Arizona Parks and Recreation Association’s

Leave No Child Inside Photo Contest

Leave No Child Inside is the theme of the 2008 Arizona Parks and Recreation Annual Conference.  The conference activities and programs will educate, share, celebrate and expand on all aspects of understanding people’s connection with nature.  The best way we can think to learn about Arizona’s collective meaning of Leave No Child Inside is to see it in pictures.

Submit your photos and join us at the conference!

Categories:

Urban Experience: Connections with nature don’t have to happen on summer vacations or weekend trips to distant places.  It happens everyday in the smallest of ways – you may even drive by it on your commute to work. 

Best Moment on the Job: Long hours, tight budgets, less than market pay?  Maybe, but we are all here for a bigger reason.  Share that great moment when you truly understand why you are in the Parks and Recreation field.

Leave No Inner Child Inside: You know exactly what we’re talking about.  Do you have a photo that captures when your inner child came out?  It happens a lot outside!

Kids and Critters:   The media may want us to think critters are intimidating but we bet your photos are more inspiring than scary.

The Brave New World:  Understanding the problem is just as important as understanding the solution.  Show us the photos that explain what children and society are plugged into today.    

Most Unique Experience:  Here is your chance to surprise us with what we never saw coming!   

Prizes: check back more are being added!!

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Arizona State Park annual passes

Recognition - Certificate of recognition, posted on the Arizona Parks and Recreation Association website, a statewide press release and potentially featured in state and national promotions for the Arizona Parks and Recreation Association and members.

Guidelines to submit photos to the contest:

All photographs must be taken in Arizona after January 1, 2000.

Prizes will be awarded for the best photos according to the categories listed above. A panel of judges of APRA members and artistic professionals will choose contest winners.

Each participant may enter up to three submissions.

Print photographs must be 4 inches by 6 inches and may be either color or black and white. (Arizona State Parks requests that all contest participants retain their photo negatives, as winners may be asked to send their negatives to Arizona State Parks for reproduction.) Submitted photos will not be returned.

All digital images, whether submitted by Internet (digital file), or on CD, must be in a high-resolution rgb jpeg format (MINIMUM of 1800 pixels x 1500 pixels; 6" x 5" in either direction @ 300 dpi or ppi). There is no file size limitation to the original digital image; however digital image files submitted via Internet may not exceed 2 MB.

Enclose the following in-

formation for each

submission: photographer's

name, address, phone

number and e-mail along with

the name, location and a short

description.  Winners may be

asked  to pose for a photograph

with their submission, and these

photographs may be

used by Arizona Parks and

Recreation Association for

promotional activities

including use on television.

All entries must be

accompanied by photo

release form.

All entries must be

postmarked by May 1, 2008

and sent to:

APRA

1422 N. 44^th St., Ste 211

Phoenix, AZ 85008

Attn:  Photo Contest

Or e-mailed to:

apraphotocontest@gmail.com