announces a
Bicycle Photo Contest and Exhibit
for Chicago and suburbs.
The juried competition offers $1,000 in cash
prizes.
In addition, winners will have their photo(s) published
–with a photo credit–in the forthcoming guidebook,
Where to Bike Chicago,
as well as on the book’s accompanying website.
Grand Prize (one winner): $300 and publication
First Place (two winners): $200 and publication
Second Place (three winners): $100 and publication
Honorable mention: publication
There is no fee to enter.
Deadline: July 15, 2010
Subject matter: Photographs should exemplify the joy of
bicycling in and around Chicago. They must depict at least one
person with a bicycle. Subjects riding a bike must be wearing a
helmet. Subjects sitting on a bike, walking a bike, or standing or
sitting next to a bike should not be wearing a helmet so their
faces are more visible. The photos must be taken on one of the
following bike paths or trails, and the entry must identify
approximately where on the path or trail each photo was taken.
Adult Category: Arie Crown Trails, Buffalo Creek Forest
Preserve, Chicago Lakefront Path (South Side only), Elston Ave.
(south of Wilson Ave.), Erie Lackawanna Trail, Great Western Trail,
Greene Valley Forest Preserve, Illinois & Michigan Canal Trail,
Illinois Prairie Path, Joliet Iron Works Heritage Trail, Joliet
Junction Trail, Major Taylor Trail, Hawk Hollow Forest Preserve,
Mallard Lake Forest Preserve, Palos Forest Preserve Trails, Thorn
Creek Trail (South) & Sauk Trail Woods, and West Branch DuPage
River Trail.
Kids Category (must be your own
child): Columbus Park, Dan Ryan Woods, Greenbelt Forest
Preserve (North Chicago), Independence Grove (Libertyville), Lake
Arlington Park (Arlington Heights), North Shore Channel, Old School
Forest Preserve (Libertyville), Oz Park, Promontory Point, Thorn
Creek Trail North (Lansing), and Washington Square.
Format: Each entry must be a sharp, crisp, high-quality
digital jpg image - 300 dpi at 4x6 inches, or larger. Email images
to Greg Borzo, the author of
Where to Bike
Chicago, at
gborzo@comcast.net. Each individual may enter
up to four images. Photographers must provide their name, address
and phone number.
Judging: A panel of judges will evaluate each photo for
composition, clarity, technical merit, artistic expression, how
well it reflects the joy of bicycling and how well it depicts the
character of the particular path or trail photographed. The judges’
decisions shall be final.
Entries: Photographs remain the property of the
photographer. By submitting an image, the entrant warrants that the
photo is an original work and that he or she took the photo and has
the right to enter the photo in this contest. He or she also grants
Where to Bike Chicago and its
publisher, Bicycling Australia, unlimited, nonexclusive usage
rights, including the right to publish, display, reproduce and/or
sell the photo in print or electronic form. The publisher plans,
for example, to create a traveling photo exhibit of the winners for
display in galleries, bike shops, libraries, bike shows and other
venues and events.
Prizes: The Prizes will be awarded at a
Where to Bike Chicago book launch soon after
the book is published at the end of 2010.
Advocacy: A significant portion of the profit from the sales
of each copy of
Where to Bike
Chicago will be donated to World Bicycle Relief, a
not-for-profit founded by Chicago-based SRAM that provides
independence and livelihood through “The Power of Bicycles”.
For more information: see
www.WhereToBikeChicago.com
(going live soon) or email Greg Borzo at
gborzo@comcast.net. Good luck!
Bicycling Australia:
Where to Bike
Chicago, which will be available in November 2010, is
being published by Bicycling Australia, one of the world’s leading
publishers of cycling magazines and books, including Bicycling
Australia magazine, Mountain Biking Australia magazine, Bicycling
Buyers Guide and Bicycling Yearbook. Popular in Australia and New
Zealand, Bicycling Australia’s “Where to Ride” series of cycling
guidebooks is expanding into the United Kingdom and United States
as “Where to Bike” guidebooks.
Founded in 1989, Bicycling Australia sells a wide range of cycling
books, DVDs, posters, clothing and gifts at
www.BicyclingAustralia.com.
It is heavily involved in cycling advocacy and is a founding member
of the Cycling Promotion Fund.