Urban Nomad
Where the hell are you?
What are you doing there? Did you bike or drive? Fly? Swim? Did your best friend come along? Your lover? Your Boston Terrier? Did you bring your TeePee? Sleeping bag or max out your credit card on a five star hotel?
Over these next three weeks,
we want to track your Urban Nomad comings and goings. Take us along with your very best analog images. There are three different themes to which you can shoot and submit your images each week:
Schedule
Each week begins at midnight (EST, New York) and ends the following Sunday at midnight. Weekly winners will be announced the following Wednesdays after timeline closes. The contest will run from August 21th through September 14th, 2008. Each of the three weeks will be judged independently, and work with the following dates:
Week 1:
Thursday, August 21st until Sunday, August 31st
Week 2:
Monday, Sept. 1th until Monday, Sept. 8th
Week 3:
Tuesday, Sept. 9th until Sunday, Sept. 14th
Legal
Please read our legal guidelines before submitting your images.
We encourage you to review our Terms and Conditions of Use , because any changes are binding on you!
General Guidelines
- Employees of the Lomographic Society and Urban Outfitters Inc, and their subsidiaries and affiliates are not eligible for entry.
- Only original photographs for which the participant possesses all necessary rights will be accepted as valid entries.
- All entrants are responsible for ensuring their submission is in compliance with the legal requirements of their country.
- Winning images will be chosen jointly by Lomography & Urban Outfitters Prizes will be sent out AFTER the contest has ended. Please allow up to 6 weeks for prizes to be mailed.
- Winners are responsible for any local import duties or fees connected to the receipt of their prize.
Camera Guidelines
For this competition, your images must have been shot with an analog (film) camera. That’s it – any camera that takes good ‘ol film – which has to be developed – will work just fine.
Each week has a specific "featured" Lomographic camera(s), as listed below. 51% of all weekly prizes will be awarded to submissions in this featured camera category. All other analog camera submissions are also valid and will account for the other 49% of prizes awarded each week.
So, your chances of winning a prize camera and getting into the running for the GRAND PRIZE will increase greatly if you upload images from the featured cameras. They are:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Image Guidelines
At least one side (be it the width or height) of your image files must be 1800 pixels or more in length and the file size must not exceed 3MB. Please do not merely resize and enlarge your shots, as we’ll notice the drop in quality and will have no choice but to kick them to the curb. Please keep it as real as possible, too – a little cropping and brightening is okay, but leave out the crazy Photoshop tricks. Some examples:
- An image with the size 1800x1200 pixels works (as one side is at least 1800 pixels long)
- An image with the size 2000x2000 pixels works (as both sides are at least 1800 pixels long)
- An image with the size 1600x1200 pixels does not work (as both sides are smaller than the minimum requirement of 1800 pixels)
A maximum of five images can be submitted to each theme every week. After the week closes, and the weekly prizes are awarded, you can submit five more images the following week.
Please note: Please save your original negatives or prints! If you win the Grand Prize, we’ll require a hi-resolution scan of the original media in order to produce your custom wallpaper product.