How to Submit Your Photograph:

Applicants shall submit the following by June 15, 2008:

1. An e-mail containing your name, address, phone number, and if desired, job title and employer. Also include a brief written description of the photograph(s) (100 words per photo), including location where it was taken and what the transportation element is.
2. Electronic files of publication-quality resolution: approximately 8-1/2 x 11 print size, minimum 300 DPI.
3. We can only accept tifs and jpegs (highest quality jpeg level needed).
4. Attach each photo in a separate email to: photocontest@techtransfer.berkeley.edu.
5. Download release form.
6. Fill in and sign form, scan and attach in an email to the above address or fax to 510.665.3433.

Questions? Call 510.665.3410.

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