ELIGIBILITY: Simply send in your favorite original digital photograph of a bee, butterfly, bat, hummingbird or any other pollinator caught in the act of pollinating!

PHOTO FORMAT: JPEG Electronic file

ENTRY FEE: No fee

ENTRY ADDRESS: info@pollinator.org with "Submit My Photos" as the subject.

ENTRY DEADLINE: October 1, 2010

PRIZES: The 2 winning submissions will receive a free camera (courtesy of William Crandall)! See them below. We will display the winning picture on the front page of pollinator.org and our Facebook and Twitter pages.
The top 10 winners will recieve A World of Pollinators poster and have their photos posted on pollinator.org.

Contest Rules

1. The contest is open to students in high school in North America.  Employees of the Pollinator Partnership and its contest sponsor are excluded from this contest.
2. The prize is not redeemable in cash and must be accepted as awarded.
3. Contest judges decisions are final.
4. By entering a submission to the contest, the winner authorizes the use of contest submission for promotion and/or advertising purposes in any manner and in any medium which the Pollinator Partnership may deem appropriate.
5. One entry per person with up to two photos submitted.
6. Digitally altering in programs such as Adobe Photoshop are discouraged.
7. The meta-data for each image should be on the back of the image support.
8. Emphasis will be placed on clarity and on the images ability to iilustrate pollinators and their interactions with plants.
9. One paragraph of supporting text (in English) can be provided to explain how and where the picture was taken.
   

Prize 1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ8 Digital Camera (Black) with Basic Accessory Kit

•12.1 Megapixel •Ultra Compact 25mm Lens and 16X Intelligent Zoom Easily bring your images closer without losing picture quality in an ultra compact camera •3.0" LCD Control all of your camera functions on a large easy to read LCD screen •Sonic Speed AF Quickly focus in on the action as it is taking place

Prize 2 Fujifilm FinePix JX250 Digital Camera (Black) with Case and 4 MB

14-megapixel resolution for large, photo-quality prints Capture 720p HD movies with sound Fujinon 5x wide-angle (28mm-140mm) optical zoom lens Tracking Auto Focus Smile and Blink Detection; Face Detection and Automatic Red-eye Removal