Dan Ng's photo of Bryce Canyon
National Park won second place in the wildland and
prescribed fire category of the 2008 contest. NPS
photo by Dan Ng.
The 2010 NPS Fire and Aviation Photo Contest is drawing to a close, but you still have time to get your entries in - they're due by Friday, March 19th.
All details related to the photo contest, as well as the entry form, are located at http://www.nps.gov/fire/public/pub_photocontest.cfm
The entry categories are:
- Aviation
- Fire Apparatus (e.g. engines, ATVs, other fire vehicles)
- Fire Staff in Action
- Public Interaction / Media
- Structural Fire
- Wildland and Prescribed Fire
- Wildland-Urban Interface
- Other
You can enter as many photos from calendar year 2009 as you like, but please keep in mind that the subject matter must directly relate to wildland fire, structural fire, or aviation management activities or programs.
Here are a few other rules to keep in mind as you comb through your 2009 photos for just the right entry:
- Uploaded photos or images (jpg, tif, png) must be large enough in size and high enough in resolution to enlarge to 8.5" x 11" without pixelization - low quality images will be disqualified.
- Photos should not be resized, optimized, or
have had a digital filter applied.
- Exception: Please note that if you upload an exceedingly large image (e.g. over 7.0 MB) your photo may not go through. You can try again during a less busy server period or resize your image to approximately 6.5 mb and it should go through.
- Photo must portray proper safety equipment
and procedures - e.g. proper PPE - gloves, no
sleeves rolled up, no tennis shoes, etc.
- If proper safety equipment and procedures are not portrayed, the photo will be disqualified.
- The photo must have been taken during the previous calendar year in an NPS area, or of NPS employee(s). No group people photos (e.g. mugging for the camera photos) - but photos may be shots of multiple people working.
If you have any questions regarding the contest, please email FA_Photo_Contest@nps.gov (Fire & Aviation Annual Photo Contest for those in the Lotus Notes directory).
Thank you to all of you who have already entered
the contest and we hope to see many more entries in
the next week.