Hull Media has announced the Most Transporting Photo Contest, a promotion that encourages members to share their most compelling travel photos on WereYouThere. Entries will be judged on the overall quality, originality and creativity of the photo and accompanying caption. One Grand Prize winner will receive a 16GB iPod Nano; three First Prize winners will each receive an 8GB iPod Nano. Register at the website below to enter, then upload a travel photo along with a descriptive caption of least 100 words. Each submission must be the entrant’s own original work and may not have been published commercially elsewhere. Multiple submissions are allowed, provided each is unique. The contest continues through to Sunday, 14 March.

Website: WereYouThere Photo Contest

Hull Press Release

Every Picture Tells a Story: WereYouThere’s Most Transporting Photo Contest

MILL VALLEY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Hull Media, Inc. announces the Most Transporting Photo Contest, a promotion that encourages members to share their most compelling travel photos on WereYouThere. “We all have stories and photos that deserve a larger audience,” says Founder and CEO Jonathan Hull. “With the launch of our first contest, we intend to bring more of these experiences to light where they can be enjoyed and passed on, be they moving, humorous or just memorably offbeat.”

Entries will be judged on the overall quality, originality and creativity of the photo and accompanying caption. One Grand Prize winner will receive a 16GB iPod Nano; three First Prize winners will each receive an 8GB iPod Nano. Register at http://www.wereyouthere.com/contests/travel.php to enter, then upload a travel photo along with a descriptive caption of least 100 words. Each submission must be the entrant’s own original work and may not have been published commercially elsewhere. Multiple submissions are allowed, provided each is unique. The contest continues through Sunday, March 14. “WereYouThere was created in the belief that there is no better way for us to understand each other and our world than by sharing the experiences that define us,” says Jonathan. “And who knows? By sharing a travel photo now buried on your hard drive, you might just form a connection that lasts a lifetime or grant someone a transforming glimpse of a moment they would never otherwise experience.”

Enter WereYouThere’s Most Transporting Photo Contest
http://www.wereyouthere.com/contests/travel.php

Founded in 2008, WereYouThere is a social archive that brings people together through shared experiences, from the places we’ve traveled to the events that shape us. Together, these stories, photos and videos form an important conversation about both our lives and our collective history. WereYouThere encourages noncommercial use of the content posted by its members and hopes to provide a valuable resource to students, researchers and historians.

Jonathan Hull spent ten years at TIME magazine, serving as bureau chief in both Jerusalem and Chicago and winning the Society of Professional Journalists’ prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award for magazine journalism. He is also the author of the bestselling novel Losing Julia and The Distance from Normandy. Hull Media, Inc. is a privately-owned corporation based in Mill Valley, California.

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PAYMENT OR PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Enter the WereYouThere Most Transporting Travel Photo Contest by 11:59 Midnight Pacific Time March 14, 2010. Entrants must be U.S. residents 18 or older at time of entry. Professional photographers are not eligible to enter or win. Entrants must have all necessary rights, including intellectual property and publicity rights, to their photos. There is no limit to the number of entries, but each entry must be unique. Contest is subject to the Official Rules. Contest Rules. Contest void where prohibited by law.

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