Calling all amateur, professional, or hobbyist photographers who attended the 2nd Annual Multi-Forum Mt. Baker Meet & Cruise on September 8th: If you are interested in having your pictures featured in an article covering this meet & drive that will be published in one of the leading spo-com magazines in North America (both in quality and readership circulation #'s), then read on.

I am looking for pictures that highlight a few things in particular (Not every photo needs to incorporate every element, just one):

●The wide variety of cars of all makes, models, and price ranges.
●The amount of cars at the meet. (Basically, group shots of both similar cars or group shots of a diverse crowd of cars are highly preferred over shots featuring only one car. Filling the frame with cars is key here, not looking for shots of a long line of cars thats 7/8ths background/sky.)
●The scenery while heading up Highways 9 and 542, especially the roads and greenery past Glacier, WA; at Heather Meadows, and the road to Artist's Point. I'm not looking, however, for any "just scenery" pictures.

A few guidelines about the photos themselves:

●Anyone with a good camera and basic skills are welcome to submit pictures, however,
●Each person is allowed to submit a maximum of 5 photos so that the spread will have several 'featured' photographers, so choose your submissions carefully. Any emails received with more than 5 attachments will be immediately deleted.
●Lastly, the five photos that you submit may not be published in any manner whether in print or online on forums, blogs, websites, or in online photo albums such as Photobucket, Myspace, Facebook, etc. If none of your photos are chosen for print, you may distribute them however you like once you are notified by me. If any photos are chosen for print, you'll receive further instructions via e-mail. (Rest assured that you'll retain ownership of the pictures, and can do as you'd like with them after the mag hits newsstands). And of course, you're free to do anything with the pictures you don't submit.

Photos may be submitted to my email at samhi.si@gmail.com and should be of high quality, in color, with no editing, added borders, or names - basically anything besides basic post-processing. Please include the word "Baker" in the subject, and include your full name, forum visited, and screenname.

Thanks for your time and sorry about the lengthy legal mumbo-jumbo.

Sam High

 

so if you choose my photos - I give up the rights to those 5 pics...is there $$ involved? Or is this more of an 'oppurtunity' to get my name out there as a photographer?

thanks - and can't wait for the drive!

 

I figured I should bump the thread after the drive, and answer the questions for others who might have the same questions - sorry about not seeing this reply sooner. I've had about 2 dozen Baker cruise related posts to try to juggle.

There was a HUGE sh*tstorm over on NASIOC regarding this subject, so let me throw out a link to that post if you're concerned about this stuff from a money perspective.

If you want to skip that post I'll just lay out a few things... first off, i screwed up on the subject titles and the way I worded the first post I made here (and on other forums) was very poor. I've edited the post, but I can't edit the subject title. Ignore the word "Pro", please.

-Nobody that helped set up the event is out to make any money in any way from the cruise, pictures, or article. H&R was kind enough to help out in a big way with a lot of the fairly minimal expenses plus the delicious donuts.

-The magazine that the story and pictures will be appearing in is not paying me, the pro photographer who came all the way from Portland just because he wanted to enjoy the event, or any of the photographers submitting pictures to me.

-I am not a rich guy - just a 20 year old student - and I can only afford to pay the pro photographer.

-You are not giving up the rights to your photos if you submit them to me. They'll still be your property, but I do not want to use pictures that are pasted all over the forums becuase who wants to buy a magazine and see the same pictures they saw 3 months ago on the internet for free? That's why I ask to withhold making them public until after the magazine does.

In other words, this is an opportunity for people to share their pictures with others in a much larger way than the internet, and sorry, you won't be getting any money if your pictures get published.

If you have any other questions, you might want to give the NASIOC thread a skim, and if that doesnt answer it, then feel free to reply here or PM me.

If somehow all this crap hasnt scared you off, send me your pics! I'll be taking submissions for at least a week.