The 2018 California Trout Photo Contest is now accepting submissions July 15 through Aug. 31! Share your best photos of California’s rivers, streams and creeks and your angling experiences. Photos can include fish, anglers or others enjoying California waters or be more scenic in nature. Enter today for a chance to win some great gear and be featured on the CalTrout website, social media channels and in issues of The Current.
Eleven winners total will be selected. One Grand Prize Winner, one People’s Choice Award and nine Best Photo winners.
Need some inspiration? Check out last year’s winning photos here.
Prizes awarded:
GRAND PRIZE – 1 Winner
Photo featured on home page of CalTrout website, one-year CalTrout membership, Sage Foundation rod and 2200 Series reel with 20 lb. Rio line ($575 value).
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD – 1 Winner
Photo featured on home page of CalTrout website, one-year CalTrout membership, CalTrout embroidered Patagonia Refugio backpack, CalTrout neck gaitor, and Echo Carbon XL rod ($300 value).
BEST PHOTOS – Nine Winners
Photo included on Caltrout.org photo contest page, one-year CalTrout membership, Set of CalTrout native fish pint glasses and playing cards, and CalTrout trucker hat ($115 value).
Contest Rules and Guidelines:
Once the submission period has ended, CalTrout will select 25 finalists. From those finalists, our members and social media followers will vote to determine the People’s Choice Award winner and 9 Best Photo winners. CalTrout judges will select the Grand Prize winner.
Judging Criteria: Photos will be judged on how well they depict the spirit of California waters and/or the sport of fly-fishing as well as overall artistic merit (lighting, color, composition, etc).
All photos must in some way be related to California rivers, creeks or streams and the activities around them. Ideally, photos should have a horizontal format.
Maximum number of entries: Ten per individual.
All submissions must be submitted using the contest online entry form. (This will be available when the submission period begins on July 17.)
Photographs must be in digital format.
Only online entries will be eligible. No print or film submissions will be accepted.
The photograph need not be taken with a digital camera; scans of negatives, transparencies, or photographic prints are acceptable.
Digital files must be high resolution, 300ppi, file size 3MB or larger (at close to actual size) and must be in .jpg format.
All entries must be received by midnight PST, Aug. 31, 2018.
If a person is in the photo, you must submit a signed model release for each person depicted in the image.
Please read our Full Contest Rules before entering. If you have further questions please email photos@caltrout.org. Photos must be submitted using our online form. Photos emailed to photos@caltrout.org will not be considered.
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