THE RULES:Entry divisions are adult and youth.

Adult:• Categories are: People, Sports, Manmade, Land/Seascape, Animals, Flora, Travel, and Open.• Prints may be between 5x7 and 11x14 and must be mounted

on a thick 11x14 board without a mat. Images may be color or b/w. No slides are allowed.

• Photos submitted in previous years are ineligible.• Each submission must be accompanied by a $5 check, cash, or

money order made out to New Times.• New Times is not responsible for damage or loss of entry.• Submissions are due in the New Times offi ce, 1010 Marsh St. in

SLO, by 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18. A completed entry form must be attached to the back of each mounted entry.

• Model release forms may be required.• All photos must be the original, creative work of the submit-

ting photographer.• All photographs must be taken on the Central Coast (Guadalupe

to Ragged Point)—except for submissions to Travel, an open category for photos taken anywhere else.

• Photos can’t be returned, but may be picked up at the New Times offi ce between Dec. 1 and Dec. 29.

• Entry in the contest constitutes permission to use the photo in the paper, online, and for display.

• All entrants are asked to submit a high-quality digital fi le of their image (jpeg format, at least 300 dpi) to photocontest@newtimesslo.com or on a cd attached to the back of their entry. Winners will be required to do so. Please include photographer’s name and entry name with each digital submission

• Judges have the right to reassign categories for mislabeled or fi led photos at their discretion.

Youth:• This is an Open category. Photos can be of any subject of the

entrant’s choosing, but must have been taken on the Central Coast.

• Entrants must be 13 or younger as of Oct. 18, 2010. Winners’ legal guardians will be required to sign a release form.

• All other rules from the adult categories apply.

All entry money goes to prizes. The winning entries will be published in the Nov. 4 issue of New Times, in an online gal-lery and included in a photo exhibition evening on Nov. 3 at Steynberg Gallery. The winning images will be displayed for the month of November in Steynberg Gallery.

ENTRY FORM (Forms are also available online at newtimesslo.com)Photographer’s name _________________________________________________________________________________

Address __________________________________________________ Telephone: Day ____________ Evening ______________

Email address ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Entry name _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Photo Category: People___ Sports___ Manmade___ Land/Seascape___ Animals___ Flora___ Travel___ Open ____

Photo Division: Adult ______ Youth ______All entrants are asked to submit a high-quality digital fi le of their image (jpeg format, at least 300 dpi) to photocontest@newtimesslo.com

or on a cd attached to the back of their entry. Winners will be required to do so. Include photographer’s name and entry name with each digital submission.

cash prizes

Do you have a winning image?

Be sure to enter it in New Times’ 15th annual photo contest. Winners get published in our annual Winning Images issue.

Entries are due by 5 p.m. on Oct. 18.