Photo contest
Help SCC by tapping into your creative side and showing off your best images! Enter the SCC Photo Contest today!
Grab your bike, get your friends, and go shoot some photos! Enter your images to see your work featured on SCC's website and social media platforms. You do not have to be a professional to enter. Wireless phone, point and shoot, and professional level SLR photos are all welcome. Choose your best work, upload, and compete for the opportunity to win some cool prizes! All entries may be used for SCC content, so get your wheels rolling and your camera snapping and share what you've captured!
Grab your bike, get your friends, and go shoot some photos! Enter your images to see your work featured on SCC's website and social media platforms. You do not have to be a professional to enter. Wireless phone, point and shoot, and professional level SLR photos are all welcome. Choose your best work, upload, and compete for the opportunity to win some cool prizes! All entries may be used for SCC content, so get your wheels rolling and your camera snapping and share what you've captured!
Winning entries will be presented at a special event hosted by Queen Bee Coffee. Photos will be showcased on display following the event.
Winner's Event: June 22, 2019 | 4:00pm
Deadline for Entry: Midnight, May 13, 2019
Contest Themes:
Bicycle Spotlight
Bicycle as the main feature of interest in the image |
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Cycling Action
Riders featured in action |
Creative Context
Bicycle or parts presented in abstract or in an artistic fashion |
Nature
Bicycle placed in nature with elements of interest |
Candid and Group
Individual or group SCC members in cycling attire |
Travel
Bicycle next to sign or landmark illustrating that the rider has ridden or visited outside the SCC local area |
Open Theme
Have something that doesn't really fall into these categories? Enter it into the open theme. |
Criteria and Guidelines for Entry:
Note: This contest is a call for user generated content. The purpose is to collect visual content for SCC marketing, promotional, and display purposes. By entering, you grant permission for SCC to use your photo. Submissions may be featured on the SCC website, social media, email, and other platforms. For this purpose, images may be digitally altered (resized, cropped, lighting/color changed, text overlays, etc.). Please contact Kristen Girts for further information on how your photo will be used or if you have any special requests for how your photo will be used.
Note: This contest is a call for user generated content. The purpose is to collect visual content for SCC marketing, promotional, and display purposes. By entering, you grant permission for SCC to use your photo. Submissions may be featured on the SCC website, social media, email, and other platforms. For this purpose, images may be digitally altered (resized, cropped, lighting/color changed, text overlays, etc.). Please contact Kristen Girts for further information on how your photo will be used or if you have any special requests for how your photo will be used.
- You do not have to be an SCC member to enter or win.
- Amateur photos welcome. Must be your original work and not copyrighted.
- Photos must include a bicycle in its entirety or a portion of a bicycle, with the exception of the Candid and Group theme.
- Any type of human-powered bicycle may be represented in the photo.
- Both black and white and color photos may be entered.
- Multiple entries welcome. (Chose the best composition! Please refrain from entering different angles or frames of the same content, unless doing so provides a very different visual appeal.)
- A single photo may be entered into more than one theme.
- Parental consent required for photos including anyone under the age of 18.
- Photos containing nudity, obscenities, or any other inappropriate content as deemed by the judge(s) will be rejected.
How to Enter:
For each entry:
1. Select the theme for which you would like to submit your photo.
2. Click the theme image above to be taken to a Dropbox upload page.
3. Upload your photo, complete your information, and you're entered!
For each entry:
1. Select the theme for which you would like to submit your photo.
2. Click the theme image above to be taken to a Dropbox upload page.
3. Upload your photo, complete your information, and you're entered!
Judging:
Please don't let any criteria intimidate you. All entries may be used for SCC content regardless of whether or not it is a selected winner. Enter your photo!!
Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
Winner Prizes:
Prizes are being generously provided by Atlanta Trek.
One Best in Show winner will be selected. Best in Show winner will receive a free jersey and bottom.
Theme winners will receive a gift basket with lots of cool product and swag.
Don't forget that many of the entries will be featured on the SCC website and social media pages. This is a prize as well!
Please don't let any criteria intimidate you. All entries may be used for SCC content regardless of whether or not it is a selected winner. Enter your photo!!
Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
- Quality and basic technique
- Special technique
- Composition and structure
- Lighting
- Subject and interest
- Artistic appeal and originality
- Image Content - Story and mood
Winner Prizes:
Prizes are being generously provided by Atlanta Trek.
One Best in Show winner will be selected. Best in Show winner will receive a free jersey and bottom.
Theme winners will receive a gift basket with lots of cool product and swag.
Don't forget that many of the entries will be featured on the SCC website and social media pages. This is a prize as well!
Get your wheels rolling and your camera shooting!!
Questions regarding entry? Please email SCCwebdesigner@gmail.com