Calendar Photo Contest

Beginning November 15th, 14 photos will be selected to make up this year’s calendar.

(One for each month, one for the cover and one for the 2024 page)

This year’s theme for the calendar will be “Sunsets of the Sierra”

This year’s calendar will be distributed to all Inyo Register subscribers as an insert in the Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022 newspaper. This Calendar Photo Contest is brought to you by The Inyo Register and the Mammoth Times

Rules for the contest:

• Photos can be submitted by any resident of Inyo or Mono County.

• Each person can submit up to 2 photos.

• Photographs must be in digital format. Photos are accepted by one of the following methods:

• Via email sent to comp@inyoregister.com, or

• In person on a flash drive so we can copy the image

• No print or film submissions will be accepted

• All entries must include the following information: Entrant’s full name, city of residence, phone number, email address and the photo’s description including the location and date it was taken.

• The photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the Contest entrant. By entering the Contest, entrant represents, acknowledges and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the photograph.

• The photograph must be scenes shot in nature of a place located within Inyo or Mono county.

• All photos must be horizontal. No vertical photos will be considered for this Contest. All digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller, must be in JPEG or .jpg format, and must be at least 8.5” deep x 11” wide and a minimum of 200 dpi.

• The entries will be judged in accordance with the Judging Criteria, as defined below. All entries must be submitted and received by November 12, 2022 at 23:59:00 local time.

• Judging consists of two (2) rounds of evaluation and all entries will be anonymous throughout the judging process. In Round One, each judge will individually score and then select the fourteen (14) highest scoring entries from among all eligible entries based on the following criteria (“Judging Criteria”): (1) Represents Our Inyo County/Wildlife of the Sierra - up to 10 as a high score; (2) Photographic quality – up to 10 as a high score. The entries selected in Round One will proceed to Round Two. In Round Two, the Judges will collectively select the twelve highest scoring photos, one for each month of the year based on entries with the highest combined score. The two lowest scoring photos (from the final 14) will be used in the two other locations within the publication. In the event of a tie, the tied entries will be re-scored by the Judges, as necessary, to come up with the fourteen needed photos. Winners will be chosen on or about November 15, 2022. Decisions of the Judges are final.

• By entering the Contest, all entrants grant an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to The Inyo Register, to reproduce, distribute, display, sell and create derivative works of all the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the 2023 Calendar and promotion of the Contest, the 2023 Calendar and in any media now or hereafter known, including, but not limited to: The Inyo Register; publication of a book featuring select entries in the Contest; publication in other Inyo Register publications and/ or magazines or online photo galleries highlighting entries or winners of the Contest. Display or publication of any entry on an Inyo Register website does not indicate the entrant will be selected as a winner. The Inyo Register will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use. Additionally, by entering, each entrant grants to The Inyo Register the unrestricted right to use all statements made in connection with the Contest, and pictures or likenesses of Contest entrants, or choose not to do so, at their sole discretion. The Inyo Register will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use.