Announcing The 1st Annual Genre Traveler Photo Contest
Where do science fiction, fantasy and horror fans like to travel? We’ll find out, as The 1st Annual Genre Traveler Photo Contest gets underway.
Organized by The Genre Traveler, the online travel resource for science fiction, fantasy and horror fans, the contest will run from March 15 through May 31, 2007. Photographers of all skill levels — from amateur to professional — are invited to enter their photographs of science fiction, fantasy and horror destinations. Three winners, one from each of the destination categories — science fiction, fantasy and horror — will win a cash prize and have their winning entries featured in the upcoming The Genre Traveler 2008 Calendar.
Contest Benefits Charity
Even better, The Genre Traveler will donate 15% of all funds raised by the contest to one of five charities: The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists, Clarion West, The Nature Conservancy, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, and The Planetary Society. Anyone can help choose which charity will benefit by voting in a special Yahoo! Groups poll now through March 31, 2007. For more information about the charities, visit Photo Contest/Charity Choice
Celebrity Judges Choose Winners
Six genre-celebrity judges have volunteered to help choose the three grand prizewinners in the contest:
- Bob Eggleton, award-winning fantasy and science fiction artist;
- Chuck Williams, horror actor (Dark Walker, Bubba Ho-Tep), director and producer;
- Paula Burr, professional photographer of “dark subjects”;
- Victor Ciccarelli, professional photographer specializing in fantasy images;
- Bill Shafer, owner and operator of Hyaena Gallery in Burbank, Calif.; and
- John Pelico, professional designer and illustrator, and creator of KillerPumpkins.com.
What Is a Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Related Destination?
“Well, to some degree that’s up to the photographers,” says C.S. Pothitt, writer, editor and publisher of The Genre Traveler. “For science fiction destinations it might be a futuristic setting or theme-park attraction; for fantasy destinations it might be a Nursery Rhyme-themed mini golf course or New Zealand landscape used in The Lord of the Rings movies; and for horror destinations it could be a haunted attraction or cemetery.”
Entry is $5 per photograph and multiple entries are welcome. All entrants should be sure to read the rules and requirements and obtain a model release for photographs involving recognizable people. For more information about the contest, visit Photo Contest.
About The Genre Traveler
Founded in 2005, The Genre Traveler is published by C.S. Pothitt three times a year in PDF format. It covers travel destinations for science fiction, fantasy and horror fans, including theme parks, movie and book locations, art shows, theatrical performances and more. A blog keeps readers up-to-date with posts up to four times a week. Pothitt has been writing professionally for more than 15 years, editing numerous corporate newsletters and magazines, one of which won three industry awards. With a background in biology and journalism, she has plied her craft for such organizations as City of Hope National Medical Center, Blue Shield of California and Genome.gov.
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