Announcement: Spring Photography Contest

The Wide Island View is doing it again!  Our Hiroshima friends are holding another contest: spring photography.  This time around, they’re partnering up with White Rabbit Press (you know, the JLPT flashcard guys) to give away sweet prizes like kanji posters and study materials.  If you’ve ever taken an awesome photo and also wanted to study Japanese, this contest is totally for you.

The contest ends on May 15th, so snap to it!*  How’s this for a quick turnaround: the winning photographs will be announced on May 24th.  Near-instant gratification!  Hip hip, hooray!

Here are the rules I purloined straight from their website:

The Official Rule List — Know and Obey

• Limit of one photo submission per person.
• Photos must be recieved by May 15, 2010.
• Wide Island reserves the right to reject any photo we feel is objectionable.
• Judging will be done by the editors and three other appointed judges, none of whom submitted photos.
• Photos will be given a score from each judge.  Winners will be those with the highest composite score.
• Photos must be from Japan, taken within the last six months, and be no less than 1200 pixels.
• Needless to say, this is about Spring, so non-Spring photos will be rejected.
• Photo submissions are open to anyone worldwide as long as they meet the requirements listed above.
• Photo must be taken by the person who is submitting the photo.
• We reserve the right to disqualify any photos that we think are digitally altered.  Meaning that we’re perfectly fine with you cropping and doing color tweaks to your photos, but please don’t copy and paste a picture of a panda sitting on top of Tokyo Tower into your picture.
• Your photos are your own work.  We reserve no rights to your photos whatsoever.  We only ask for the right to post them on our page to showcase how awesome they are.  Which we kind of figure you’re OK with as you submitted your photo to a contest.

You can check out the submissions for the Winter Photography Contest here and follow easy links to find the winning photos.  (What, did you expect us to draw you a map?  Use your noodle.)  There were entries from current, past and private ALTs from at least ten prefectures, though none from our great prefecture.  Since Joel McCain already informed us that spring in Kyoto is the best ever, We The Staff have decided that this Hiroshima-based springtime photography should be dominated by the good residents of Kyoto.

* There’s definitely a pun intended there, but we realize it’s a little obscure.  We will not apologize.

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